My favorite playwrights and writers are people who are able to create dialogue that sounds like this.
The internal logic – yet circuitous at the same time, the implied relationship between the two, the miscommunication – it’s all THERE, effortlessly. We don’t need to know ANY MORE. Those few words tell the whole story. Cheryl comes to life. Etc. etc.
It kind of reminds me of that old post I wrote about the dialogue I overheard in the bar last year – two guys talking about “smotheration”. It was genius dialogue – and it was from real life.
Let me find the post. It was a good one.
Playwrights who have an ear for dialogue like that have my heart forever. They’re very rare.
