| 单词 | stage direction |
| 例句 | “Now we have to hurry,” said the Big F. “We should go through your stage directions. The hypogeum is all set!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His scripts—for that is what they were—were meticulously detailed, and came complete with stage directions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They were in Julius Caesar now and the stage direction “Alarum” confused Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The cop gave his lines right and Francie picked up her cues happily and the stage directions were the smiles between the spoken lines. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Bobby looks at the script, he notes a scene in which the stage direction says, Justin is electric in this scene. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In one version of the libretto Wagner’s stage directions have the assembled men and women watching the conflagration “in speechless dismay”; in another they view the scene “moved to the very depths of their being.” Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z The play, which takes its title from a persistent stage direction in “King Lear” and is directed by Portia Krieger, is the inaugural production of the new collective Brooklyn Yard. Review: ‘Storm, Still,’ a Riff on ‘King Lear’ in a Brooklyn Backyard 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The scene where he commentated on his own imaginary golfing triumph while whacking the heads off chrysanthemums was improvised from two lines of stage direction. The 10 best Bill Murray moments 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The stories are playfully constructed here, with the performers treating the stage directions as part of the dialogue. Globalization in a white takeout carton: Roland Schimmelpfennig's 'The Golden Dragon' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z With only a few hours to prepare, Gelinas studied videos and raced to memorize stage directions. Scrambling but Undaunted, the Met Opera Sings Through Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Each line and stage direction sets up something in the narrative that pays off later on the evening. Play it again: staging a production one year on 2011-07-26T14:23:41Z Reitman has run the shows, mostly in Los Angeles, since 2011; he wrangles the cast and chips in with stage directions. Michael Fassbender really pulls the Big Lebowski live read together 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Eugene O’Neill, whose insanely detailed stage directions for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” specify even the titles of the books on the shelves, somehow forgot to mention the Purell. Review: A Shorter ‘Long Day’s Journey,’ Now With N95s 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In the play, there is a well-known stage direction for Antigonus, an adviser to Leontes, who is commanded by his king to abandon the baby Perdita: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” Review: In ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ the Silk Flows Better Than the Steps 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Hansberry’s stage directions for “Marrow” frame these questions in spatial terms. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z They delivered dialogue and stage directions directly from the finale's script. 'Scandal' cast performs finale live for Academy 2013-05-17T09:10:09Z These images don't declare powerful attractions or private feelings, at least not directly; Manet doesn't impose himself upon his sitters, he simply offers some stage directions. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z Hughes provided stage directions—called “the mood”—for “The Black Clown,” which he suggested should be spoken “to the music of a piano, or an orchestra.” “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z The lines are those of people conversing about what might happen as they read the scripts, which are passed around in accordance with stage directions, and what it might mean. ‘We Are Still Watching,’ by Ivana Müller, Compels Participation 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z He stopped to issue stage directions, punk the other actors by messing with their props, and, of course, to star in the show. After Madea, Tyler Perry Builds a New Kingdom 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z As with that stage direction, every script is a challenge, and every production, an answer to it. Sex and the theater: An actress bares all about onstage nudity “Three Women” includes no character descriptions, no stage directions and no dialogue — nothing to mark it as a play rather than a poem. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z His stage directions weren’t merely suggestions — the settings and stage choreography were as intrinsic to the meticulously crafted theatrical vision as the compressed dialogue. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Here are edited descriptions of some of what she saw, and why it stayed with her, with references to stage directions and dialogue from the play. Sightseeing for History (With a Few Selfies Along the Way) 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Before a single line of Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play “Eurydice” is spoken, a curious stage direction stands like a sentinel at its front gate. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z There are vague stage directions describing groups of Aztecs and Spaniards trampling and stamping one another. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z And you can hear him read the stage directions sometimes, as our colleague Jonathan Martin likes to say. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z We wouldn’t erase the stage directions from an Arthur Miller play or tighten up the Mona Lisa by a few inches. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z As the Wooster Group’s infamous blackface interpretation made indelibly clear, originally in the 1990s, “The Emperor Jones” is encrusted by its own time, with dialect that reads like racial caricature and sometimes cringe-worthy stage directions. Review: Emperor Jones, Fearsome and Fearful in a Roaring Revival 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s a drama so scrubbed of artifice that the first stage directions in the script are: “No curtain. No scenery.” ‘Our Town’ debuted in 1938, but it’s still staged everywhere. A new book explains why it’s so timeless. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Hillary — the one in his world, like the one in ours — knows that stage direction well. Hillary Clinton Lost. The Play Won. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z At the end of the Immolation Scene, Brünnhilde, as the stage directions indicate, mounts Grane, her horse, and rides it into the conflagration. Music Review: Robert Lepage?s ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met ? Review 2012-01-28T21:28:42Z Take a look at the original French text of his plays: the stage directions are more extensive than the dialogue. Feeling the farce 2010-12-15T13:01:43Z “Obviously we have supertitles and we’ll have some extra stage directions,” Puts said. Fleming returns to Met in new opera based on ‘The Hours’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z When the stage directions say that Christopher barks like a dog, for example, Mr. Rowe chooses to underplay it. The World Really Is a Stage, Scripts and All, to an Actor With Autism 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But the deft and economical stage direction of Tazewell Thompson, originally conceived for this past summer’s Glimmerglass Festival, in New York, credibly clarified those complications and propelled the drama forward with ease. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Guillemets, those double arrows, encase speech; parentheses enclose stage directions, more or less. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Most of the play is written in the form of stage directions, and the audience bases many of its assumptions on nonverbal cues. In Bess Wohl’s ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ a Loss for Words Leads to a Gain in Insight 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z “I scripted the introduction, the closing and transitions, with actual stage directions.” A Scripted Ceremony Takes Center Stage 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Unlike the other “Potter” books, “Cursed Child” is a script, with stage directions and dialogue for a two-part play that opens July 30 in London, England. Summon a new ‘Harry Potter’ book at midnight release parties 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Some chapters unfold as scenes in a play, replete with stage directions. Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out of the “Instapoetry” Pack with Her Memoir “The Terrible” 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In stage directions that follow Beale’s speech, Chayefsky was already conjuring the same apocalyptic power that Finch later summoned in his indelible performance. Arts & Leisure: Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell 2011-05-19T15:34:47Z Here, according to the stage directions, the Prince "seizes Turandot in his arms and kisses her in a frenzy" — but Doucet instead had Turandot run to the Prince and kiss him. 'Turandot': an impressive and moving triumph 2012-08-06T17:38:04Z Britten’s stage directions intend “Curlew” to be a medieval Christian ritual. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z After she raised that concern to Kaufman, the stage directions were changed to make the conversation more discreet. Joaquina Kalukango Isn’t Afraid to Speak Up Anymore 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z With such a text-heavy play, Meadow must make sure that each prop, sound cue and stage direction supports what the characters are saying onstage. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The exacting stage directions provide little latitude for reinvention, but the productions were nonetheless strikingly different in effect. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Brief stage directions and simple props make the pieces easy to perform. Girl uses her voice to encourage voting in ‘Loretta Little Looks Back’ 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Taking Taylor's geographical stage directions at their word, she whisks us from Portsmouth to Pilton, from town to country, interspersing each short, sharp scene with recorded chatter from Geordies, Scousers and Glaswegians. One Million Tiny Plays About?Britain 2010-05-23T20:45:00Z The laborious artiness of the short, self-consciously cryptic scenes that make up large swaths of the play start to chafe pretty early on — the stage direction “they sew” plainly valuing activity over speech. Review: ‘The Children,’ in London, Offers Hints of an Apocalypse 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Will Kerley’s stage direction in Philadelphia amplifies this impression of reticence concealing glinting, surging colors. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z He is listed in the program as both supporting characters and as Barrie himself, and in each one-act he frequently steps aside to declaim the playwright’s cheeky stage directions and character descriptions. Theater Review: ‘This Side of Neverland,’ at Pearl Theater 2013-05-13T21:47:10Z In an episode where the stage directions describe battles between the Aztecs and the Spaniards, Montezuma, now pregnant, endures a tortured birth process. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He then went onto explain the format of the live read which involves an unrehearsed seated performance of the script with a set of actors and Reitman reading stage directions. As Reitman wishes ... Rachel McAdams and Patrick Stewart head up cast of Princess Bride live read 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Wagner’s libretto is filled with stage directions that were unrealistic for his day, including underwater episodes with the Rhinemaidens swirling about. Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z In another intriguing choice, Steitzer's production weaves Shaw's eloquent stage directions into the spoken text. Actor slips easily into Prof. Higgins' shoes in 'Pygmalion' 2012-02-22T22:48:07Z Tennant managed to talk about Shakespeare's stage direction "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", without once being interrupted. Tennant makes Radio 4 quiz record 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Still, because it’s a dream, Mr. Michieletto can play loose with the libretto’s stage directions. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z “My favourite stage direction ever,” Dilley tells me between takes, “is the one telling me Mephistopheles is troubled by the Kantian dialectic.” A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Manfred by Lord Byron "The Scene of the Drama is amongst the Higher Alps" reads the opening stage direction of Byron's "dramatic poem". Ten of the best: Alps 2010-12-18T00:07:19Z The scene runs to four pages of dialogue-free stage directions in the script. 2010-02-10T00:02:00Z But before long he had finished the first third of the script, and was being consulted on all areas of the production – story, design, stage directions, costumes, "practically everything". Gorillaz and Alan Moore fall out over opera 2010-06-15T09:07:00Z Actors and directors often treat stage directions as nothing more than suggestions, but in “Small Mouth Sounds” they are both structure and substance. In Bess Wohl’s ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ a Loss for Words Leads to a Gain in Insight 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The result was almost, but not quite, incoherent nonsense, riddled with cryptic nonsequiturs, bizarre turns of phrase and unfathomable stage directions such as “he is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor”. 'It's a war between technology and a donkey' – how AI is shaking up Hollywood 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z And then there’s this beautiful stage direction that Jesse wrote in the script of Tom and Shiv in the car. In ‘Succession,’ Tom and Greg Were Never Playing the Long Game 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z She did not need stage direction to bring out Desdemona's innocence and faith that pure love will be her salvation. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z His actors would declaim the stage directions along with their dialogue, reels would go missing, money was always a problem. The Book of Henry is a catastrophically awful film. Everyone should see it 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z If you’re going to make a dance to a long and difficult poem, it makes sense to take Eliot’s phrases about beginnings and endings as guideposts, almost as stage directions. A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z But after witnessing his utterly gross stage directions — so like “Last Tango in Paris,” and yet so not — are we even listening anymore? 'Masters of Sex' Recap: With an Ape, the Show Jumps the Shark 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z As Hansberry puts it in her stage directions, “Weariness has, in fact, won in this room.” Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z The stage directions remain comically bland; the best virtual readings render them as captions or dispense with them altogether. In Virtual Readings, Less (a Lot Less) Is Sometimes More 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Some of the stage directions sound like speeches, a few of the speeches sound like stage directions. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Nothing about the play is more famous than its stage direction for Antigonus: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” A New ‘Winter’s Tale’ for Royal Ballet 2014-04-11T13:19:32Z You're offering a kind of stage direction: dramatizing the process of typing. The 10 best words the internet has given English 2013-04-17T09:19:32Z In “May B,” Ms. Marin works with the same meticulous precision that characterizes Beckett’s stage directions. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z As with all Beckett's work, there are strict stage directions that must be adhered to. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z In the stage directions, everyone's worshipping Vulcan, and we have something called The Dance of the Moorish Slaves. David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z On these we read our lines and stage directions. Review: The Compassion of ‘A Thousand Ways (Part Two)’ 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Now in the scripts, as a stage direction, instead of saying, “The Doctor looks peeved” or “The Doctor looks annoyed,” they just write, “Eyebrows.” 'Doctor Who' and the Eyebrows of Peter Capaldi 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Josie Hogan, McDonald’s character, is described in stage directions as “typically Irish,” with “large dark-blue eyes” and a complexion that is “fair, freckled, and sunburned.” Taking a cue from Billie Holiday to ‘Go out there and sing’ 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z With Ponsonby narrowly ahead, we move on to questions about Shakespeare's many references to animals - including one about the most famous stage direction ever written. Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z In conversation, he frequently interrupts himself to interject his internal monologue, as though he’s both performing a play and announcing the stage directions. Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “We realize he’s crying” must be among the scariest stage directions an actor could find at the top of a script. ‘Lunar Eclipse’ Review: A Dark, Cloudy Night of the Soul 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Mitisek takes responsibility for the musical arrangement, stage direction and set. A gamble pays off: Long Beach Opera transports 1692 'Fairy Queen' to modern-day Vegas 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Hold Me Closer reads like a musical theater script, full of flamboyant musical numbers, heartfelt stage direction and personality as big as Tiny himself. Top 10 YA Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Performers in all three booths need to stay in sync so that each segment ends at the same time; they wear earpieces through which they’re fed their original text, as well as stage directions. An Experimental Troupe Can Unpack Its Bags 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z He submitted the jokes to a read-through, where “Lorne gets his big basket of popcorn, and he reads the stage directions, and then the actors would read the parts.” Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America 2013-07-15T19:46:10Z The last preview was marred slightly by the crash of broken cups as the bar set failed to follow stage directions. Review: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is ill-conceived 2013-03-20T23:46:16Z The playwright remembered a frantic call from Polanski asking whether it was all right to move a stage direction from one page to another of the screenplay. For 'Venus in Fur' author, working with Roman Polanski was 'heaven' 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Once again, Brovsky's elegant stage direction makes the most of every dramatic opportunity. Review: 'Don Quixote' makes for a gratifying night at Seattle Opera 2011-03-01T00:35:42Z As his butler, Blake Wales, who also reads stage directions aloud, plays his lines with some Grand Guignol fun, complimented by a Vincent Price voice. New York Deaf Theater Adapts ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z He cited the stage directions at the end, which begin, “The play cracks open.” They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times sets, singing, orchestra, acting, lighting, stage direction and conducting have come together to create an ideal fusion. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z The attributions are laden with unnecessary and burdensome adjectives — “said an emotional Roser” — an authorial shorthand that results in stage directions better suited to a screenplay. Review | In ‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ Isabel Allende delivers another sentimental epic set in troubled times 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z While Kushner said it’s “okay if the wires show” in his stage directions, in this production Flack’s stage magic is, for the most part, so delightfully rudimentary there aren’t even wires to hide. Angels in … Australia? 2013-06-17T05:14:00Z Some images involved a bit more stage direction than others, as with Halsman’s collaboration with the Surrealist Salvador Dalí from the late 1940s. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z By reciting stage directions in “The Myopia,” I called on the audience to imagine the settings and characters — just as I had while listening to the musicals. In His Own Words: David Greenspan, Actor and Playwright 2010-03-26T16:28:00Z What was lacking was a sense of theater, mainly for lack of stage direction. Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. van der Aa’s stage direction, in a production that originated at the Dutch National Opera last year, presents it all in wondrous technological strokes. Review: 3-D Enhances An Enigmatic New Opera 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Whereas Williams’s stage directions describe the set as “rather dim and poetic,” this production begins with a bleak, nearly naked, fully lighted stage, with a metal cart of props. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Which he does – stage directions, typos and all. As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-14T14:49:07Z Beckett included copious stage directions alongside the gnomic dialogue as the characters discuss, with dark humor, the meaninglessness of the human condition. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In some cases, stage directions and notes may not solve these problems since directors may arbitrarily break from the text. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Her dancers move more like everyday people than like mythic figures, and they also speak, whether reciting stage directions or fragmented dialogue. Review: Martha Graham Dance Company Displays Unorthodox Humor 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z And he’s fond of impossible stage directions like “something strange happens” or “a furry pause.” Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z I think that the singers became much more comfortable with the stage direction, and I think Bob became much more comfortable with the singers. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z But we do often see the words he has written — stage directions and dialogue — multiplying as the action proceeds. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Hauser lifted the title from a repeated stage direction in a musical that Brown tried to write about her own life, and the book has the nimble-footed and slightly manic quality of a revue. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Set amid all this are cosmic stage directions of the sort we later became familiar with in Beckett. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “In the stage direction, it says, ‘Selina gives a noise that simultaneously is a groan and a smile, concerned and happiness at the same time,’ ” Iannucci says. How Julia Louis-Dreyfus quietly became the most successful sitcom star ever 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z And many of the script’s stage directions are read out loud by two actors, Joyce Sanhá and Christian Löber, whose limber performances — as narrators, nurses and other characters — add to the production’s anxious, off-kilter energy. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Directed by Als, and with skillful audio production and editing by Alex Barron, the podcast does not always succeed in conveying, with voice and stage directions, what we need to envision. Review: Unearthing the Late Curiosities of Tennessee Williams 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z It is popular, in many opera circles, to demonize interpretive stage direction — the dreaded “Regietheater,” a.k.a. Review | Empowering the wife: ‘Otello’ as domestic drama 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z As the composer explains in a program note, the work has "no text, no plot and no stage directions predetermined whatsoever." Review: NYCO mixes familiar with far-out 2011-03-28T16:46:04Z I’m far from the only critic who has said that stage direction at the Met has become more geared to cinematic detail than large gesture. HD broadcasts, once the future of opera, are now seen by some as its demise 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Listi, for instance, frequently allows for lengthy pauses in between sentences that convey, without stage directions, the process of someone thinking aloud. ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Looking back “The end of the play, the stage direction is that the forest grows and a new world begins. It’s like, ‘Let’s overthrow the world. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In several places, he pieces together fragmented scenes, as if with stage directions already in mind. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z Yet even in these efforts, he tends to fall back on a sort of shorthand, dispensing with descriptions quickly, as if they were stage directions and nothing else. George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Except the stage direction doesn't need to say anything: the music does. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z Another concern about stage directions, especially among actors, is that they limit the possibility of reinterpretation. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z The tone is almost theatrical, mixing the commanding voice of a single actor onstage with precise stage directions. The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Shakespeare's most famous stage direction, Antigonus fleeing from a bear, suggests it, but the moment is fleeting and, more often than not, its menace is more symbolic than felt. Disasters on stage: why can't theatre hit mankind where it hurts? 2011-02-03T15:08:08Z It’s about seeing a stage direction that says “spinning wheel” and blindly following it without really thinking it through, because you think this is what the situation calls for. On spinning in opera (and going through the motions) 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Working with robotics engineers forces dramatists to frame their stage directions in highly precise terms. Robot and Human Actors Take Bows Together 2012-07-06T04:57:20Z This show wants to mess with you, and it will — especially since Thomson decided, before the opera’s premiere in 1934, that Stein’s stage directions should be verbalized by the performers, just part of the show. ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z After all, if it's OK to alter stage directions, why not tweak the odd line of dialogue, too? Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z Slattery says of the script, a brick of nonstop dialogue and pyrotechnic stage direction, “if it fell on you, it would kill you.” John Slattery’s turn from adman to ink-stained wretch 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z After that there’s about 40 pages of stage direction, and there are some monologues in the play. A play with practically no talking? In Bess Wohl's 'Small Mouth Sounds,' silence is sweet 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z This is then followed by a stage direction that calls for "the dancing shadows of five monkeys eating carrots". Picasso's surreal play comes to New York 2012-10-03T12:48:34Z Not even Eugene O’Neill, with his penchant for numbingly long stage directions, felt the need to include actual directions in his scripts. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z It's just a scene change: exit Beckmesser, enter Eva, as the stage direction says "richly dressed in gleaming white, rather sad and pale". What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z So begin the stage directions for the solo play "An Iliad," a Seattle Repertory Theatre world premiere. Solo actor tackles 'An Iliad' at Seattle Rep 2010-04-08T20:15:00Z To my firm knowledge, that is a stage direction neither Shakespeare nor his early editors ever wrote. A Musical ‘Winter’s Tale’ Breezes Through Central Park 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z He needed some stage direction on his path to maximum destruction. After Benghazi, learning to defend U.S. consulates through more intensive training The text and choreography and stage direction have been shuffled and tightened without major additions or deletions; the show builds to a real dramatic climax and poignant denouement. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z None of these stage directions has any equivalent in the choreography now shown — by the Royal Ballet among others — as Ivanov’s. ArtsBeat: Clues to the Original Nutcracker 2010-12-04T12:30:00Z SCATTERBRAIN: A typical stage direction in a zombie movie. Style Invitational: ‘Wait Wait’ for us with multiple-choice trivia questions 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “In silence, look across from you and imagine what keeps them up at night,” one stage direction reads. Review: The Compassion of ‘A Thousand Ways (Part Two)’ 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Ben Jonson's vaunting 1616 collection of his works directs the reader's attention towards classical allusion rather than roistering theatricality; Shaw's dialogue famously has to wriggle past screeds of argumentative stage direction. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z The dialogue includes spoken stage directions — a surprisingly workable device. Review: 'The Brothers Size' at Seattle Rep, wrestles with the passions, the perils of brotherhood 2011-02-10T21:57:04Z The newness of the style was bracing yet challenging: the spoken stage directions, the mix of high lyricism and street slang, the West African iconography, the communal propulsion into song. The choir sings, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney takes up the tune 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z And in the stage directions, the ghost opens his arms. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Evening., takes its title from the famed stage direction from Waiting For Godot. Artist of the week 2010-05-05T14:57:00Z And despite my best outreach efforts, I couldn’t find a 50-year-old Latina to play a fourth character, a case manager named Vera, so I decided I would read her, along with the stage directions. Retreating for the Summer, but Not Heading Backward 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z I doubt this is quite what Williams had in mind when he wrote, in the stage directions for “Cat,” that “some mystery should be left in the revelation of a character in a play.” Theater Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2013-01-18T03:00:00Z He was famously wrong-footed by an autocue, reading out loud a speechwriter’s instruction intended as a silent stage direction: “Message: I care.” You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Fortunately, O’Neill was a copious writer of stage directions, sometimes giving long, meticulous descriptions of his characters as they are introduced and precise indications of both actions and their emotional inflection. | 'The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O?Neill Volume 1': Neo Futurists Present Stage Directions From O?Neill Plays 2011-09-13T02:05:01Z I found her voice Season 1 in one of the stage directions. Uzo Aduba Gives Voice to Hidden Figures 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z I am a huge fan and defender of interpretive stage direction when it works, but there is a kind of default area. Review | Russell Thomas headlines bleak ‘Otello’ at WNO 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The original text includes no stage directions, no dialogue, no characters. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z “I make stage directions more about intention than instructions.” You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z With mythologically named characters sometimes voicing their stage directions and inner narration, the plays seemed mannered, and the productions felt groomed to slickness. Review | ‘Moonlight’ writer McCraney’s writing still glows in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The defining moment, the transition to comedy, happened when the scriptwriter Marion Hargrove added the stage direction: "Maverick looks at him with his beady little eyes." James Garner obituary 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z It includes a cheeky, rueful stage direction for a male actor and a hunky puppet: “side by side, they simulate a sexual act, which means this play will never be performed in Texas.” With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z William Shakespeare's original stage directions read: "At this point I'll run on and do a kind of funny dance with a garden gnome rolling around on top of my head and it'll be hilarious." Gnomeo and Juliet: a gnome by any other name ... 2010-09-29T09:38:00Z The stage direction is traditional, lively and effective. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z That description comes straight from the script’s stage directions, which are read aloud in a raspy voice by Mr. Earle, who observes and annotates the action from behind a music stand. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z All of it matters: singing, concept, sets, costumes, lighting, stage direction and stage business. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z I employed outrageous stage directions to usher in the settings and altered my voice to portray 27 characters. In His Own Words: David Greenspan, Actor and Playwright 2010-03-26T16:28:00Z “But then they got me to read the stage directions at the workshops,” he said recently over a Chinese dinner, talking nonstop while trying to avoid getting crispy beef caught in his long salt-and-pepper beard. How Steve Earle Got Back Into Downtown Theater 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Blogging Shakespeare Bard discussions including his finest stage directions and his best female characters. Internet picks of the week 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z The stage directions describe his first entrance this way: “John enters in a wheelchair. He is beautiful.” Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The domestic scenes are arranged downstage, as specified in Fornés’ elaborate stage directions, which have had to be modified. In 'The Conduct of Life,' witness an American classic that's more often taught than staged 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z In his stage directions, Beckett spent 195 words choreographing some horseplay involving hats. ‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Old Friends Falling in and Out of Sync 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z I even invented my own geographical area for the purpose, enshrined in the stage direction: The play is set in an industrial town somewhere in the Mid-Pennines. Tony Scott and the image of northern England 2012-08-20T11:08:00Z Way back when, she portrayed the stage manager, and she slips into that play’s manner of spoken stage directions as she describes the last days of preparation for this year’s performance. 'Ripe Frenzy,' a play about a school shooting, provokes thought with lyricism and restraint 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z And Mr. Lepage is sometimes surprisingly faithful to Wagner’s stage directions. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z Exit, pursued by a bear,” is the seemingly ludicrous stage direction, just before a main character is devoured offstage. ‘The Winter’s Tale’: The blockbuster ballet that almost wasn’t 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Trump’s cast of thousands awaits their next stage direction from a deranged director with no intention of leaving the stage. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Mike Leigh, one of Britain's most celebrated film directors, is returning to stage direction after a five year absence. AUDIO: Director Mike Leigh returns to stage 2011-03-09T09:46:05Z Her dramatic intensity burned through the constraints of the stilted stage directions. ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea,’ a Robert Wilson Production 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Jeff Caldwell’s straightforward stage direction at least steered far clear of mugging. Opera Review: ‘Agrippina’ by Operamission Sees Rome in a Satiric Light 2014-01-22T16:44:15Z Recall the stage directions in “King Lear”: “Enter Lear with Cordelia in his arms.” A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Well, that and the stage directions in the script, which conclude, “Most importantly, this play should not be well behaved.” Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Bernthal added that Pelecanos’s intense attention to detail extended to all corners of the production, from the deeply descriptive stage directions in the scripts to the makes and models of the cars in each scene. ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Daniel's comment, then, reads as little more than stage direction, as if even Smith were aware that the conflicts in his story remain under-felt. 'The Farm' cultivates little suspense for a thriller 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z I am always struck, for instance, when reading Tom Stoppard's plays, how elegant, witty and precise his stage directions are. What's the best way to test a novel before you read it? 2010-09-28T08:54:00Z Beckett’s precisely choreographed stage directions and his interest in mime — an important element of several of his major plays — nonetheless suggest a connection to movement that the festival could develop. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “Virtual Realms” retrofits the script and stage directions to maximize online formats in clever ways. Queer Kids, Nerds and Sword Fights: It’s the Hot School Play 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In any case, “Personal Shopper” puts Stewart through scenes and texts so closely defined as to allow her little leeway beyond the narrow margins of stage directions. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Though written for three voices, this meditation on pregnancy and childbirth takes the form of poetic stanzas and lacks named characters, stage directions, dialogue – all the markers by which we recognise a text for performance. What makes a play unstageable? 2010-09-28T15:18:00Z What’s the protocol when a stage direction calls for a kiss? Perspective | Once more unto the breach: Shakespeare returns to the Shenandoah Valley 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z With a libretto and stage direction by Joël Pommerat, this adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s tale of a marionette’s path to truth and redemption is a darkly entertaining piece of music theater. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The production also ignores a critical stage direction calling for the cousins’ space to shrink discernibly. Review: ‘Lost Voices’ Confronts the Rising Tide of Climate Change 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The crackle of stage directions over a headset momentarily pierced a few bars of pizzicato, as Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist and 2011 honoree, offered a solo performance as the lone in-person tribute for the ceremony. The Toasts Are Mimed, but the Kennedy Center Honors Return 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Strong: Jesse Armstrong, the writer, had written this stage direction that there’s a moment where Kendall’s up on the top of the boat and finds out definitively that his father is gone. Jeremy Strong, Christina Ricci, Helen Mirren, more reveal the inner workings of their series 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z I have a tendency to obsess over the stage directions, which are not in the movie. Wes Anderson on his new ’50s-set film ‘Asteroid City,’ AI and all those TikTok videos 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z For example, they can’t make cuts for time, make minor changes to dialogue or even change stage directions. Hollywood's writers are on strike. Here's five things you need to know 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z The Vietnamese characters speak in what the stage directions refer to as “Broadcast English.” Review: Dustin H. Chinn's new Chance Theater comedy serves up the cultural politics of food 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z 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. Review | Isabella Hammad tackles ‘Hamlet’ and politics in her clever new novel 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z In the stage directions to “Lonely Stardust,” Hairston describes how she wants her audience to relate to her play. The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z But she also liked how Piercey urged them to revise any phrases or stage directions they didn’t like. Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z As written in Hunter’s script, the stage directions of that breath simply read, “A sharp intake of breath. The lights snap to black.” The ‘cathartic release’ of ‘The Whale’ explained by the play’s actors and directors 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Danish theater director Kasper Holten, who is handling he stage direction, said it would be wrong to cancel the opera, “which is about unmasking power.” La Scala says Russian opera is not propaganda for Putin 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The game partner read everything that wasn’t the actor’s lines, including the stage directions. Inside the Actor’s Living Room: How to nail your self-tape audition 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Within the draft of your script, create stage directions. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In addition to rehearsing speeches, she also said the president’s team should put directions such as “end quote” in a different color so he doesn’t, as has happened, say stage directions. Biden’s teleprompter gaffes hurting presidency 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Flockhart is also impressed with the precision of Albee’s text — the ellipses, the exclamation points, the capital letters, the detailed stage directions. Calista Flockhart on playing a storied role in Edward Albee's theatrical battle of wits 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He wrote down explicit stage directions as well as expressive and interpretative notations that he normally would have given his singers in person. Vivaldi opera gets premiere in Ferrara nearly 300 years late 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Watching it, Ropiequet thought, “Oh, no, this is just going to keep going, isn’t it? And yes, she was reading every single line of stage direction and then the other roles’ lines obviously as well.” Inside the Actor’s Living Room: How to nail your self-tape audition 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Using the principle illustrated above, create stage directions for your script. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Hammerstein then proceeded to go through every stage direction, every song, every scene, every line of dialogue. Stephen Sondheim, central figure in American musical theater, dies at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Biden, who has long been known for a stubborn streak, doesn’t take stage directions as willingly as Reagan did. Our oldest president just turned 79. He might have something to learn from the second-oldest 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. McAuliffe could be forgiven for effectively reading his stage directions out loud. Terry McAuliffe’s Other Obstacle in Virginia Race: Democrats’ Apathy 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Whenever she tries to connect with him, he brushes her off and attempts to justify it in a conversation that leaves Heidi, according to the script’s stage directions, “utterly at sea”: Onstage, 'Dear Evan Hansen' praises parents. The movie betrays them 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Remember that writing is recursive: you can make changes based on what works and what doesn’t after you implement your stage directions. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But, at least for the moment, oil and gas companies are not following those old stage directions. Why $4-a-gallon gas may be coming your way this summer 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Prince-Bythewood found the core of their conflict in the stage directions. For 'Old Guard' director, action is nothing without depth of character and story 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The stage directions disrupt the comfortable tedium with an uncanny ping: “Suddenly a distant sound is heard, as if from the sky, like the sound of a snapped string mournfully dying away.” Review: Playwright Richard Nelson's pandemic Zoom trilogy comes to a whispering end 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Louis’s work reads, at times, like a performance of his emotions, and it’s easy to see how the text might turn into stage directions. ‘I Always Write With a Sense of Shame’ 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z She then spoke to her students for nearly an hour about shaping a story’s beginning and ending, crafting character-defining choices and penning effective stage directions. Ever wanted to be a playwright? Amid coronavirus, big names offer to teach you 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Anne is the narrator and introduces the program, as the stage directions called for, “in clipped Rod Serling style.” Twilight Time: Long-lost Rod Serling baseball comedy on deck 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Instead, he sends copious notes, and his scripts’ stage directions communicate his intentions. The Bard of American Privilege 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Now, intimacy coordinators are bringing a new element to the set - desexualised language to interpret the stage directions. The women helping Hollywood shoot safer sex scenes 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z The best part of the film is simply watching the cast translate the tweets’ stage direction. Zola proves that a viral Twitter thread can make a great movie 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Her stage directions had stalled out into silence. ‘Mouthful by mouthful’: the 2019 Bad sex award in quotes 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Climbing up to her balcony is not however in the stage directions. Lovesick teen scales German prison wall to see ex 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet Trump’s penchant for reading the stage directions almost seems to inoculate him from the kind of political damage that would devastate other politicians. How Trump tries to quell controversies by saying the quiet part out loud 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z "Here you don't 'grope', you make muscle-level contact with the front of your partner's body," she says, using non-sexual language to interpret the stage directions, as the two actors repeat a set of movements. The women helping Hollywood shoot safer sex scenes 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Bill Irwin adds another accolade: Author of some of the best stage directions ever. For Bill Irwin, master interpreter of Samuel Beckett, even the unspoken word matters 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z When the soldier says, “Now kiss me!,” the stage directions call for “a long deep kiss” from Tweeden. The Case of Al Franken 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Because what actually happens is all in the stage directions. Daenerys’ fate on ‘Game of Thrones’ ‘was difficult and enormously emotional’ for Emilia Clarke 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Or they had a stage direction where she’s talking to someone from Qatar, and they are speaking Farsi — it’s Arabic there. Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are in a political rom-com. This guy helped them get Washington right — kind of. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z And all of Baby Dil's lines were in the stage direction. 'My Little Pony' star Tara Strong was 'quite surprised' by 'Bronies' on social media: 'I just adore them' 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z In all his scripts, his stage directions were minimal but his attention to pacing was fanatical. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Galt MacDermot, our composer, set everything to music, even the stage directions – unlike Herbie Hancock, who was asked to write music for one of our songs, and returned it with half the lyrics cut. How we made Hair 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z In the script, she wrote herself the stage direction “HEIDI releases any last remnants of the buoyant, performative girlishness that is one of her lifelong coping mechanisms.” Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z There’s some experimentation with form here — the title story has screenplay-ish stage directions between its vignettes; “The Drive” uses intentional repetition to create a numbing rhythm, adding tension to the awkward moment it depicts. For Valentine’s Day, a roundup of books about love — in all its forms 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Pierre Audi, who directed the La Scala production, stayed close to Beckett’s stage directions, though the characters are seen outside a decrepit old house rather than in its interior. György Kurtág, with his Opera of “Endgame,” Proves To Be Beckett’s Equal 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “In the pilot there was a stage direction that said, ‘Rose enters as if in her own MGM musical.’ Rachel Brosnahan on 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' season 2: 'We felt immediately like it was going to be bigger' 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z While the sung text of the two characters is poetically elliptical, Perkins includes a novel’s degree of descriptive motivation, all but taking on the jobs of music and stage direction. Review: With Ellen Reid's incandescent 'prism,' an opera composer is born 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In large letters were her stage directions: “Slow, Pause, Determined.” Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Elias now notices Ibsen’s parenthetical stage direction—that Dr. Relling should ask the question “with a slight tremor in his voice.” Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z With Mendes reading the stage directions, the cast cantered through the first act, then broke for lunch. Sam Mendes’s Directorial Discoveries 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Even the stage directions were a character: Fade in. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Even with all this experience, Bonney says, some of the “Nikki Corona” stage directions took her aback. Is there comedy in death? Playwright José Rivera on the dark twists of 'Nikki Corona' 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Playwright Annie Baker's first stage direction for "The Aliens" begins with an admonition: "This is important: At least a third — if not half — of this play is silence." Wasted youth: The drama of the unspoken isn’t enough in Annie Baker’s “The Aliens” at 12th Ave Arts 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Moments earlier, the room buzzed with energy as one Angel City Chorale member called out last-minute stage directions. An American scholar was killed in South Africa nearly 25 years ago. Today her legacy lives on through music 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z “Message: I care,” he announced, as if reading aloud the stage directions. Opinion | I really don’t care about Trump’s cruelty, do u? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He spoke on Shakespeare's stage direction, "Exit, Pursued by a Bear". Just A Minute host misses first show in 50 years 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Small said a favorite course was introduction to theater, exposing him to texts, playwrights and stage directions. ‘Could I make it in college?’: His journey to a bachelor’s degree started behind bars 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z At others, it just seems like they’re following the stage directions. Wasted youth: The drama of the unspoken isn’t enough in Annie Baker’s “The Aliens” at 12th Ave Arts 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Our Gang, published in 1971 straight after Portnoy's Complaint, is a political satire written almost entirely in dialogue with occasional stage directions. Obituary: Philip Roth, the author who scandalised middle America 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The slumbering bodies are arranged in tableau fashion, as the stage directions prescribe. A revelatory Denzel Washington in 'The Iceman Cometh' 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z As Williams wrote of Blanche in his stage directions, “There is something about her uncertain manner…that suggests a moth.” Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In his lifetime, Samuel Beckett was careful to police new productions of his plays: stage directions had to be followed to the letter. Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z She is drawn to material that she doesn’t entirely comprehend but that has a mood, a line, a joke, a stage direction that inspires strong emotion in her. Laurie Metcalf Was Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z “The distant sound of a broken string”, which Anton Chekhov described in a stage direction to “The Cherry Orchard” in 1904, grew only louder over the following decade. The legacy of the Russian revolution can still be felt today 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It was important to protect myself and others from suffering, but I also yearned to ensure that I, not the cancer, was issuing the stage directions. Perspective | I’m dying of brain cancer. I prepared to end my life. Then I kept living. 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z His blurting out of his political stage directions was a vintage moment of Trumpian indiscretion. Trump’s Big Gamble: Can He Pull Alabama Senator to Victory? 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z “Teh Internet,” by Welsh playwright Tim Price, dramatizes a digital movement that temporarily hamstrung corporations and corrupt governments — and offers no stage directions. 10 things you need to know about ‘Teh Internet Is Serious Business.’ The last one will blow your mind! 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Rushdie plays with narrative forms throughout as well - from Rene’s first-person account to character monologues to entire scenes imagined as a screenplay, complete with stage directions. Rushdie crafts modern masterpiece in ‘The Golden House’ 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Even the stage directions are lean and muscular. Sam Shepard's terrifying, hilarious rage 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z I remember the matter-of-fact stage direction “Wesley enters again from right carrying a small live lamb” in Curse of the Starving Class and feeling like I’d been given permission to write anything I wanted. Sam Shepard was wild at heart and mapped the American soul 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z But rarely has the ham-fistedness felt so all-consuming, infusing even the simplest of tasks from a president who, seeing little need for subtext, tends to read the bracketed stage directions aloud. Trump as a Novel: An Implausible ‘Soap Opera Without the Sex and Fun’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Props go out to her willing subject, Jonathan, for accepting her cringe-worthy stage directions in stride. Chrissy Teigen Hilariously Pranked People on Awkward Dates 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Still, a 2-hour, 40-minute play with a cascade of short scenes and accompanying, challenging stage directions does invite a certain amount of grumbling — and mishap. Folger’s ‘Sense and Sensibility': a hit that’s always moving 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The stage directions, though cheeky and fun at points, are overly vague, leaving much to be desired in descriptions of setting and action scenes. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Book critics disappointed with script - BBC News 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Pence's teleprompter displayed the stage direction "embrace" just after his acceptance speech Wednesday at the Republican National Convention. Twitter talks Donald Trump's 'air kiss' of Mike Pence 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Pence’s teleprompter displayed the stage direction “embrace” just after his acceptance speech Wednesday at the Republican National Convention. Twitter talks Donald Trump's 'air kiss' of Mike Pence 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z There are eldritch screams, agonised physical contortions, highly formal enunciations of speeches and stage directions alike. Isabelle Huppert: ‘I’d love to work with Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Handwritten or typed plays by Mr. Clemens’s oldest daughter, Susy, show how seriously she took her writing, even as a teenager; they include stage directions, set designs and costume notes. Mark Twain House Puts Spotlight on 3 Lesser-Known Masterworks: His Daughters 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “They have to be marked in a stage direction or described by another character,” says Crouch. Is this a bloodbath I see before me? The 75 deaths of Shakespeare 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Bruno said the first week that there was nowhere to go but up, and Flutie took that as stage direction. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Mischa Barton forgotten in 'Most Memorable Year' 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The story, though serious, is also playful, with stage directions sometimes read aloud by the actors, and the humor is genuine and unforced. Two Reunions, Bittersweet and Foreboding, in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Kail handled stage direction, while Rudzinski handled the increasingly uncommon craft of live broadcast direction. Grease Live: the live musical you should've watched 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Duerfahrd, author of The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis, believes prison’s intense, hushed, rule-bound environment is a precise echo of the qualities of Beckett’s dialogue and stage direction. Beckett's prison protege: the inmate who became a top interpreter of writer's work 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z When voters descend for photographs, an aide often whispers stage directions in Mr. Cruz’s ear — “girl to your left,” “over here,” “we’ve got to go” — calling to mind the television show “Veep.” After Making Enemies, Ted Cruz Works at Making Friends 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The vocal description is a narration track interspersed between existing pauses in dialogue that describes the show’s visual elements such as facial expressions, settings, costumes and stage direction. ‘The Wiz Live!’ to air vocal description for sight-impaired 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The vocal description is a narration track interspersed between existing pauses in dialogue that describes the show's visual elements such as facial expressions, settings, costumes and stage direction. NBC's 'The Wiz Live!' to include vocal description as pioneering service for sight-impaired 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z According to Bruce Wagner, who wrote the screenplay for “Maps to the Stars,” Moore, who never reads stage directions, is “a brutal parser of the text.” Julianne Moore, Beauty and a Beast 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Other actors who circled the project were all white, and we didn’t change a single stage direction or line to accommodate the fact that I’m a black actor playing that role. David Oyelowo creates a tortured soul in HBO’s ‘Nightingale’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The set for her new production largely dispenses with O'Neill's very literal stage directions and presents the audience with a dreamlike setting which evokes Connecticut in a way which Beckett would recognise. Young Vic ventures into Eugene O'Neill's Wilderness 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z At that point, a stage direction advised: “Optional: Insert Brief Personal Statement.” How a Knock on the Door Can Change Public Opinion 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The detailed stage directions for Act Two, set on the Western Front in the fury of battle, seem to call for the resources of modern cinema rather than a West End playhouse. National revives Irish anti-war play 2014-04-21T23:59:23Z The play features music from the period, too, and while her version sticks to Heller's words, the director admits taking liberties with his stage directions. Rare airing for Heller's Catch-22 staging 2014-04-20T23:37:48Z As Tugendhat helpfully explained, "innocent face" was to be read as a stage direction. Sally Bercow learns the social media rules the hard way in McAlpine case 2013-05-24T16:33:13Z The same little Obama who plaintively blurted “Daddy, what city are you in?” at the big screen after her mother’s 2008 convention speech now was giving her father stage direction. Why Americans care about the Obamas 2013-01-18T20:03:17Z Stung by accusations that he was disconnected from the economic struggles of average Americans, Mr. Bush fueled them by giving New Hampshire voters this piece of political stage direction. Political Memo: Romney Is Latest in a Long Line to Trip Over a Tongue 2012-09-20T15:49:30Z Romney is remarkably candid, almost as though he’s reading the stage directions, about why he won’t offer up details: he thinks it will undermine his chances to win. Romney’s Unlikely Trouble With Details 2012-06-25T10:30:10Z But I imagine it was all overridden by a single internal stage direction, which his lordship repeated frantically to himself as he was waiting to speak: Don't say "symbol". Love London 2012, if only for the madness and the mirth 2012-05-18T19:27:40Z The stage directions are distinguished in the like manner. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-23T02:00:31.657Z Had space permitted, we should gladly have quoted some of the verses and stage directions of these court shows. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z At the end of Lazarus is a stage direction to the effect that if the performance has been given at matins, Lazarus should proceed with the Te Deum, if at vespers, with the Magnificat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Sc. 2., where the stage direction is, "Enter the two Kings, hand in hand,"—where they probably did so—"smelling at one nosegay," although no such direction occurs; or to Act V. Sc. 1., Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-11T03:00:15.507Z Plot he disregards, and he is fond of throwing his dialogues into regular dramatic form, with by-play prescribed and stage directions interspersed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z After all, you can hardly run a five-Act comedy on stage directions and a single epigram, though I admit that the attempt has been made. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z "Make your lively battel and let it be long," says the stage direction. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z At the Rose Tavern, stage directions for Rakewell state "the actor must let his intoxication gradually increase." The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) 2012-01-25T03:00:37.903Z So when her lover proposed a runaway match, she felt that she was bound to comply with the usual stage directions. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Is it time for a Shakespearean stage direction: Exit the humanities, pursued by a bear? Animal Studies Move From the Lab to the Lecture Hall 2012-01-02T18:42:53Z L'Estrange even provides stage directions and indicates action in the speeches of the characters. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z It has been said that this scene is not really so sickening as it is alleged to be, since the stage directions require that Salome's kisses be bestowed in the obscurity of a darkened stage. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z To begin with, let us note the stage directions. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z It was the modesty of the people before whom Adam in the Chester mystery play was required by the stage directions to "stand nakyd and not be ashamyd." An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z In a play the materials that the dramatist uses to this end are character, plot, dialogue, and stage direction. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z “His right arm falls to his side,” according to the stage directions, “but he still clutches the manuscript to his chest with the left as he sinks into a chair.” Books on Science: Fiddling With a Two-Year Gap in the Busy Life of Copernicus 2011-10-17T21:45:40Z I've never seen plays, of course, but I have read them, and know 80 stage directions when I see them in the flesh. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z —Sneck up is a stage direction for hiccup, which Sir Toby was likely to observe after his "pickle herring." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:34.553Z Indeed, the often hilarious stage directions give us good insight into the capabilities of the Restoration stage. The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce 2011-09-15T02:00:12.030Z But he wasn’t helped by some of the stage direction and the orchestra under Domingo, which was overpowering and stultifying at times. Racette?s Tosca can?t save her lover, but gets Washington National Opera off to a good start 2011-09-13T22:35:55Z The same reasoning was applicable to the practice of putting the stage direction "aside" at the end of a sentence. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z “His is, in fact, mostly a cut-and-paste job from the work of O’Brien, with stage directions added in marker pen.” Too Greedy to Fail 2011-08-05T16:18:36Z I like to think of the parish priest as fulfilling the Shakespearean stage direction—'Scene: a public place. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z So again, afterwards, as a rousing self-direction, one sees notified in MS. on page 107 the grim stage direction, ‘Murder coming!’ Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z The asterisked stage directions that sprang to life thanks to Twitter's lack of text formatting do not work here. Google+ guide: how good is it? 2011-07-12T19:00:05Z Otherwise a writer easily falls into writing unemotionalized speeches, the stage directions of which call upon the actor to provide the emotion. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z He watched Tabio, pausing to gain strength, mutely protesting with glazed eyes the obvious stage directions of the doctors who ended this visit. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z Elizabeth, according to stage directions, should have entered "seated upon a magnificent white horse," but preferred to walk in. Punch 1893.07.29 2011-04-01T02:00:37.493Z Then, according to stage directions, "Enter a pomp of clowns and country girls," who dance a morris-dance, while the chorus sings about spring and maying. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Scarcely a moment was left me to shelter myself among the leaves, when the door opened, "discovering," as stage directions would say, Mr. Dodd and Mrs. Gore Hampton in conversation. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z L. 2 E., D.L.C., etc., which characterized stage directions of the early Victorian period. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Upon which follows the stage direction—"Pours poison into his ear." The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z The stage directions are in a bolder hand and deep black ink. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z This is the more curious, as there are fewer references to music in the text or the stage directions than in most of the plays. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The stage direction is of course purely conjectural. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z Of course, from time to time one needs such stage directions, but the safest way is to insist, in early drafts, on making the text convey the desired emotion without such statements. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z In this, the poem consists solely of dialogue and descriptions of action which may be taken as stage direction. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z I may be the most uncoordinated person ever, literally stumbling through my life like I’m following the stage directions for a Family Channel kids’ show. Castrodale: Taking the cheer out of cheerleading 2010-10-21T22:09:00Z When Shakespeare wanted music he said so, either in his stage directions or in the text. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Seated on the empty stage with Mr. Pollock at the reading were three other performers with Broadway credits, as well as Michelle Federer, an actress from Maplewood, who read the stage directions. | New Jersey: ?Where Broadway Comes Home to Sleep? 2010-08-28T00:02:00Z Such unnecessary but crudely effective movement Stevenson burlesqued more than once in the stage directions of his Macaire. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z I don't know about you but my favourite stage direction has always been "alarums and excursions". Bard times 2010-05-14T16:41:00Z All stage directions have been uniformly formatted to a left uniform indent instead of a right page margin. Yolanda of Cyprus The close of the act must be very effective, according to the stage directions, when properly done. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The best stage directions are those that deal only with matters of setting, lighting and essential pantomime or action. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors It is the stage direction which gives us that information. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z “Well, well!” he cried, rubbing his hands gleefully, “the great performance is over; and it is evident the modern bride and bridegroom profit by the old stage direction: ‘Flourish of trumpets! Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance Did you red ink your stage directions in, with the margin wide, like he wants? Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole In the stage directions, R. stands for Right; L. for Left. Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 After the mad scene, for example, the stage directions read that the ballet "waltzes sadly away." Interpreters An intelligent producer who reads the play with comprehension but follows only the letter of the stage directions gives a production no more than adequate at best. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The stage directions are full and minute; and, if meant for perusal only, and to be part of the poem, they are beyond the ridiculous. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 By what symbolism can Shakespeare’s stage directions in the Trial scene be represented on the stage? Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition In the stage directions, goes about means, makes a movement. Minor Poems by Milton But my friend's features suddenly darkened as if he were obeying a stage direction like, "here he suddenly assumes a grave face." Eyes Like the Sea Surely writing stage directions will differ from the narration and description of a novel. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Troy type, with stage directions in Chaucer type. The Art and Craft of Printing I confess my symbolic imagination was completely gravelled, and in the absence of any symbolic substitute, I have been compelled to fall back on the stage directions. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition The following stage direction occurs in it: "Ionas the prophet cast out of the whales belly upon the stage." The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Pope had said that this nonsense crept in from the name of the property man who was named Greenfield, and thus there must have been a stage direction here,—"Bring in a table of Greenfield's." An Introduction to Shakespeare Just as dialogue for the stage is incomplete without the 12 actor, so, too, the stage direction needs filling out. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z For, you see, Aunt Elizabeth Jane's method was to go steadily on with a text, and not distinguish titles and stage directions. When Ghost Meets Ghost Additional stage directions in the list below are marked in the text with a mouse hover. The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge As for landscape, he was content to under-line stage directions, as it might be done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) As in the case of Romeo and Juliet, the stage directions are mere descriptions. An Introduction to Shakespeare The latter is trusted to fill out, in as full detail as his means or his desires permit, the hints of stage directions as to setting and atmosphere. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Nothing in the text or in the stage directions of the original edition gives even color to such an opinion. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 This has necessitated a somewhat minute consideration of exits and entrances, and a special list of necessary stage directions has been added below after the usual list of irregular readings. The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge She came to the minute when her stage directions called for "Lord Gregory," and she sang it with the same thin, silvery piping which was all she could contribute now to the demand of drama. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Nevertheless the "seacoast of Bohemia," so often ridiculed as Shakespeare's stage direction, is found in Greene's story. An Introduction to Shakespeare This included the scenic descriptions and stage directions. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The three monks, with white scarfs, hasten in by the door at the back of Nevers's room, without making any account of the stage directions, which enjoin on them to advance slowly. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories He has taken the whole burden of the stage direction off my hands. The Light of the Star A Novel Here, again, we will consult the stage directions, as giving the best idea of the incidents and scenes. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot The simple stage direction of the Folios is retained. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Notice that the statement just formulated as to stage directions reads, “cannot be conveyed,” not “may not.” Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Then, following the stage direction, the Marquise entered “tristement sur la sc�ne.” Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange He had attended the try-out on the polite invitation of Professor Harmon, and at the latter's earnest solicitation had agreed to take charge of the stage direction of the operetta. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore The first act comprehends the fall of the angels—the introductory stage direction commanding that the theatrical clouds, and the whole sky to boot, shall open when Heaven is named! Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot This is an expression occurring repeatedly in old stage directions. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar The instances cited from her prompt book of the play show one soliloquy cut to stage directions and two lines of the original, and the second cut to mere stage direction. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The author seldom makes any reflections at all; and his descriptions, with, of course, some famous exceptions, are little more than longish stage directions. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century When he appears, the stage directions show that the "citizens steal away." Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare K., the stage directions are, “Villagers hurry on, shouting.” Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle The Folios have no 'Exit' or stage direction after l. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar By use of pantomime, in some cases hardly more than the pantomime called for in the stage directions, she disposed of all except an occasional line or two of the original soliloquies. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z One actor was obviously intended to play many parts, for stage directions such as "Go out Ynglond, and dress for Clargy" are by no means uncommon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" In the stage directions of this scene, Shakespeare shows his own opinion of the mob by writing, "Enter Cade and his rabblement." Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Be sure to review, too, over and over again, the eight stage directions—front, left oblique, left, left oblique back, back, right oblique back, right, and right oblique. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession In this edition Rowe, an experienced playwright, marked the entrances and exits of the characters and introduced many stage directions and the list of dramatis personæ which has been the basis for all later lists. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar By “business” is meant ordinarily either illustrative action called for by a stage direction or clearly implied in the text. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The thing, in short, is most like an intensely intricate dance, with endless figures—with elaborate, innumerable, and sometimes indescribable stage directions. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 With the sole exception of Smith, he was absolutely unacquainted with the theatric abilities of his company or how far he could rely on them to carry into effect his stage directions. A Pirate of Parts Amateur organizations all over the country are beginning to realize the necessity for professional stage direction in order to register success, both artistically and financially. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession This, the Folio stage direction, suggests a mob. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar The acting of the next seven lines of stage direction held an audience with increasing intensity of feeling for some five minutes. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z There are hints of his character in his laws, that are as stage directions, telling of the entrances and exits of his people, though the drama of their day is gone. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Produced under the stage direction of the Author. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame It takes, therefore, practical stage direction to realize all the possibilities of stage atmosphere in a practical way. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession It was probably as chief of the Julian Luperci that he officiated on this occasion, stripped, as the old stage direction has it, "for the course." The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Re-enter the dean, O. P., as our stage directions would have had it, with—a pair of stays! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Let me allay it, and follow the stage directions of “soft music;” only on this occasion we omit the music, and take the rhyme. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Normal contractions are used in the non-dialogue parts of this book, such as the preface and stage directions. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates And there are certain stage directions which you must know in order to grasp my method of instruction. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Rowe added "with his sword drawn" to the Folio stage direction, basing the note on l. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar His characters appear, speak their parts and vanish with no explanatory words from him except the occasional stage direction limited to the fewest possible words. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Opinions vary as to whether the poet-pirate was at that time acting in collusion with Rome—his defiance and their thunders being included in the stage directions—or whether he was a real rebel. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 It is too bad that letters cannot be published with stage directions. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The name of the maid of the inn is given as Cicely Hacket, and the alehouse is described in the stage direction as ‘on a heath.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles ‘Panthion’ occurs in F1, among ‘the names of all the actors,’ and in a stage direction at the beginning of Act II Sc. Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] I., in 1769. xxxvii He described, much more minutely than Pope had done, the places of the scenes, and made many changes, generally for the better, in the stage directions. The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising End-of-line stage directions in the text have been placed on their own lines. The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold In general, only differences in wording are included; variations in spelling and punctuation were disregarded, and stage directions are omitted unless significant. The Comedies of Terence Here is one of those rare and tremendous moments of which one may say that there is a stage direction, “Enter Shakespeare.” Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens ‘Panthino’ is found twice in the text, and once in a stage direction at the beginning of Act I. Sc. Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Cuts, additions, and alterations were made for acting purposes, stage directions were added with or without the assistance of the author, revivals of the play called for revision by the original writer or another. The Facts About Shakespeare Embedded stage directions in the text have been left in situ, enclosed in square brackets. The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Occasional obvious typos in the stage directions have been corrected. De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Ibsen, in a single stage direction, gives you more than you would find in a chapter of a novel. Figures of Several Centuries See note on stage direction at beginning of this scene. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois The majority of stage directions in modern editions, except exits and entrances, are due to editors from Rowe onwards, and these unauthorized additions are distinguished in the Tudor edition by brackets. The Facts About Shakespeare The stage directions are as follows:— A. and B. fight Cut I ... The Peace Egg and Other tales Her back was toward the audience throughout the scene, according to stage directions, yet she managed to convey embarrassment, fright, terror, determination, decision in the agonized twisting of those expressive feet. Gigolo And often, in an emergency a good moving picture camera operator can save a film from being spoiled by improvising some "stage directions," if I may call them such. The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film The stage directions in B are numerous and precise, and I have made only a few additions, which are enclosed in brackets. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois The sacred plays were not divided into acts, but the stage directions make it plain that scenes were changed. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Remember that Right and Left in stage directions mean the right and left hand of the actor as he faces the audience. The Peace Egg and Other tales In the Bridgewater MS. the stage direction here is, Song ends. Milton's Comus The Cornet was an entirely different instrument, and the use of it accordingly is very much more limited in these stage directions. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries See note on stage direction at beginning of the scene. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois The stage directions are not the least remarkable part of this play. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera And the stage directions are "The sea, with a ship." Plays of Near & Far "Throw yourself into it with abandon, as the stage directions call for." The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas This call is named in the stage directions 7 times in five plays, viz.—H. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries In the stage directions Left and Right mean Left and Right of actor, as he faces audience. The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts Throughout the play we meet with such stage directions as 'the devils are to run about the stage with suitable gestures', or the Devil 'shall make a sally amongst the people'. The Growth of English Drama No valid reason can be adduced why persons should appear on the stage who are not precisely indicated by the text of the play or by the authentic stage directions. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The use of parentheses in stage directions is as in the original. Krindlesyke The stage direction in Shakespeare may be taken to mean—'Let the hautboys be added to the usual band of strings.' Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries The composer had died some months earlier, but his minute stage directions were accurately observed. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Any one who notices the stage directions will see that the persons of the drama frequently speak "after a pause." An Introduction to the Study of Browning Lord Chancellor Brougham in a peroration once knelt to the assembled peers, 'Here the noble lord inclined his knee to the Woolsack' is, if I remember, the stage direction in Hansard. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Then memorizing the lines will fix these stage directions in his mind. Public Speaking To give a just idea of the amount of Stage Music considered necessary in or near Shakespeare's time, there must be added to the above, all the stage directions in other terms—e.g., Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries In the original most of the stage directions were not set apart from the rest of the text. The Interlude of Wealth and Health Plan your stage directions with the help of some other drama, as, for instance, that given on page 52. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists From the preface, as well as the stage directions, it appears that a vast expence was incurred, in shew, dress, and machinery. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 They insert a large number of stage directions covering this matter. Public Speaking Out of the 72 cases in the stage directions, 70 mean a call to battle by drums. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries I separated the stage directions from the text and put them in italics. The Interlude of Wealth and Health Do not attempt too much at once, but think out carefully the setting, the stage directions, and the dialogue for a brief fragment of a play. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists After a preliminary reading of a story during the study period, the teacher may assign different parts to various children, she herself reading the stage directions and the other brief descriptions unclosed in brackets. Children's Classics in Dramatic Form Book Two Steevens calls them "a mysterious fragment of ancient stage direction," and adds, that "the paper describes a species of dramatic entertainment of which no memorial is preserved in any annals of the English stage." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The word is used 13 times in the text of Shakespeare; and in 6 of these it refers to drums, as in the stage directions H. 6. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries This arises from the stage directions, which supply the place of the terrific and beautiful descriptions of Milton. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Indicate the speech of each person, and put in all necessary stage directions. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists "The Masque of Queen Bersabe" is a miracle play, and imitates the rough naïveté of the old Scriptural drama, with its grotesque stage directions and innocent anachronisms. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The only stage directions required will occur at once to you. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 C. I, ii, 69, where the stage direction is A march afar off, which is immediately followed by 'I hear their drums.' Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries A stage direction in Ravenscroft's alteration of "Titus Andronicus," bears, "A curtain drawn, discovers the heads and hands of Demetrius and Chiron hanging up against the wall; their bodies in chairs, in bloody linen." The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Note how much the stage directions add to the clearness of the scene. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists That stage direction I caught at, and by a happy 'improvisation' spread it over the entire play. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 The singers themselves often came to me for stage directions about their parts, knowing I had this experience. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers It is perhaps worth noting, that of the seven tuckets in the stage directions, only one, Goneril's, is supposed to be an English one. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries In the seventh scene of the third act of "King Richard III.," a stage direction runs: "Enter Gloucester in a gallery above, between two bishops." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character "My dearest!" said Mrs. Hipgrave; and a stage direction might add: "Business with brows, as before." McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Ancient dramas come down to us with no stage directions and very imperfect indications of the speakers. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes In both these two plays of the bard's, and in connection with the Masque plays, we see, from the stage directions in them, how Pantomime formed part of their effective representation. A History of Pantomime There are also over three hundred stage directions which are musical in their nature, and these occur in thirty-six out of thirty-seven plays. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries The proposition is agreed to, and thereupon, according to stage direction, "Harlequin is produced from a bed of parti-coloured flowers, and the magic sword is given to him." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Bounding with rage, the Court functionary made an unbecoming gesture, such as Mephistopheles, according to the stage directions, should make in one of the passages of Goethe's Faust. The Bed-Book of Happiness Here we have the words in full, the scene and action being left to the imagination except as briefly sketched in the stage direction. A Librarian's Open Shelf The records of the French theatre demonstrate this fact; in the "Mystery of Saint Barbara," we find this stage direction:—Pausa. A History of Pantomime The word sale, which is used as a stage direction, meaning not exit, but he enters, i.e. he comes out of the house into the open air, is an evidence of the old practice. The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 But, indeed, the strollers did not hesitate to mangle their author when his stage directions did not accord with their convenience. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character A few modifications, of a technical nature, have been made in the stage directions; but even with these slight changes, the directions are staccato, utilitarian in conciseness, rather than literary in the Shaw sense. The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 I'm very glad my stage direction was useful and pleasant to you, and any benefit you have derived from it is overpaid by your style of acting. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections The scripts of these plays consisted, like our ancient "Platts" and the Italian Scenarios, of principally stage directions. A History of Pantomime This is the more curious, as there are numerous stage directions, which prove that in respect of dresses and decorations the resources of the Indian theatre were sufficiently ample. Sakoontala or the Lost Ring An Indian Drama "Alarums and excursions" is with him a very frequent stage direction; and as much may be said of "they fight," or "exeunt fighting." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character E and 2nd Folio print stage direction after Eustace's speech. l. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother C omits this line and the stage direction on the following line. l. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant A handbook for the amateur actor; including George, a one act play with complete stage directions and a running commentary for the director, together with a descriptive glossary of stage terms. © 21Feb36; A92003. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June Such phrases remind us of the story told of a French preacher, whose manuscripts were found to have marginal stage directions: "Here take out your handkerchief;"—"here cry—if possible". Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers The stage direction "alarums and chambers go off" occurs more than once in "King Henry V." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character A—D place the stage direction after opens instead of after opportunity. l. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother C's stage direction reads Enter ye Embassadors. from Seleucus, Lysimachus, & Ptolomey: l. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage directions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread of light. What Is Man? and Other Essays As for landscape, he was content to underline stage directions, as it might be done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Hamlet," Fortinbras says: "Go bid the soldiers shoot," and the stage direction runs: "A dead march. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Also gives stage direction in margin:—Trampling. p. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother The little scene took place close to her chair; and upon this stage direction the little piece of by-play took place, and the young lady coldly touched the captain's hand, and passed on. Wylder's Hand But I am friendly to Mr. Howells's stage directions; more friendly to them than to any one else's, I think. What Is Man? and Other Essays The descriptive stage direction, effectively used by Ibsen, is further expanded by Hauptmann. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Playgoers who can look back a score of years may remember a textual revival of the tragedy, in which this scene was exhibited in exact accordance with the original stage directions. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Shaw's plays we find interlaced with an elaborate network of stage direction that enables us to visualize the movements of the characters even to extreme minutiae. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Where not otherwise mentioned in the stage directions, it is always the winter half of the hut that is referred to as "the hut." Redemption and two other plays I always notice stage directions, because they fret me and keep me trying to get out of their way, just as the automobiles do. What Is Man? and Other Essays The stage directions are significant: for example:—Act I., Scene 1. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Here is an extract from Lewis's "Castle Spectre," including certain stage directions, by no means the least important part of the play. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character In printed texts, it is common to show stage directions as italics inside brackets. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 I have added these names to the stage direction. p. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II On a white framed space in the back wall, stage directions are written moviely. The Harlequinade An Excursion The lines, indeed, are mere stage directions, nothing more. Frenzied Fiction Further, they were able to point to Shakespeare's stage direction: "Enter the ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth's place." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character You don't have the option of italics in plain text, and you shouldn't need to use underscores or /slants/, and certainly not CAPITALS, to indicate italics for stage directions. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 I have added this stage direction which is unmarked in the former editions, but obviously necessary here. p. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II One very curious example of Ibsen's minute care is found in the copiousness of his stage directions. Henrik Ibsen The stage directions of other days had accustomed her to rise, when the character she played had anything serious to say. Blind Love "Here, take this book, and lay it on my desk," says the Stranger; and the stage direction runs: "Francis goes into the lodge with the book." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character It will be immediately clear to a reader that bracketed text consists of stage directions. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 I have added this name to the stage direction. p, 278, l. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II In 1899 Ibsen remarked to me that it was almost useless for actors nowadays to try to perform the comedies of Holberg, because there were no stage directions and the tradition was lost. Henrik Ibsen Further, in the absence of stage directions, every commentator divides the verses among the characters in a way of his own: the opening words of the song, i. Introduction to the Old Testament "I have been dozing over a stupid book," he says; and the stage direction bids him "gape, and throw down the book." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Just make sure that you use the same kind of brackets consistently and only for stage directions—don't use round brackets for stage directions if characters' speeches also contain text in round brackets. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 I have added this stage direction as we have 'Wild, returns'. p. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II This trait comes out in his copious and minute stage directions. Henrik Ibsen The common-sense rule as to stage directions is absolutely plain; be they short, or be they long, they ought always to be impersonal. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship In the course of this play, moreover, musical accompaniments of a descriptive kind were introduced, the stage direction on two occasions informing us that "infernal music plays softly." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character With their stage directions and descriptions, they are as delightful to read as novels. Halleck's New English Literature I have added 'Silvio' to the list of actors as he enters according to the stage directions, Act i, 1, and elsewhere. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II |
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