actor-proof

American  

[ak-ter-proof] / ˈæk tərˌpruf /

adjective

Theater.

1. (of a role or script) effective even if poorly acted.

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Etymology

Origin of actor-proof

First recorded in 1890–95; actor + -proof

Example Sentences

I’ve had playwriting advisers say things like, “You need to write an actor-proof play.”

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

“You can’t actor-proof your script, but I’d have written that character slightly differently to prevent those problems.”

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2018

And she is in a part as actor-proof as Camille.

From Time Magazine Archive

The script is virtually actor-proof: all the characters are kept so busy ducking bullets, knives and pottery that they rarely get a chance to deliver a line, let alone muff one.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the critics—therefore, not unnaturally, suspicious of an actress who was so beautiful, so beautifully dressed, so well supported, and so well outfitted with actor-proof plays even the critics conceded her ability.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham