Meanings
plural regie-books
- entertainmentA director's notebook detailing the development of a production.
The director's action plot, prompt-book or regie-book — whichever he calls it — shows diagrammatically the relative positions and movements of the performers throughout the play.
1938, Theatre Arts Monthly, volume 22, page 5131 more example
[…] he writes in the margins and blank pages all important statements made by the director about motivations and characterizations, about the cutting or adding of words or lines, the actors' comment on characters and dialogue — in short, the regie-book is a complete picture of what happened at rehearsals.
1945, Theatre Arts, volume 29, page 57
Origin
- GermanRegiebuch
- Englishregie-book
From German Regiebuch, from Regie (“direction (of theatrical work)”) + Buch (“book”).
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