Are stage directions in drama part of the plot or they are related to the style?
Most playwrights include very few, if any, stage directions in their script. There are some really necessary directions like:-he shoots, she falls- for example, that have to be in. The first production of a play often uses simple photocopies of the writer’s script. If the play is successful and a company like Samuel French Inc publishes it, the editor will often take the stage directions worked out and noted down during rehearsal and place them in the script, so that people reading it can get a better picture of what went on. However, the next production may do totally different things, so their movements won’t match at all. In amateur theatre it’s sometimes difficult to convince new actors to ignore the directions in the script. They keep saying things like “Yeah, but it says here…”.
