[Bad Idea Bear]

I've just been reading a press release about forthcoming play Shadowlands which states that the play is 'fully staged'. What exactly does this term mean?

[josh]

I've just been reading a press release about forthcoming play Shadowlands which states that the play is 'fully staged'. What exactly does this term mean?

I think it's because the production started life as just a reading, with actors reading from their scripts sitting in chairs, so without set and movement etc, like a radio play, and it's now developed into a full production...so it will have a full staging with set and movement and no scripts etc.

[Ian]

I think it's because the production started life as just a reading, with actors reading from their scripts sitting in chairs, so without set and movement etc, like a radio play, and it's now developed into a full production...so it will have a full staging with set and movement and no scripts etc.

Josh is correct - this started out as a fund-raiser (at, I think, the Comedy Theatre) for one performance only in December 2006, although it was not the original production of the play.

The version at Wyndhams is a fully staged (set / costumes / actors knowing their lines etc!) production.