ABSTRACT
The difference between a play and the other kinds of text we read is simple: a play text is mostly just the dialogue, and the performance fills in the rest.
If we cannot see a performance, it is up to us, the readers, to fill in the gaps for ourselves. We have to imagine: who the characters are, where they are (the setting), how they speak and move in relation to each other (tone, proxemics), how they do what they do-and so on.
