PROSCENIUM 17 Dec 2020 game

[ridethetalk]

Srsly? PROSCENIUM??? Common???

[mkenuk]

Common enough, I would have thought, for anyone who has ever been involved with the theatre in either an amateur or professional capacity.
I'm surprised so few got it.

[Greynomad]

I'm with you RideTheTalk.

[Jacki]

Never ever heard of it. Double drama major.
Sorry but that word is not common.

[Dragonman]

I'm with MK on this

[Scouser1952]

As MK suggested known to those involved with theatre, professional & amateur. Well that excludes a huge number of us including me. Stalls, balcony, stage, box office etc. These are common. Proscenium nah!

[ridethetalk]

I've been a subscriber to the MTC (Melbourne Theatre Company) for many years over the course of my life and have never heard of this. Perhaps if I was involved in building stages I might have heard of it but again, common, I think not...

[les303]

Almost sounds like something rude to me.
Definitely rude to class it as common

[blackrockrose]

Definitely common as far as I am concerned.

[TRex]

The OED places proscenium in its Frequency Band 4 and gives the following words as examples of that band: overhang, life support, rewrite, nutshell, candlestick, rodeo, embouchure, insectivore

I think the first time I encountered the word was in my mid-teens whilst working on a theatre production. It is stuck with me even though it is not a word I use.

[Alan W]

Obviously proscenium is not known by quite a few players, so it fails to meet the criteria for being treated as a common word. Like many specialist terms, it's well known to some, but quite unfamiliar to others.

I'll make it rare and drop it as a puzzle seed word. Which means in practice that we won't see it again, unless we ever go in for puzzles with more than 10 letters. It certainly won't appear in a 7-by-many puzzle, as it has 10 different letters. Bye bye proscenium.

[ridethetalk]

Thanks Alan...