Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:55:17 GMT, Amy Guskin wrote:
>> Drama, I can understand, because it's often a volunteer position anyway -- 
>> not really a "teacher," more likely just the director
for the school plays -- 

> OTOH, they hopefully have scripts / plays / whatever it is they use for
> the actors and director, don't they? Or do they just copy the lines they
> SEE on TV? So they should know the concept of actors reciting lines. Or
> are those plays completely ad-libbed?

Well, in practice, they might be. If you want decent performances from 
90% of people, you're more likely to get it by having them ad-lib to a 
scenario. Almost anyone can play "let's pretend", while learning to 
speak written lines and make them your own is a craft requiring a 
trained memory, a love of language, and a lot of hard work.

But it still seems like dumbth bordering on the subhuman not to know 
that professionals generally do it the second way.

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