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

In his stage directions, Beckett spent 195 words choreographing some horseplay involving hats.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023

For example, they can’t make cuts for time, make minor changes to dialogue or even change stage directions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2023

The title of “Enter Ghost” is drawn from William Shakespeare’s stage directions, when King Hamlet’s ghost commands his son to seek justice in their rotten kingdom.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 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