Words As Bare Bones

I was telling a friend, the other day, that the script of a play is like a skeleton - and the flesh is put on by the cast, director, and crew.

She asked how a play of mine would be performed ideally, and I opined in turn that I didn't envision a specific ideal, that these other artists were required to make the play real.

She was surprised, but I argued that a play script is much less fully-specifying than an orchestral script. I think that's partly because actors are much less standardized than cellos!

Every creative actor
is an individual factor
in getting a script
fully equipped.