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In a traditional theatre, a curtain hangs across the front of the stage. The proscenium is the part of that stage that sits in front of the curtain — the bit closest to the audience. People also talk about a proscenium arch: the big frame around that opening, like a picture frame the actors appear inside. A “proscenium stage” is the common kind of theatre where the audience faces that frame, as opposed to a round stage with people on all sides. The word is specialist. Actors, directors, and theatre students use it; ordinary talk just says “the front of the stage.” Though actually, the Greek pieces mean “in front of the scene building.” The skene was the hut behind the actors in old Greek theatre, and there were no curtains like ours. Today’s theatres borrowed the old name for a slightly different shape.
台口。台灣劇場也常說「鏡框式舞台」指這種有台口拱門的舞台。
組成From Latin proscaenium, “in front of the scenery,” from Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskēnion): πρό (pró, “before”) + σκηνή (skēnē, “scene building”).
同家族的字
- sceneboth go back to Greek skēnē, the scene building
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prosceniumnoun/pɹəʊˈsiː.ni.əm/
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The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
- It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.
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The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
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The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
- The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).
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A proscenium arch.
- Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。