“Move a log. Go nuts.”

At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3 of The Love of Three Oranges, the stage directions read:

Strike the cauldron. It’s a different part of the forest. Change the lights if you want. Move a log. Go nuts.

This is, of course, the least professional stage direction ever written.

See, when I originally wrote Three Oranges, I was directing it and I knew, personally, every single person who would read the script. This was my attempt to make the tech crew, who were often unsure of what to make us creativ...