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Discover Ludwig"stage direction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a set of instructions at the beginning of a play, book, or script that give information on how the actors should move or act on the stage. For example, "Stage direction: The cast enters from the left side of the stage, singing a cheerful tune."
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stage direction
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An instruction given to an actor that tells the actor what should be done and in what manner to do it.
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"They make love," the stage direction reads.
(Random stage direction: "They piss themselves laughing").
Ransom Wilson will conduct with stage direction by Marc Verzatt.
Then he offered Trump a bit of stage direction.
Damned, rather, be Shakespeare's stage direction that states, "Macbeth slain".
Only an occasional stage direction spoken aloud helps us out.
The playwright's answer lies in a final stage direction: Curtain.
But the stage direction was new for him.
It matched Beckett's stage direction: "A country road.
And Beckett's final stage direction: "They do not move".
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Stage direction/other direction is written in italics.
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