Meaning of stageworthiness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being suitable or effective for theatrical performance; the attribute of a play, script, or production that makes it apt for presentation on stage.

uncountable

Examples

“The thousands of persons that relied upon the press for their judgments of the stageworthiness of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, as also the majority of the censorious who were careful to get their impressions at first hand, by going to see it at ten dollars a head, constituted a peculiarly nondescript lot of humans, sundered one from another by individual experience and point of view; and they are not likely to create any standard, either moral or æsthetic.”

“The professional dramatist, whether independent or attached by contract to a particular company, sold his script and all subsquent rights to the companies, and to do so he needed to persuade these potential buyers of the stageworthiness of his work, not simply its dramatic merit.”

“As I use it, the idea of stageworthiness includes pieces that an audience in a particular context expects, accepts, tolerates, and/or enjoys—everything except for pieces they reject, find boring, or those that disgust and/or anger them.”

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