Stage Direction

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an instruction to an actor or director, written into the script of a play

Stage Direction

a remark added by an author to the text of a play (usually in parentheses) to explain the setting of the action or the appearance and behavior of the characters, including their exits, entrances, movements about the stage, actions, gestures, and intonations. Stage directions sometimes provide supplementary information about characters, such as age, character traits, or biographical details. In the 20th century, biographical and literary stage directions appear in the works of such playwrights as M. Maeterlinck, G. B. Shaw, E. O’Neill, A. Miller, and V. V. Vishnevskii.

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