HOW A PLAY IS PRODUCED
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The dress rehearsal, or as it is called in Czech the “general rehearsal,” is in short a general review of everything that is still missing at the last moment.
The dramatist sits down in a stall and waits for something to happen. First of all nothing does happen. The stage is empty; then the players assemble slowly, yawn, and disappear into their dressing-rooms with such remarks
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