Everytime I see one of my photography students with the lens hood on backwards, I know they don't know what the lens hood does. The lens hood is designed to reduce flare and protect the lens, among other things. The lens hood is a piece of plastic that clips onto the front of a camera lens and extends beyond it.
Audiences are even reluctant to sit through  The Iceman Cometh a classic by Eugene O'Neill. It runs close to 3 hours.You should keep your full length script to about 100 pages which equals 1.6 hours of stage time. For a one act divide that by 2. For a ten minute play your script should be from 10-15 pages.. Dialogue: Now here's the, sometimes, hard part: everything you want the audience to know, about the story and the characters, is conveyed in the dialogue. Unlike a short story or a novel, where you can write as much description as you'd like, a play script has none of that.
A script is a written version of a play or movie. If you're auditioning for a movie, you'll get the script to practice a scene or two. Script comes from the Latin scrÄ«bÄre, meaning to write, and all its meanings have to do with something written. Your handwriting is your script. The written version of what you're supposed to say, whether for a wedding toast or a play, is a script.