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Stage business   /steɪdʒ bˈɪznəs/   Listen
Stage business

noun
1.
Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect.  Synonyms: business, byplay.






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"Stage business" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed, and then came the first rehearsal. This, of course, could be little more than a reading of the parts before Mr. Mann, with the latter to advise them as to elocution and stage business. But Bobby declared she had been practicing walking like a boy and had succeeded in copying Short and ...
— The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross - Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause • Gertrude W. Morrison

... quarter whence these sounds proceeded; and that every time she did so, the umbrella broke out afresh. Once, he thought that a peculiarly shaped hat in the same corner was not wholly unknown to him; but, being occupied with his share of the stage business, he bestowed no great attention upon this circumstance, and it had quite vanished from his memory by ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... stage-settings advanced rapidly to greater and greater degrees of naturalness. Acting, however, was still largely conventional; for the "apron" stage survived, with its semicircle of footlights, and every important piece of stage business had to be done within ...
— The Theory of the Theatre • Clayton Hamilton



Words linked to "Stage business" :   acting, performing, byplay, schtik, shtik, playing, shtick, schtick, playacting, business



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