UPSTAGE


Meaning of UPSTAGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌpsteɪdʒ ]

( upstages, upstaging, upstaged)

1.

When an actor is upstage or moves upstage , he or she is or moves towards the back part of the stage. ( TECHNICAL )

Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience...

Position a camera upstage...

They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre.

≠ downstage

ADV : ADV after v , be ADV , prep ADV

Upstage is also an adjective.

...the large upstage box that Noble used for his 1990 production of King Lear.

≠ downstage

ADJ : ADJ n

2.

If someone upstages you, they draw attention away from you by being more attractive or interesting.

He had a younger brother who always publicly upstaged him...

VERB : V n

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