| I was excited by the romantic exoticism of the play, but it was also a little quaint and stagy. |
| Too much of it, however: the dirgelike, mournful, fogged-up atmosphere seemed fake and stagy. |
| Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier. |
| The final fifteen minutes in particular, which theoretically contain the showdown between Stray Cat and Hundred Eyes, is a banal barrage of stagy and pretentious imagery. |
| What could have easily been a stagy endeavour is kept fresh by capable direction and clever coverage by director Andrew Shea. |
| And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how. |
