: Re: How to present asides in play writing? I'm not sure whether this is the stackexchange website for this, but I'm in the process of writing a play for a competition. The main character often

@Carla500

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Convention is a little unclear on this, as they are not terribly common in modern theatre. That said, I've seen two methods used: Either it is a stage direction like you've used it, or -- and this is what I see when a writer is particularly fond of using them often and the constant direction would get repetitive, or the character slides between diegetic and non-diegetic vocalisations mid-stream -- is to make any asides cursive.

Source: MA in Playwrighting

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