Words of the Stage

The playwright Kunio Kishida on the words that are spoken on a stage: what happens to a written line once it passes through an actor, and how the speech of a play differs from the speech of a room.

This is not fiction. It is an essay about language itself, which makes it an odd and slightly pointed thing to find on a site that puts lines in bubbles and reads them aloud. Come to it after a few of the stories and it reads differently.