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"I was meeting with the director who was doing the first play I'd ever had produced. We were meeting in his office, reading the script aloud to one another. After a few pages, I noticed that no one was reading my lengthy stage directions (I'd come to theater from fiction writing, hardly the best training) - and I pointed this out. The director looked at me in shock and said: "Read the stage directions? Oh, I'm sorry. I was under the impression that I was directing the play!" Charles Deemer