Why is reading the text of a play unable to match the full experience of a performance on stage? Illustrate your answer from one non-Shakespearian play you have studied.

“There is a strong smell of liniment”; “Tupper blows a whistle”. Reading the text of Greg McGee’s Foreskin’s Lament does not compare nor have the same effect as the stage performance. The atmosphere, lighting, male nudity and crude language being shouted about the stage had a memorable effect. The addressing of the audience and the actual delivery of the language used can not be shown in words alone. There is no doubt that the written play does not give the full effect or the complete experience.

The play was written to be preformed. The opening had a dramatic and instant involvement for the audience although reading the text of the play did not make it such a big moment at all. A lot of the content in the play is action and visual imagery. A reader would not be as shocked and surprised, as someone in the audience when the play started and the curtains went up to reveal male nudity on the st...