stage business
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Their actions amount to anecdotal slivers, book-reading, coffee-drinking, staring out the window—in a word, stage business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
And he admitted these were both a problem, describing them as "early stage business issues".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Another part of his success was his ability to negotiate intricate stage business in an opera in which the action can become so complicated that almost nobody can follow it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Brown and Barnard don’t meld as seamlessly with their characters as Horne does with his, and once in a while they make bits of stage business look contrived instead of spontaneous.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
Not stage business, certainly, for that is not my branch.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
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