Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, a dramatic performance; hence, a play or drama adapted for representation on the stage, as distinguished from a reading- or closet-play.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
play written to be performed on thestage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, if you have “readers” reading the dialog (for editing reasons), just adapt it to “stageplay” and they can focus on reading the dialog without gettin confused with panel description.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Free Comic Book Scripting Software 2009
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I had originally written TKS as a screenplay, but then wrote it as a stageplay because the physical limitations of theatre would force me to focus on the two key relationships of the stuttering King and his therapist.
Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: David Seidler Protects and Defends The King's Speech Patricia Zohn 2011
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A couple months ago Paul Thomas Anderson directed a stageplay in LA (which many described as a radioplay), which featured Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, and John C Reilly.
See A Paul Thomas Anderson Production This Saturday! | /Film 2008
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He jogged most every morning and took up amateur photography and spoke periodically about a stageplay he was writing.
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But then she goes back to Australia to do a harmless little stageplay and – bam!
Cate Blanchett Names New Baby After A Type Of Rock Or Something 2009
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Reprising their roles from Morgan's stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who fully inhabited the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.
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Reprising their roles from Morgan's stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who fully inhabited the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.
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Just because you want to write a stageplay doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best medium for the story.
Food For Thought: Shadows on the Wall Michael Alan Nelson 2009
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Quentin Tarantino's first film remains one of his best; Reservoir Dogs is a film that thinks it's a stageplay, with almost all the action collected on a handful of sets.
Archive 2008-05-01 Greg Tannahill 2008
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Quentin Tarantino's first film remains one of his best; Reservoir Dogs is a film that thinks it's a stageplay, with almost all the action collected on a handful of sets.
Dust Forms Words 100 Must-See Movies: 31 to 40 Greg Tannahill 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word stageplay
"Originally, a dramatic performance; hence, a play or drama adapted for representation on the stage, as distinguished from a reading- or closet-play." --Cent. Dict.
April 26, 2011