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Staging vs Blocking - What's the difference?

staging | blocking |

In theater terms the difference between staging and blocking

is that staging is a performance of a play while blocking is the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera (originally planned using miniature blocks).

staging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (theater) A performance of a play
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 15, author=S.L. Wisenberg, title=On Stage: cartoon characters in a drama of death, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings ) was much more solemn. }}
  • A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
  • The business of running stagecoaches.
  • The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
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    blocking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  • Miss H.'s voice was clear and intelligible, although it alternated between vocal blockings and extreme vocal hurry, every clause being jetted out suddenly, and rapidly decaying into aphonia.
  • (theater) The precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera (originally planned using miniature blocks).
  • Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.