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Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
In a way yes, I do 3-4 films a year, and I have dialogues and punches that somewhere become similar, but in a stage play, everything is different.
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.