Wallace Shawn on reading plays: 'the written play has its own music'
The actor, playwright and Princess Bride star is also an essayist. Here, he explains why reading dialogue away from its performance has a magic of its own On the one hand, there's something rather strange about the idea of reading plays. You could certainly say that what a play is, really, is what actors do together in front of an audience"or a one-person play is what one actor does alone in front of an audience. Whe…