单词 | scene work |
释义 | scene workn. 1. In early use: †stage performance generally; acting (obsolete). Now: spec. the rehearsal or performance of a single scene, esp. used as a means of developing or honing dramatic skills. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > dramatic performance scene1572 representation?1589 presentationa1616 scene work1642 dramatics1796 dramaticalc1826 dramaturgy1837 theatricalitya1871 stage-work1906 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 9 Likening those grave controversies to a piece of Stagery, or Scene-worke where his owne Remonstrant..must of all right be counted the chiefe Player. 1905 Cornell Coll. (Mount Vernon, Iowa) Bull. 4 67 Interpretations of selections from Cumnock's Choice Readings, orations, and scene work. 1920 Elem. School Jrnl. 21 316 There are lists of plays by grades, for special occasions, on special subjects, for male and female characters, and for study and scene work. 1967 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 19 536/1 One of SSTC's most successful programs brought Marjorie L. Dycke and seven of her acting students from the High School of Performing Arts, New York City, to show scenework at different levels of experience. 2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Mar. t36 The second hour of the class entails scene work. Two people in the middle of the room start to improv, and then St. Charles says ‘Freeze!’ and another student enters the scene while one leaves. 2. Stage scenery; (also) the preparation or manufacture of this. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery scene1540 scenery?1707 scene work1728 ethereality1819 décor1897 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Architecture Counterfeit Architecture, which we otherwise call Scene-Work. 1806 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 142/1 That which consists of projectures, painted in black or white, or in colours, after the manner of marble, which is also called scene-work, in the painting of columns, &c. for the decoration of theatres. 1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 30/1 From behind the curtain of life..[the Demon] protrudes his grisly head..chuckling with fiendish exultation over the combustion which will speedily blaze out amidst all our fragile scene-work and tinsel finery. 1876 R. O. Masson Three Cent. Eng. Poetry 294 In 1613, Chapman supplied the words of a court masque for which Inigo Jones constructed the scene-work. 1915 Proc. 6th Ann. Meeting Amer. Assoc. Collegiate Registrars 44 The department also has..a scene painting studio with paint-frame and facilities for active scene work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1642 |
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