In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. (Tom Stoppard)

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Tom Stoppard

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