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Lois McMaster Bujold:
One of the things I love about your books is the voices of the characters, both internal and in dialogue, which are so clear and distinct. I was wondering if you've ever written plays?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I've never written any, but I've seen quite a few. In addition to those seen earlier in my life, for several years after I moved to Minneapolis, a friend and I had season tickets to the Guthrie Theater, where we would take in 6 a year of considerable variety. In addition, I was a member of a (now defunct) play-reading group; we ran through quite a lot of Shakespeare, among other things. (Modern playwrights were more of a problem to do due to variant or unavailable editions.)
Plays (as contrasted with TV and film, in which everyone's brains are steeped) are interesting because the dialogue must carry so much more of the story-telling.
Ta, L.
I've never written any, but I've seen quite a few. In addition to those seen earlier in my life, for several years after I moved to Minneapolis, a friend and I had season tickets to the Guthrie Theater, where we would take in 6 a year of considerable variety. In addition, I was a member of a (now defunct) play-reading group; we ran through quite a lot of Shakespeare, among other things. (Modern playwrights were more of a problem to do due to variant or unavailable editions.)
Plays (as contrasted with TV and film, in which everyone's brains are steeped) are interesting because the dialogue must carry so much more of the story-telling.
Ta, L.
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