stage-management

The fact that he was found with his hand pointing at the empty bottle marked ‘Poison’ does suggest more than a touch of stage-management.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

We have, in recent months, been made aware of other bits of stage-management, such as that performed by the plunge protection team to stabilize the markets and prop up corporations deemed too big to fail.

End the Charade 2008

Here in the country, where no neutral tourists came, there was not the same stage-management as in the capital.

Greenmantle 2005

Yet the stage-management goes beyond having Jesus arrested and crucified.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Yet the stage-management goes beyond having Jesus arrested and crucified.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

This stage-management of issues to suit such narrow ends is regretable, especially at a time when it is essential to resolve the grave problems facing our country.

PAC STATEMENTS AND WALKOUT 1991

In the main, it may be said that any unexpected innovation, any device of stage-management that is by its nature startling, should be avoided in the crucial situations of a play.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

If the spectator looks at scenery when he should be listening to lines, if his attention is startled by some unexpected device of stage-management at a time when he ought to be looking at an actor's face, or if his mind is kept for a moment uncertain of the most emphatic feature of a scene, the main effect is lost and that part of the performance is a failure.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

But the present tendency toward naturalness of representment has, to some extent, exaggerated the importance of stage-management even at the expense of acting.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

He led up to his _dénouement_ with admirable stage-management.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James