All the world's a page the joy of scripts during theatre's shutdown
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As venues close due to Covid-19, there’s a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘undirectable’ collage
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There’s a play by Douglas Maxwell called If Destroyed True. His publisher, Oberon, must have been in a tolerant mood because the script is all over the place. Literally. Three-quarters of the way down the otherwise empty first page he repeats the phrase “ta toom” three times. The third one is so close to the edge it’s missing the final letter.
He scatters the type over the next two pages and, even when we reach recognisable dialogue, Maxwell arranges chunks of text in narrow columns, makes interjections in capital letters and inserts strange typographical patterns. Continue reading...
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