Restages

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Presents a play, show, or event again after an initial presentation ; recreates or recreates a previous occurrence or scenario, often for analysis or demonstration
2. Arranges a theatrical production to be shown once more ; reenacts an earlier incident or activity to reproduce how it originally happened
3. Performs a staged performance anew, typically with some changes or updates ; reconstructs or simulates an earlier event to represent or examine it

Etymology: "Restages" is the third-person singular present of "restage," which is "re-" ("again") added to "stage," the verb meaning to put a play or performance before an audience. "Stage" traces back through Old French "estage" (a story or level of a building, also a dwelling) to Latin "stare," "to stand," so a stage is literally a place where something stands or is set up. The verb "to stage" in its theatrical sense developed in English later, as performances came to be physically set on a platform. The "re-" prefix is what makes this word useful. It is a productive English formation, so "restage" is a transparent compound rather than a term with its own separate history. The verb carries the same two senses as "stage": in theatre, it means mounting a production again, and more broadly it means reproducing an earlier event, such as when investigators reenact a crime at the scene to show how it happened.

Synonyms: reproduce, revise, recreate, reperform, remount