Sentence examples for going on offstage from inspiring English sources

But a sense of the war going on offstage pervades the novel, and like prison, Vietnam provides a plausible, terrible destination for some of its directionless characters.

The audience sees no sign of this activity; in "Garden," which I saw first, there are no self-conscious references to what's going on offstage, and if you didn't know that there were people rushing about behind the scenes you wouldn't guess it.

Tindall refers to Book IV as "a chapter of resurrection and waking up", and McHugh finds that the chapter contains "particular awareness of events going on offstage, connected with the arrival of dawn and the waking process which terminates the sleeping process of [Finnegans Wake]." However, this conceptualisation of the Wake as a dream is a point of contention for some.

(Plenty of profane branding goes on offstage, however).

Those go on offstage, backstage, as sealed away from public view as Schrodinger's cat.

While this is going on, Johan 1 walks into a glassed-in "offstage" room, where various props are stored — phonographs, records, plants, and so on.

So, there's good stuff going on onstage and some great stuff happening offstage as well.

The play begins with Holiday's words, "I can't go on," spoken offstage.

"I came offstage and Johnny was like, 'What the fuck's going on?' I just said, 'You're in Bristol now – it happens all the time!' It was mayhem, with bodies everywhere".

"When I was there we joked that there was a room called 'the crying room'," he said, "because when they escort you offstage after a wrong word, there's a lot of crying going on.

At the end, after a chaotic ensemble, all except the Kid shuffle offstage, bunched in a pack, facing the audience, as in those comic ensembles in Rossini when the action stops and characters wonder aloud what is going on.