Sentence examples for stage instructions from inspiring English sources

He wrote his plays for the stage, quickly but with precise stage instructions.

A breakthrough came with the discovery of a folder of lyrics, scripts and stage instructions in 1998.

Orton's stage instructions put Kay in her late 20s; other than that Mackichan, 46, is a good fit.

Here, as in other Mussmann pieces, the performers also speak stage instructions and comment on them, jolting the audience briefly and a little coyly back into the present.

How, I wondered, was Nunn coping with Stoppard's stage instructions for 'smash cuts' - changes of lighting and scene which have to be instantaneous rather than faded?

I also introduced a piece on breakfast TV, where the stage instructions appeared by mistake on screen, including "councillor Joe Bloggs, far right".

There's a love scene in the play and the stage instruction says: "He rides her like a dolphin".

At the junior secondary stage, instruction was provided according to a common curriculum that consisted of religion and other subjects.

As Toril Moi points out, the stage instruction that her hair should come down indicates that she is seen as a sexual object by Rank and Helmer, the two watching men.

It consists of a single line of melody applied to the text, without indications of secondary voices, instrumentation or even rhythm but with sketchy staging instructions.

To open the play up, or maybe dust it off, Ms. Lemmons has jettisoned much of the original's inner workings, including its comic shepherds, heavy sermonizing and Hughes's staging instructions.