On the other hand, one of the real pleasures of watching a big production musical like The Lion King , is to see how director Julie Taymor has brilliantly used imaginative staging and rather simple materials to suggest the scope and majesty of Africa and all its creatures despite the space limits of a stage. However, the economic constraints of today's theatre being what they are, there is pressure on playwrights to write plays that require only a single setting in order to save on production costs. This is possible because the content of plays is essentially verbal while that of films essentially visual. It is tempting to add Text Limitations to our list. The convention of theatre is that only dialogue may be used.
Narrative description is to be kept to a bare minimum.
The screen is much more accomodating of narration to accompany its primarily pictorial content. You should be reading Chapter 13 in your textbook to get more information about dramatic structure. By now you should know the routine.