Comments on: Acting Makes the Playwright Grow Stronger http://blogs.bu.edu/ilanamb/2011/06/09/acting-makes-the-playwright-grow-stronger/ visit the new version of this blog: http://dramalit.wordpress.com Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:41:01 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: jgf http://blogs.bu.edu/ilanamb/2011/06/09/acting-makes-the-playwright-grow-stronger/comment-page-1/#comment-39 jgf Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:42:37 +0000 http://blogs.bu.edu/ilanamb/?p=788#comment-39 just my two cents, but i think any extra knowledge of the workings of the stage can only help the playwright, but that's just me...if you've had to make a twenty second costume change then run back on stage, worked backstage and had to help actors make those changes, you'd never write something like that into a script... still, i have said if the devil wanted to make a deal with me at the crossroad at midnight, i'd first try to change the time to a more reasonable ten in the morning, then i'd trade all my acting abilities to be a really good guitar player... just my two cents, but i think any extra knowledge of the workings of the stage can only help the playwright, but that’s just me…if you’ve had to make a twenty second costume change then run back on stage, worked backstage and had to help actors make those changes, you’d never write something like that into a script…

still, i have said if the devil wanted to make a deal with me at the crossroad at midnight, i’d first try to change the time to a more reasonable ten in the morning, then i’d trade all my acting abilities to be a really good guitar player…

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