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| - Read description. Wait; oh, sorry. The script, as anyone who has taken a middle school drama class knows, is loaded with stage directions. This is because acting, rather than simply being the monotonous reading of lines, is loaded with on-stage cues which the actor must follow in order to progress the scene. When a character clearly uneducated on these finer points of the stage tries to read a script (or just doesn't like it), well, he starts, Wiki Word, Reading The Stage Directions Out Loud. New paragraph. Examples of Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud include:
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| - Read description. Wait; oh, sorry. The script, as anyone who has taken a middle school drama class knows, is loaded with stage directions. This is because acting, rather than simply being the monotonous reading of lines, is loaded with on-stage cues which the actor must follow in order to progress the scene. When a character clearly uneducated on these finer points of the stage tries to read a script (or just doesn't like it), well, he starts, Wiki Word, Reading The Stage Directions Out Loud. New paragraph. Can be justified in some cases by nervousness, although like most comedy tropes, the real important qualifier here is the, wik-oh, Rule of Funny. No matter how ludicrous the directions in question may sound, a character that doesn't know any better will read all of them. New--oh. See Repeat After Me, Saying Sound Effects Out Loud and some examples of wi- Hello, Insert Name Here for tropes which use the same basic principle of humor open parenthesi- oh, wait. (saying stuff that clearly, the character is not supposed to be saying, close). A staple of Bad Bad Acting, end of description, insert line, open list of examples. Oh, cobblers. Examples of Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud include:
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