0 onto or on a stage for a performance: --
1 on the stage of a theater or other place where people are performing: --
What happens onstage becomes simply an extension of the offstage.
Much was undoubtedly gained in this drive for onstage consistency and interpretative intelligibility.
The language of the dialogue adds other meanings to what is shown onstage and these may be remote in both space and time.
But whenever a sound or voice is heard onstage (and in the auditorium for sure), the presence of the offstage becomes impossible to ignore.
Inscrutability and strangeness, and the distance (and tensions) between onstage and offstage masculinities, are two ideas that emerge from our pieces.
And finally, are the doors we see on television the same as those we have encountered onstage for the past two and a half millennia?
In opera music is for the listener alone - the characters onstage do not hear their music and there is no mediating beholder.
However, when she exits the building, it is as if she has arrived onstage.
