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Seeing plays vs watching movies

In a recent “Writer’s Diary,” Matthew Gasda observes that “there’s something about theater, the physicalness of it,” that feels like an “antidote” to the disembodied forms of scapegoating that flourish on the internet. “More of the whole body/self gets invested in evaluating the fictional characters of a stage drama,” he writes: “if it’s decent; it’s no…