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re: Stage directions
Posted by: AlanScott 01:26 am EST 12/20/15
In reply to: Stage directions - KingSpeed 09:25 pm EST 12/19/15
If you see, say, a Samuel French script that is full of very specific staging notes, including SR and SL indications and so on, then that is a script that almost surely is taken at least in part from the stage manager's script.

But many published scripts have stage directions that are really the authors'. Some of them incorporate certain specific things from an original production's staging, but judiciously edited.

The published script of Fiddler does not include the kind of detailed stage directions that you see in certain acting-edition scripts — more so in ones from the past, I think, than in the present. But even in the past, certain authors did not allow those kinds of stage directions in the acting editions of their plays.

Looking through some old acting editions I have, it can be really tough to know which stage directions were in the script that the author wrote before the production went into rehearsal, which come right from the stage manager's script, and which ones the playwright added later to the script for publication, based on things that were done in the original production. Sometimes it's quite obvious, but a lot of the time it's not. At least not to me.
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