act vs staging

act

noun
  • A division of a theatrical performance. 

  • A product of a legislative body, a statute. 

  • A display of behaviour. 

  • A display of behaviour meant to deceive. 

  • Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work. 

  • Any organized activity. 

  • A performer or performers in a show. 

  • A formal or official record of something done. 

  • The process of doing something. 

  • A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. 

  • Something done, a deed. 

verb
  • Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly). 

  • To perform a theatrical role. 

  • To play (a role). 

  • To convey an appearance of being. 

  • To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of). 

  • To feign. 

  • To do something. 

  • To have an effect (on). 

  • To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time. 

  • To do something that causes a change binding on the doer. 

staging

noun
  • A performance of a play 

  • The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity. 

  • An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment. 

  • A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building. 

  • The act or process of putting on an event. 

  • The act of journeying in stagecoaches. 

  • The business of running stagecoaches. 

  • The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it. 

  • The scenery and/or organization of actors' movements on stage. 

  • The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression. 

How often have the words act and staging occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )