regie-book
/ɹeɪˈʒi/
regie-book noun: a director's notebook detailing the development of a production.
Noun
regie-book (plural regie-books)
- A director's notebook detailing the development of a production.
- The director's action plot, prompt-book or regie-book — whichever he calls it — shows diagrammatically the relative positions and movements of the performers throughout the play.1938, Theatre Arts Monthly, volume 22, page 513
- […] he writes in the margins and blank pages all important statements made by the director about motivations and characterizations, about the cutting or adding of words or lines, the actors' comment on characters and dialogue — in short, the regie-book is a complete picture of what happened at...1945, Theatre Arts, volume 29, page 57
Forms of regie-book
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Origin of regie-book
From German Regiebuch, from Regie (“direction (of theatrical work)”) + Buch (“book”).
Questions about regie-book
- What does regie-book mean?
- Regie-book means a director's notebook detailing the development of a production.
- What part of speech is regie-book?
- Regie-book is a noun.
- How do you pronounce regie-book?
- Regie-book is pronounced /ɹeɪˈʒi/.
- What is the plural of regie-book?
- The plural of regie-book is regie-books.
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