Sentence examples for staging devices from inspiring English sources
There are two other innovations that Piscator added to the repertoire of staging devices.
Resorting to uncharacteristic stock staging devices, Mr. Campo may have realized that his cast lacks potential as an ensemble, or even that the play is not as fulfilled as he might have thought.
We could find ourselves scuppered by our own staging device.
"Va Savoir" is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama, and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
(This is Balanchine's adaptation of an old 19th-century staging device in the Danish production of "La Sylphide," which he had seen earlier in the 1930s in his time in Copenhagen: there the sylph, on point, steps from the window onto a small panel — it should look as if she's standing on thin air — that floats her sweetly down to the ground).
Being herded like disco sheep can be annoying but it's a clever staging device: as you're surrounded by and involved in the action, it becomes more difficult to judge or be critical of the characters – dancing with Imelda (played with almost unparalleled sweetness by Ruthie Ann Miles) makes you more likely to sympathise with her and her husband Jose Llana, despite knowing better.
The fashion for hoary stage devices waxes and wanes, although they have persisted more steadily in European theater than in our own.
The Israel-based company Nano Retina and others are developing early-stage devices and implants that restore partial sight to the blind.
The trouble begins when Jurgen, longing to do some real magic, pays $5 million at auction for a dusty collection of books and gimcrack stage devices once owned by Houdini.
In form, Oberon was little to his taste, having too many spoken scenes and elaborate stage devices for a composer who had always worked for the unification of the theatrical arts in opera.
Science fiction far more commonly omits the unromantic aspects of space travel, especially through one of the genre's commonest stage devices, the "faster-than-light drive," or "warp drive".
