stagings

Noun

staging (countable and uncountable, plural stagings)

1. A performance of a play.
   • The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn.1988 April 15, S.L. Wisenberg, “On Stage: cartoon characters in a drama of death”, in Chicago Reader
2. The act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.
   • 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.2006, The West in Early Cinema, page 243
3. The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set.
   • The movie's staging has the actors facing forward, as if playing before a live audience, in the style of fifties television situation comedies.2000, America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, page 165
4. (broadly) The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
   • Ranging along a continuum of degrees of "realism," each of these tourist sites embraces particular conceptions of animal subjectivity, notions of authenticity, and models of human-animal relationships. Each represents a different relationship to the concept of "situ." The higher the perceived...1999, Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World, →ISBN
5. The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
   • Staging Mobilities explores the dynamic process between 'being staged' (as, for example, when traffic lights command us to stop or when timetables organize your route and itineraries) and the "mobile staging" of interacting individuals (as, for example, when we negotiate a passage on the pavement...2013, Ole B. Jensen, Staging Mobilities, →ISBN, page 4
6. A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
   • We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.1945 January and February, 'A Former Pupil', “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14

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