Atdtda23: [45.2] The other one, 647

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut sez: 
 
> much of the dialogue in AtD  ... So often post, riposte or  
> variation of......like much drama  (or should that be melodrama?) 
 
Yes, I think so: it's hard to find any dialogue that's *just* naturalistic
chat, *just* a slice of life, because his thematic work is so dense and
constant.
 
Most two-hour plays have the word count of only a medium-length story; maybe
-- to the extent our expectations are shaped by more expansive novels --
part of what we mean by "dramatic" is that more tends to be going on per
moment of dialogue on stage than on the page?
 
(I can feel this overlapping with that big old "are P's characters realistic
and three-dimensional?" can of worms) 
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