Read description. Wait; oh, sorry. The script, as anyone who has taken a middle school drama class knows, is loaded with stage directions. This is because acting, rather than simply being the monotonous reading of lines, is loaded with on-stage cues which the actor must follow in order to progress the scene. When a character clearly uneducated on these finer points of the stage tries to read a script (or just doesn't like it), well, he starts, Wiki Word, Reading The Stage Directions Out Loud. New paragraph. Examples of Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud include: