/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22227409]

Is there any point to watching a play instead of reading it?

[Anonymous No.22227413]

>>22227409
do both, retard

[Anonymous No.22227758]

yes
the production of a play involves a lot more than the script. there are decisions to make about staging, props, costumes, casting, directing, etc., therefore making productions a phenomenon in-and-of-itself. you may get a new sense of the meaning of the play because there are more things to sense.

[Anonymous No.22227765]

>>22227409
Most actors fucking suck, and they’re annoying fags

[Anonymous No.22228041]

>>22227409
retard, both do

[Anonymous No.22228057]

Murrican plays are shit.

[Anonymous No.22228063]

>>22228057
>>22222222

[Anonymous No.22228068]

>>22227409
Plays are meant to be recited aloud. You miss a lot from Shakespeare if you internalise the dialogue.
In fact, reading Shakespeare aloud was a popular social activity up until the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.22228084]

>>22227409

A man is a boy perfected, a father is a man perfected. A play, and here I must go on to designate it as a script for a play to deny giving the written text alone anything more than parochial importance, is the perfection of all its elements. An actor is perfected when he is able to inhabit a great role, the role is perfected when a great actor is able to bring it to life; every line of the script can be lovingly extended to its ultimate purpose in the fulfillment of a great production, and to not witness it is to deny yourself the totality of what you claim to have read.

[Anonymous No.22228236]

>>22227409
you can't read a play, you can only read its script. to do that and only that, you trample over the will of whoever it was that originally wrote it. their original vision is not fully contained within these pages, rather it only becomes fully realised on stage.

[Anonymous No.22228240]

>>22228057
Fuck off third world scum

Anyways, I read this in high school

[Anonymous No.22228269]

>>22228240
he's right though. go back to eating your big mac with fries.

[Anonymous No.22228733]

>>22228269
how original

[Anonymous No.22228744]

>>22227409
I read an excerpt of this in cram school
I remember it was the first time I felt compelled to investigate and read about the books we were told about

[Anonymous No.22228771]

>>22227409
>Play about "the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer"
>Lookup the author's early life section on wikipedia
>