stage-direction

With a title taken from a theatrical stage-direction term for sounds originating offstage, the play appropriately skewers the backstage events and relationships of actors taking part in a fictitious tour of a sex comedy.

What's On Around Europe 2011

But Lady Castlewood could not operate upon the said eyes then and there, like the barbarous monsters in the stage-direction in

The Virginians 2006

“Moroccus,” — a barbarism which I have not retained, because previously, in the stage-direction at the commencement of this act, p. 19, they agree in reading

The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great 2004

This not very intelligible stage-direction means perhaps that, after Bajazeth and Tamburlaine had entered, a short combat was to take place between them.

The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great 2004

I capped off that facet with the production and stage-direction of the American premiere in Wilmington of Carl Orff's Ludus de Nato Infante Mirificus, which is not as far from speculative fiction as you might imagine.

Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

Death slays Herod and his two soldiers suddenly, and the Devil receives them '-- so runs the terse Latin stage-direction.

The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

One of our most subtle artists in stage-direction, Mr. Henry Miller, once confessed to the present writer that he could never decide whether a prospective play was good or bad until he had seen it rehearsed by actors on a stage.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

A novel and interesting device of emphasis in stage-direction was introduced by Mr. Forbes-Robertson in his production of _The Passing of the

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Accordingly the stage-direction at the opening of the play reads thus, 'Here entereth Nichol Newfangle the Vice, laughing, and hath a knave of clubs in his hand which, as soon as he speaketh, he offereth unto one of the men or boys standing by.'

The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

At the suggestion of Newfangle 'he danceth as evil-favoured as may be demised, and in the dancing he falleth down, and when he riseth he must groan', according to the stage-direction.

The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne