Stage directions, dramatic space and audience knowledge

What this note covers

1. Read stage directions as part of the script’s meaning
2. Map space through access, distance and visibility
3. Follow entrances, exits and the pressure of absence
4. Analyse light, sound and props as changing systems
5. Distinguish audience knowledge from character knowledge
6. Develop a staging interpretation from evidence
7. Space workshop: a library hatch and an unexplained delivery
8. Knowledge workshop: a visible scarf and a delayed discovery

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