staging
/ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn."
- "As a movie production it beats the book. Colin Campbell is given the credit of having staged the production yet to [sic] one familiar with the book and Beach’s style of description and love of adventure, can readily see that Beach had an important hand in the staging of his novel before the camera."
- "Akins’s prominence as a playwright would later become significant to Wharton in the staging of her novel The Old Maid."
- "Arguing against the staging of Demons in 1913, Gorky insists that the novel—even more so than The Brothers Karamazov, which the theater successfully staged two years earlier—is “a dark spot of malevolent misanthropy against the bright background of Russian literature.” [...] / Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko pushed back, arguing that in Demons Dostoevsky depicts the inner truth of Russian life and that, contrary to Gorky's argument, the staging of the novel would result in getting rid of “everything that is superficial (and forced)” in the novel, bringing out its inner essence."
- "The movie's staging has the actors facing forward, as if playing before a live audience, in the style of fifties television situation comedies."
- "This, he argues, was in turn especially strongly shaped by imported British theatre traditions, particularly the use of the proscenium arch stage which was radically different from the open staging of precolonial and early colonial India and produced and emphasis on frontality in theatre productions that is now deeply structured into Bollywood films, most notably in their smile-at-the-camera song-and-dance sequences."