What is easily understood by a five-year-old — that language invents worlds — is assumed by producers to be intellectually ungraspable by an audience… - Sarah Ruhl

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What is easily understood by a five-year-old — that language invents worlds — is assumed by producers to be intellectually ungraspable by an audience of well-educated grown-ups, who, it is thought, need to see spigots and so forth to represent kitchens, because holding up a mirror to nature — or the sink — is thought to be transcendent.