What the characters say

I am trying to understand "The Straight Line", the new play I am directing. This is the world premiere, so I don't have any other interpretations or body of performances to go on. So I am using all sorts of tools to see what they tell me.

As an exercise, I took the text of the play, removed the characters' names, and passed it through Wordle. The result is this visualization of the text:


The prominence of the word "know" was a surprise, that's for sure.

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