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
The cop gave his lines right and Francie picked up her cues happily and the stage directions were the smiles between the spoken lines.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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