How to Produce Amateur Plays, by Barrett H. Clark, Part 1

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Let’s relax and sleep with advice on staging a play, including roles behind the curtain, choosing actors, and blocking the action, courtesy of a scene from Oscar Wilde. The drama!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Patreon:</span> <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Buy Me a Coffee:</span> <a href= "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style= "mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Read “How to Produce Amateur Plays” at Project Gutenberg:</span> <span style= "mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39973">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39973</a></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Music: "earth 2 earth,” by PC III, licensed under CC BY</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style= "font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome inso