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stage direction

NOUN
  1. an instruction written as part of the script of a play

How To Use stage direction In A Sentence

  • The vast majority of this movie is told in near pantomime: gestures, facial expressions, and stage direction.
  • He's observed the turbulent history of the humble stage direction and has decided to take action.
  • As for enlisting the resourceful Wilma production for being "more evocative of the real-life Housman's seething emotions than the text itself," Mr. Mendelsohn unluckily picks an evocation which is prescribed in the stage directions. 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
  • The effect is not unlike that of the script of a play with stage directions.
  • Critics and audiences alike paid more attention to the set than to the stage direction. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • Shakespeare's stage directions call for 'hautboys', the English form of the French hautbois, meaning literally 'high wood'.
  • The Folio text reprints the play from a copy of the quarto supplemented, here and there, by the consultation of a promptbook, from which certain stage directions have been added or elaborated.
  • The stage direction reads, 'Exit left'.
  • My only cavil is that Rachel Blues's design has none of the ‘dinginess ‘specified in the stage directions.’
  • The uncertainty of this utterance is indicated strongly in Stoppard's stage directions.
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