staging

A performance of a play

Noun

  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 scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage.
    • 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...
    • A variety of magical effects or tricks might have been possible on the Jacobean playhouse if Sabbattini's elaborate staging machinery was at hand at the at period. - 2014, Shokhan Rasool Ahmed, The Staging of Witchcraft...
  3. 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...
    • Staging often raises the value of a property by reducing the home's flaws, depersonalizing, de-cluttering, cleaning, and making it look its best with furniture placement, lighting, color, and much more. - 2011,...
    • The representation and staging of reconstruction, of architectural design and of planning models, in particular, played a prominent role in the visual imagery and promotional discourse on both sides. - 2013, Claire...
  4. 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...
    • Kierkegaard wants his listeners to see Thorvaldsen's statue in the same way that he wants his readers to attend to his writing -- not as an end in itself, but as a staging of desire. - 2014, Carl S. Hughes, Kierkegaard...
  5. 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...
    • As was the case with the City & South London, powers were taken to sink shafts from temporary staging in the river, about 240 ft. from the south bank, from which to begin boring the tunnels, and the first pile for the...
  6. The act or process of putting on an event.
    • The item 'event costs' is particularly difficult to break down since the staging of the competitions results in a variety of different expenditures. - 2004, Holger Preuss -, The Economics of Staging the Olympics, →ISBN:
    • The staging of events which aimed to transform the city's public spaces and streets into spectacular urban landscapes for promotional purposes was also pioneered in the late 1920s. - 2013, Claire Colomb, Staging the New...
  7. The business of running stagecoaches.
  8. The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
  9. The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
    • By convention, clinical staging should be performed after complete excision of the primary melanoma (including microstaging) and after information about metastases to either regional or distant anatomic sites has been...
  10. An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
  11. The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.
    • Lost productivity and earning potential: Commercial drivers are paid for their time on the road. If delays occur during staging, both drivers and companies can lose money. Drivers may wait in long lines at warehouses...

Origin

By surface analysis, stage + -ing.

Forms

stagings

Derived

downstaging microstaging restaging staging area staging post upstaging

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of stage