off stage right
- idiom
- Jargon
:
fuera del escenario a la derecha
- Rachel loses control, backs away from the podium, and runs off stage right.
Examples
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If some kind is coming from off stage right somewhere, at the scalloped border, some comforting, gorgeous, lilting song is drifting across the field from the trees or rescue, bleeding into the scene?
Fiction book (1995) -
Tonight's hot little prize is in a soundproof room off stage right now, and she can't actually see or hear the candidates.
Blog text (12) -
Rachel loses control, backs away from the podium, and runs off stage right.
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The actors waited in the wings, ready to step off stage right when their cue came.
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During the performance, the spotlight swung off stage right as the scene changed.
Synonyms
107
3.0
In the area behind a stage, out of view of the audience
30
5.8
An area at the side of a stage where actors wait out of sight
10
4.1
In a place at the side or behind the stage where the audience cannot see
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional from 'off' (away from) + 'stage' (performance platform) + 'right' (the right-hand side), indicating a location away from the stage on the right side. While theatrical conventions about whose 'right' (actor vs audience) are a specialized detail, the basic spatial sense is immediately derivable by a learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Off stage right comes from theatre directions: an actor steps off the stage to the audience's right, so they are 'out of view'. That's why it means 'to or located on the right side of the stage, out of the view of the audience'.