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(Inexplicably he hops twice like a bunny rabbit and mines stabbing someone.)

#stage directions #enda walsh #ballyturk

(The room's trying to fix itself but failing.)

#enda walsh #arlington #stage directions

(Deafening music. A half-dozen brutes with plastic garden chairs come out, put down their chairs sit, looking straight out— and then, after a whille, they stand and do a violent kicking dance and then a woman walks among the brutes, yelling about something, but the deafening music drowns her out and then a soliloquy while all the brutes look straight out. And, while that is going on, we see a dozen random youtube videos [on five screens that descend from the flies to different heights] of cats falling from shelves kids pulling chairs out from under their grandmothers jackass movies the baby that falls down again and again on purpose and cries while, at the same time, people drink vodka out of a bottle and spit it out drink and spit drink and spit while a guy cooks scrambled eggs— and 4 people eat plates of eggs— spit them out, and throw the remainder on the floor as a woman cries hysterically for ten minutes, curled in a fetal ball. and an amazingly tall man, with some bizarre Butoh-like inability to walk normally, comes in naked and caked with charcoal and blood and goes awkwardly to the ground and rolls in the dust. a large screen on the back wall has projected on it a golden harp in flames, and, as the harp burns, we hear the strings popping— which provides the "music" for the charcoal man a gold chalice is brought out and set down on stage, and left there, gorgeously lit?)

#stage directions #chuck mee #jesus

(Note: Everyone in this play should be able to tell a really good joke.)

#sarah ruhl #the clean house #stage directions

(She does. Make Up Lady applies more make up.)

#stage directions #cape disappointment #The Debate Society

(Vague gesture for something repulsive.)

#stage directions #what once we felt #Ann Marie Healy

(Quick cut to the Pedophile driving through the night. Bloody gauze eye patch. He's listening to the baseball game. The lights flicker like a ghost or a film. Or a ghost film.)

#stage directions #cape disappointment #The Debate Society

(The Potatoes enter, disguised as a doctor and carrying a medical chart.)

#stage directions #potatoes of august #Sibyl Kempson

(Actor A continues amplified cooking.)

#stage directions #famous actors #object collection

(the innocent bystander's called nancy)

#stage directions #this from cloudland #kristen kosmas

(The tamale vendor exits.)

#stage directions #the method gun #rude mechanicals

(Mavis gets electrocuted. Music starts playing.)

#stage directions #cape disappointment #The Debate Society

(the office assistant is a terrific thief with a geeky office supply fetish)

#stage directions #this from cloudland #kristen kosmas

(Astrid grabs at an air dream with her hands and then sets it free, sadly.)

CC: memories-and-dust

#stage directions #what once we felt #Ann Marie Healy

(Repeat DDR step [section B]. Only instead of slap slap uhh! it's slap slap POSE!)

#stage directions #dance dance revolution #les freres corbusier

(If they are in a forest, it's a real forest, one quite firmly based in a sylvan kitchen-like reality. And the atmosphere is somehow medieval, including their mode of dress.)

#stage directions #potatoes of august #Sibyl Kempson

(The kissing is rhythmically based on the following instructions from a high school acting text book:)

#stage directions #the method gun #rude mechanicals #kissing practice

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