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Stage left   /steɪdʒ lɛft/   Listen
Stage left

noun
1.
The part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience.  Synonym: left stage.






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"Stage left" Quotes from Famous Books



... He made instead a public exit, for Captain Ellison wanted to show the Panhandle that the law could reach out and get the Dinsmores just as it could any other criminals. With his handcuffed captive on a horse beside him, the Ranger rode down to the post-office just before the stage left. Already the word had spread that one of the Dinsmores had been taken by an officer. Now the town gathered to see the notorious ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... at night. Lanterns are suspended everywhere from the trees. The front of the players' cart is seen protruding up-stage left. The philosopher is seated on the steps of the car smoking a pipe. The blind girl with strange, tentative footsteps and feeling hands is busy ...
— Clair de Lune - A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes • Michael Strange

... broken at stage left by the projection at right angles of a partially enclosed staircase, four steps of which, leading to the landing, are visible to the audience. Underneath the enclosed stairway is a cubby-hole with a door; in front of the door ...
— Washington Square Plays - Volume XX, The Drama League Series of Plays • Various

... at which Mr. Preston traded was at the village where the stage left Oscar, which goes by the name of the "Cross-Roads," from the fact that two of the principal thoroughfares of that section of country cross at this point. Though this store was about five miles ...
— Oscar - The Boy Who Had His Own Way • Walter Aimwell



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