It even has a financial gnat on its hide in the form of TCI, a London-based activist hedge fund famed for its stagy belligerence.What is beyond doubt, though, is that Coal India is not digging fast enough (see chart 3).
Quadrophenia also was made into a film, in 1979, and was revived by the touring Who as a stagy rock spectacle in the 1990s.
His few short recordings are pretty stagy, with stresses in strange places, slightly reminiscent of Robert Peston.
It can make the dancers look stagy, and stodgy.
No film director, novice or veteran, could have done much to scrub off the stagy blend of plaint and ruefulness that coats Glaudini's lines ("You'll always be nothing, nothing"), and we get a scattering of those breathless hushes that, in the theatre, always make me wish I'd ordered a Scotch for the intermission.
Quieter, less stagy, more relaxed, Foulds constructs a prose that stealthily inspirits (to use a good nineteenth-century verb) the age he is writing about but does not abandon a modern embodiment.
"The level of crumple is a bit too stagy," he said.
The premise occasions steps into the violent side of tango, rude gangsters, a saucy madam, and a knife fight, but, while the dancing is slick and skilled, the stagy aesthetic vitiates any emotional or imaginative impact.
This is a Wearstler touch — a stagy sexiness reminiscent of burlesque, or a late-night movie on Lifetime.
Too much of it, however: the dirgelike, mournful, fogged-up atmosphere seemed fake and stagy.
The performances in this TACT production, as directed by Scott Alan Evans, are generally too stagy to give the characters the humanity the script lacks; the happy exception is Lawrence, as Mother, whose subtlety and humor nearly save the whole thing.
