Misdirected: Not much room for interpretation

As Tom enters listlessly for his coffee, she turns her back to him and stands rigidly facing the window on the gloomy gray vault of the areaway. In light on her face with its aged but childish feature is cruelly sharp, satirical as a Daumier print. Pg. 1250
Unlike Shakespeare there is no questioning what Mr. Williams wanted the characters to be doing. Or what the sets should be like, the lighting, the fabric of the chairs, etc... He leaves absolutely no room for interpretation because he wanted the characters to perform the play exactly the way he wrote it. The only annoying thing is there seems to be more stage directions than there is actual dialogue. Sure I know where all the sets are placed, but what are the characters trying to express? In plays it's more about the dialogue because you don't really know what characters are thinking unless they speak it. It's rather difficult to get into this play because the story line seems to be severely lacking depth. It really just seems like a play of a typical American family. The play is very realistic, but I can't imagine people wanted to pay money to see a play about stuff they experience every day. I'd much rather watch a play about the exciting elements of life or better yet, things that never happen in real life. Reading a play about a nagging mother is like preaching to the choir. The only thing the play does succeed in is painting a very vivid picture of what's happening. Though I think the play would be half as short is there were no stage directions.