Dialogue is not just about what characters say – it’s about what they express by what they say. Dramatic and comic dialogue is not conversation – it is there for a reason, it is honed and shaped and, ...

Ralph Hamann's work with the Southern Africa Food Lab has benefited from funding from the African Climate and Development Institute, the University of Cape Town, and the National Research Foundation.

Dramatic and comic dialogue is not conversation – it is there for a reason, it is honed and shaped and, from the writer’s point of view, purposeful. But dialogue is not logical – characters, like ...