stagey
- s having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality
- While it still has the same weaknesses, like the dialogue, which is distractingly stagey in the mouths of most cast members who are not Ian McShane, the showdown over Port .
- The dialogue is at times stagey, and the characters are defined almost entirely through their addictions.
- Urban, urbane and stagey in the best sense of the word, this sitcom affirmed that opposites could attract an audience.