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The Art of the New-Play Reading: Legitimacy and the New-Play Showcase

Usually, when a new play is read to the public, actors are handed scripts on the spot; they sit down and read from them. Afterwards, members of the audience express their opinions, and everyone goes home. What is the point? Where is the artistry? Although public readings of new plays are perhaps the most significant means of disseminating and supporting new work, they are seldom seen as what they are: public performances of aesthetic texts and as important opportunities for generating a diversity of playwright voices. By under-valuing the moment of reading itself, we also under-value the plays that are read.