3/18 "You ought to be walking up and down the pavement outside in the classical state of agitation. But you appear to be enjoying the play, as if you never had seen it before." "And I haven't," Hillyard returned. "This isn't quite the play which we have been learning and rehearsing during the last month. Here's the audience at work, adding a point there, discovering an interpretation--yes, actually an interpretation--there, bringing into importance one scene, slipping over the next which we thought more important--altering it, in fact. Of course," and he returned to his earlier metaphor, "I know the big fences over which we may come a cropper. |