Stagecraft

Definition

stagecraft /'ste:dʒkrɑ:ft; US -'kræft / n [U] ျပဇာတ္တင္ဆက္မႈ ပညာ။

Examples

1. ‘The fact that neither hall has an orchestra pit created unique problems of stagecraft for the directors.’
2. ‘We Westerners love confronting the inadequacy of our rationalism and Amagatu capitalises on that
3. giving us also polished performances and exquisite stagecraft to hold our attention when our metaphysical appreciation wanes.’
4. ‘Scientific presentations
5. whether for a gathering of colleagues or a general audience
6. benefit from techniques of stagecraft and rhetoric.’
7. ‘For the past 13 weeks the 10 students doing the course have been studying performance and stagecraft
8. which takes in all aspects of performing
9. under the direction of teacher Virginia Norrie.’
10. ‘Crazy's uninhibited style of theatrical stagecraft was in evidence even then: he started his Savannah turn by emerging from a big dustbin.’
11. ‘The stagecraft from the fine ensemble cast is excellent
12. especially in the face of such counter-intuitive direction.’
13. ‘Armed with his banjo
14. tinwhistle
15. poetry
16. stagecraft and his magnificent baritone voice
17. Tommy has been mesmerising audiences for more than forty years.’
18. ‘In the three offerings this reviewer took in
19. there was ample variety and stagecraft to hold one's attention
20. even when the musical interest was less than compelling.’
21. ‘This is nearly a fantastic evening
22. characterised by the kind of simple miracles of stagecraft that make Graham a first-rate director.’
23. ‘All that was encompassed in the productions demanded the highest levels of staging and stagecraft.’
24. ‘Barbee never had any formal training as a character dancer
25. but years of performing have taught him key elements of stagecraft that give his performances their impact.’
26. ‘I attended a youth theatre there in the 1980s
27. I learned most of my basic stagecraft in its two performance areas.’
28. ‘The film and comedy components are much more assured than the theatre
29. which has some pretty clumsy stagecraft
30. and which too frequently appears to be just a convenient vehicle for the gags.’
31. ‘Expressionist stagecraft and decor
32. both in the theater and the cinema
33. set out to convey the subjective mental state of the protagonist.’
34. ‘Clearly
35. credit is also due to Michael Fry
36. the adaptor and director
37. whose stagecraft and expertise in filling the stage with imaginary crowds and processions is almost beyond praise.’
38. ‘Sturtevant's skill at stagecraft has never been so clear as in this recent work
39. where
40. as she puts it
41. the weight of meaning is no longer in what is concealed
42. but is carried on the surface.’
43. ‘Enormously popular
44. her vitality and stagecraft were underpinned by intelligence
45. yet all her successes
46. except in Shakespeare
47. were in sentimental melodrama.’
48. ‘As is so often the case with Banks's work
49. the show harnesses imagination and simple stagecraft to tremendous effect - particularly in a scene where a book turns into an angry
50. distressed bird.’
51. ‘His simple stagecraft makes you shiver with sheer pleasure at what theatre can do without resort to special effects.’
52. ‘It was all Hollywood stagecraft
53. including fabric banners
54. painted cardboard shipping tubes and what was reportedly all the aluminum scaffolding west of the Mississippi.’