stage directions
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Today, to gauge a film’s potential, Macy aims to read scripts in one sitting and skips over the stage directions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Thornton Wilder, whose “Our Town” is the most famous dramatic inheritor of Winesburg’s legacy, cautioned in his stage directions that the play “should be performed without sentimentality or ponderousness — simply, dryly and sincerely.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024
In his stage directions, Beckett spent 195 words choreographing some horseplay involving hats.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023
I have a tendency to obsess over the stage directions, which are not in the movie.
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2023
His scripts—for that is what they were—were meticulously detailed, and came complete with stage directions.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
