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stage director in British English (steɪdʒ dɪˈrɛktə) noun theatre someone who directs actors for a show to be performed on stage stage director in American Englishnoun1. a person who directs a theatrical production 2. (formerly) a stage manager Word origin [1905–10 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aspect ratio, cadre, one-shot, overcall, personaExamples of 'stage director' in a sentencestage director I was the unhappy stage director concerned.The stage director thus has plenty to do.He hoped initially to be a stage director, a goal thwarted by the lack of training opportunities.He was a versatile man - producer, stage director, actor, even film-maker - but the role that he cherished most was that of playwright.By the end he looked like an overworked stage director whose leading actors insist on making up their own lines.You're working with them constantly, along with the stage director and designer, the librettist, the opera house executives.Why do stage directors remove operas from their original locations to 'universalise' them?Stage directors need to be more creative in their thinking, he says.He's talking now about stage directors. |