Question

walks its length, halts, looks up.) and one window—too high up to see out. (in the moment she stands there, she is in that cell; she is all the people who are in those cells. emil johnson who works at the courthouse, appears from outside.) madeline: (stepping out of the cell door, and around it) hello, emil. emil: how are you, madeline? how do, mr morton. (ira barely nods and does not turn... emil turns back to madeline) well, im just from the courthouse. looks like you and i might take a ride together, madeline. you come before the commissioner at four. a possible disadvantage to watching this scene, as opposed to reading it silently, is that viewers are required to conceptualize the setting of the jailhouse. required to interpret movements in absence of stage directions required to imagine the appearance of the characters. required to visualize the props used within the scene.

Explanation:

When reading silently, stage directions can be pondered over. In watching, movements must be quickly interpreted without time - consuming analysis as in reading. The text has stage directions like "stepping out of the cell door, and around it". Viewers may struggle to interpret movements without lingering on these directions as readers can.

Answer:

required to interpret movements in absence of stage directions