[HPFGU-Movie] TRIVIA: Dan in duel & Dueling Positions

[Morgan D.]

Steve (bboy_mn):

> Just enquiring about a bit of theater trivia.
> 
> UPSTAGING -
> 
> If I remember correctly 'upstaging' means to move to the back of the
> stage away from the audience. Yes? No? Maybe?
> 
> So if you 'upstage someone, does that mean YOU move toward (down
> stage) the audience or away (up stage) from the audience?
> 
> And from movies and TV, I've always gotten the idea that someone
> upstaging you was a bad thing, but I fail to see the 'badness' of it.
> 
> Any thoughts?

My graduation in college was Movies, not Theatre, and English is
(obviously) not my first language. But we did use the term upstage.
Moving up meant (in that environment) moving towards the public (or
camera).

Therefore, upstaging someone would mean, in a literal sense, stepping
between someone and the public. If one does this purposefully to
attract the publics attention to himself and away from his colleague,
well, its considered RATHER rude.

Morgan D.
Hogwarts Letters - http://www.hogwartsletters.hpg.com.br

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