<div id="ygrps-yiv-2087136102">Sherrie writes:<font id="ygrps-yiv-2087136102role_document" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><div>Which is precisely why I haven't bought it. I've been an actor for
almost 40 years, a stage manager, and a director, and I ALWAYS find stage
directions annoying, even in a play I'm working on. Reading one?
They drive me nuts - I'm always tempted to get out little figures & try to
work the blocking!</div>
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</p><div dir="ltr">Personally, I wish it had been written like a story rather than
play. I find stage directions and such distracting from the story–but it is
what it is. </div>
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<div>It does lose much of what I love about JKR's writing, the fabulous
descriptions and the side relationships. I'm not sure why she said it had to
be told as a play, except she didn't want to do all that work! lol. <br><div><p><br></p><span></span><span>Kare wrote:</span><span><blockquote type="cite"><span> </span>Answering my own question by providing a starting place...that is
spoiler <br><div><p>free. How are folks feeling bout reading the story as a
play in general?<br>Kare<br><br></p></div></blockquote><br></span><hr style="WIDTH:99%;COLOR:#909090;MIN-HEIGHT:1px;BACKGROUND-COLOR:#b0b0b0;"><table style="BORDER-COLLAPSE:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px;PADDING-LEFT:8px;PADDING-RIGHT:15px;"><br></td><td><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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