Stage Directions

Alrighty. I'm excited about this Spring's Play and Dinner Theatre. (Not that it has anything to do with this post.) Now, since my poem has been mis-titled, I will now write something about stage directions to make sure that I actually have stage directions in this post. Firstly, the stage directions are from the point of view of the actor, facing the audience. Therefore, stage left would be to his left (audience's right) and stage right to his right. Up would be behind him (because the stage's used to be on a tilt so that the action in the back could be seen) and down would be in frnot of them.

Now, on to the poem.

[CENTER]Stage Directions

Act 1
Scene 1
[Curtain rises]
SPOTLIGHT UP: On a speaker, center stage.
Silence.
...(elipses)
[Drawn out] DOT DOT DOT
[/End silence]
RAWR!
[Rawr slowly fades away until finally...]
Silence.
[Spotlight fades, curtains falls.]
[/End of Scene]
[/End of Act]
[/End of Play]
(Now you clap).[/CENTER]



Yes, that was a poem. I did turn it into my teacher. At first, it was going to be extra credit, but then she decided she liked it so much I didn't have to write another poem. What happened was, I didn't want to write poems. And so I asked Artem what I should write one about. And he said about being quiet (because I never shut up.) And so I asked G if I could write a poem like this:



Silence




(Silence would be the title.) But she said no. And so, I was like "Fine, I'll write out my silence." And got the following poem:

Silence
... (ellipses)
Dot Dot Dot

And she said I had to write more than that. But she liked the style, and so I could include that as a 6th poem and get extra credit. So I worked on it some more and got my final result (credit: end line goes to Cody) and she said that I didn't have to write another one and she'd take that one because it was good. But then Cody and G told me to show it to Hanson, our choir/drama teacher. And he thought it was brilliant and is now going to be using it in his drama lesson about...Crap, I forgot. Well, that's it.