How I read plays without my aspergers interfering?

[Isaac]

I got forty or so pages into The Fifth Column by Hemingway (his only full length play), and I got very irritated by how it was formated. I tried the same with Henry The Fifth,
and my autism presented itself again. It happens whenever I tried to read a play, and it's akin to cheap woolen garments in how it feels. Instead, I've tried to watch some
film adaptations of plays, and it doesn't cause me to feel sick and overstimulated. I'd still like to read some plays, as they haven't had any film adaptations or been recorded on tape.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Adderall or Vyvanse

 

[NewRetroVagina23]

What about the formatting bugs you, specifically?

 

[Isaac]

What about the formatting bugs you, specifically?

It doesn't read well, because plays are not meant to be read. Instead of an author describing the scenery to you, it's displayed in brackets. Instead of describing the actions of particular characters, brackets appear and tell the reader that they have drawn their swords or gazed upon a banner. I'd be like reading your cars manual, instead of driving it. If plays were only meant to be read, they'd be considered one of the worst, laziest forms of literature.

 

[murph]

I have a friend who "publishes" playwrights in a sort of contest. The "winners" make it into a book that looks pretty legit and can be listed on a resume or whatnot. He recruits "judges" who are just his friends who read plays and evaluate them. I did this judge role a few times because I like the guy and respect the grift.

Most plays are utter shit, even the ones that actually make it into production. Most "playwrights" are insufferable cunts.

Any play you've seen that you liked is statistically impossible to have made it to the stage.

 

[MrTroll]

Only autists read (or write) plays so there's literally no solution to your problem.

 

[seri0us]

You're not supposed to read plays in the first place, you're supposed to watch them.

 

[BelUwUga]

It doesn't read well, because plays are not meant to be read. Instead of an author describing the scenery to you, it's displayed in brackets. Instead of describing the actions of particular characters, brackets appear and tell the reader that they have drawn their swords or gazed upon a banner. I'd be like reading your cars manual, instead of driving it. If plays were only meant to be read, they'd be considered one of the worst, laziest forms of literature.

Okay so not to brag but supposedly I English real good. Like you said, a play is not meant to be read. It's clunky to learn at first but you can literally just use different voices to read different character's lines out loud. So each character has a voice. Anything in italics is like a narrator/director, just try to imagine Morgan Freeman reading it in a calming voice. It's taxing but it is what got me through all of my English credits.* The Importance of Being Earnest is actually a good play and PDFs are available. There isn't a huge cast, it's fairly short, and it's actually hilarious. I would consider it to plays what "Of Mice and Men" is to literature.

* Did you know that at universities when they have courses like American literature I/II it isn't like prerequisites where you must do I before II? The I/II refers to eras and I cuts off at 1776. I sure did not know that. Do you know what a fuck ton of the reading is? Old court documents, which are like plays that get the dementor's kiss. The only redemption is reading about the amount of prostitution, adultery, sodomy, and buggery in early America.