What shimmers with life on the page may die within minutes in the theater precisely because prose is a language to be spoken to an individual, recreated in an individual reader’s consciousness, usually in solitude, while dramatic dialogue is a special language spoken by living actors to one another, a collective audience overhearing
O: While theater may be one of a few places that can simply "display" the character without direction or added context. descriptions, or remarks, written prose that can seem rather complex and alive also exist, if the character is demonstrated through actions, background or incentives, internal thinking or self-muses, which brings out a more vivid character, whose actions are realistically dependent on previous influences, instead of being a "character sheet" character or Mary Sue, or of that who follows a classical trope. The character is not created as a plot driven device, and acts with intention, but also unconscious decisions, much like what happens in real life, which illustrates and adds "noise" that creates more complex and compelling characters, continuous instead of something discrete, free from defined tropes, vast and liberating. This type of fiction is often called literary fiction.