Meaning of play doctor | Babel Free

Definitions

A professional who is called in to revise a play written by someone else.

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“If Shakespeare lived to-day he would have waited four years to have his first comedy read and accepted—after which it would have been re-written by the stage carpenter and the leading lady and put on with interpolated songs and a costume chorus with a play doctor in the rear of the theater keeping track of the laughs with a hand comptometer.”

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