stage-director

I dabbled in the Theatre Arts, studied voice production for nine years before arriving at the horrifying conclusion that I was a better stage-director of opera than a singer.

Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

He would prowl to and fro and up and down all alone in his lovely theatre, unable to rest, unable to think coherently, and when he met anybody — Winty Meyer or the stage-director or the S.M. or some hellish gossip hound — he would be cool and detached.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

A light cue had been missed and he wanted a word with the stage-director.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

-- The text, done by the old stage-director Schikaneder was long mistaken for a fiction without any common sense, but Mozart saw deeper, else he would not have adapted his wonderful music to it.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

And the general public, at least in present-day America, never makes the effort to distinguish the intention of the dramatist from the interpretation it receives from the actors and (to a less extent) the stage-director.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

With the stage-director standing thus, for benefit or hindrance, between the author and the audience, how is the public to appreciate what the dramatist himself has, or has not, done?

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

On the other hand, Mr. Richard Walton Tully's play, _The Rose of the Rancho_, was spoiled by the cleverest stage-director of our day.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

In addition to the stage-director and his assistant, who appear in the prologue, the characters of the play are these:

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

But when the dramatist has completed his play, he does not deliver it directly to the public; he delivers it only indirectly, through the medial interpretation of many other artists, -- the actor, the stage-director, the scene-painter, and still others of whom the public seldom hears.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Only to a slightly less extent is the dramatist at the mercy of his stage-director.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton