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stage direction

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stage direction
Noun
an instruction to an actor, written into the script of a play
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Noun1.stage directionstage direction - an instruction written as part of the script of a play
instruction, direction - a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"
drama, dramatic play, play - a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"


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"Here Herod rages on the pageant and in the street also" is one stage direction.
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Skidder's door as he was red-inking a stage direction for Myrtle Delorme (Miss Leeson) in his (unaccepted) comedy, to "pirouette across stage from L to the side of the Count.
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