upstage

adverb

toward or at the rear of a stage

adjective

transitive verb upstaged, upstaging

to draw the attention of the audience away from (a fellow actor) and to oneself by moving upstage so that the other actor must face away from the audience
to draw attention to oneself at the expense of (another) as by treating disdainfully

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