“We have finally commenced the final stage of the project.”

“Then, in the following stage, we find a sharply critical reaction to the traditional ideology.”

“It felt surreal to be up on the stage, performing in front of thousands of people.”

“He was a cheerful fellow in his sorry business, blithe as an old stager of an undertaker at a first-class funeral.”

“In later years she was a coach and teacher, as well as a stager of ballets.”

“There's Usman Khawaja at Derbyshire, Wayne Parnell at Sussex and Pakistan's old stager Mohammad Yousuf at Warwickshire, for example.”

“Put a modern cinemagoer in front of an ancient staging of Oedipus Rex, and they could easily follow it.”

“Most of Chaplin's features have a staginess that seems at least half-deliberate.”

“A courtroom drama at heart, Taking Sides manages to overcome its theatrical staginess to provide some beautiful music and images.”

“The staginess of Hillary's own bonhomie was something that many observers thought she might have to overcome.”

“Its austere aesthetic and slow, stylized pace are often reminiscent of a Robert Wilson stagescape.”

“Bosque Ardora is set in a forest, a stageful of live trees with slatted light.”

“This is followed by the 1987 production Ahnen, in which the dancers' search for love and meaning is framed by a stageful of enormous cacti.”

“The National Ballet of China's production involves 70 musicians, 100 dancers, a stageful of costume changes, silk and paper screens, and lots of lacquer and gold.”

“Perhaps that's why they end up doing rather director-led conceptual stagings.”

“The company became state-supported in 1921 and under ballet master A. Romanowski presented stagings of the Ballets Russes and early Soviet repertories.”

“However, the majority of stagings were of lower farces and much more serious and domestic tragedies.”

“Two old stagers John Joe and Timmy held the audience captive with their piece about the temperate and the toper.”

“Their performances include frequent encores, presumably lasting until the stagers tire and the birds move on to the next tune.”

“The most shameful element in the production was not the weak choreographic text but the stagers ' spineless indecision about tone.”