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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