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The tiny box that fed actors their lines

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Memorizing lines was apparently treated as entirely highly optional. Theaters heavily relied on physically hiding a frustrated employee inside a tiny wooden box right at the front of the stage strictly to aggressively whisper completely forgotten dialogue to wildly unprepared, heavily confused lead actors.

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