A play is a lot like a movie - ish. But there are crucial differences. A movie pretends to be a recording of something that actually happened. In a play we accept the framing and gaps and unrealities of the production, because it's only a play. A movie is supposed to perfectly realistic.
A movie can be replayed over and over, exactly the same, hundreds of times. But a play is fleeting. Like life itself, it happens once; and no repetition is exact. Plays are intimate, human, private almost. You had to be there.
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