We’re all familiar with what a dramatic reading is. It’s a lot like dramatic speaking (which we’re also familiar with), only the words come from a book or a poem or another form of literature.
More emphasis and movement and inflections and hand gestures and eye brows up or down.
But the idea of ‘dramatic hearing’ is something that’s easy to get a little too good at without realizing it…taking a few words or sentences someone says and extrapolating an entire narrative about the intent of the speaker, the near and distant consequences, what it will mean for me, what does this say about them, and how does that effect my connection with them.
Lay down the dramatic hearing and simply listen.
