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  • adjective Impossible to perform on a stage.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ stageable

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Examples

  • Hospitals supported expanding the reporting requirements to include falls that lead to serious disability and "unstageable" pressure ulcers (a less advanced type of bedsore), said Lawrence Massa, president of the Minnesota Hospital Association.

    kstp.com - MORE NEWS 2009

  • For the National Theatre, Ben Power has reduced the unstageable eight hours of Henrik Ibsen's epic drama "Emperor and Galilean" to a mere bottom-punishing three hours and 30 minutes.

    Theater Out of Theology Paul Levy 2011

  • I'm interested in writing that spins on itself, dives inward, twists the guts of language and makes it sing new songs, whole operas, even unstageable ones.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

  • I'm interested in writing that spins on itself, dives inward, twists the guts of language and makes it sing new songs, whole operas, even unstageable ones.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

  • For the National Theatre, Ben Power has reduced the unstageable eight hours of Henrik Ibsen's epic drama "Emperor and Galilean" to a mere bottom-punishing three hours and 30 minutes.

    Theater Out of Theology Paul Levy 2011

  • I'm interested in writing that spins on itself, dives inward, twists the guts of language and makes it sing new songs, whole operas, even unstageable ones.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

  • A parable of good and evil, Bulgakov's late-1930s novel he burned the first draft, despairing of life as a writer in the USSR should be pretty much unstageable, but that hasn't stopped many from trying.

    This week's new theatre and dance 2011

  • I'm interested in writing that spins on itself, dives inward, twists the guts of language and makes it sing new songs, whole operas, even unstageable ones.

    Bettina Korek: A Writer's Credo: Notes from Author Frederic Tuten Bettina Korek 2010

  • That's why, more than any other stage choreographer, the numbers he choreographed are basically unstageable without more or less following the original movements you can't do "Steam Heat" or "Big Spender" without the Fosse moves, because he made sure those moves were built into the music.

    Snap, Snap, Shuffle, Shuffle, Snap Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • That's why, more than any other stage choreographer, the numbers he choreographed are basically unstageable without more or less following the original movements you can't do "Steam Heat" or "Big Spender" without the Fosse moves, because he made sure those moves were built into the music.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

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