Wallace Shawn on reading plays: 'the written play has its own music' by Wallace Shawn

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…

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