u/TheRealSJK

I've been reading Playwriting by Stephen Jeffreys, which contained (among lots of other excellent information) the following:

>Caryl Churchill introduced the standard typography for interrupted dialogue in plays. She uses a ‘/’ – the ‘Churchill slash’ – to indicate when a line of dialogue should be interrupted by the next line.

On the one hand, it sound very useful as a tool for writing dialogue. On the other, I've never seen a Churchill slash in any of the plays I've read (which, yes, is a smaller number than I'd like it to be). I'm not self-taught per se but there's still a lot I need to learn about standard conventions in the playwriting world. Can I expect people to understand what it means, or would they sooner assume that the "/" is a typo?

I'm writing a play in which a major character breaks her hand. Specifically, her hand gets crushed when she throws a punch at an android, who catches her hand and squeezes. The android is strong (it's stated in an earlier scene that ~20% of the android's grip strength results in a painfully firm handshake) but can pull its punches if necessary, and I want the end result to be "multiple broken bones but she'll recover with the right OT, even if she'll never be at 100%" rather than "everything below the wrist is slurry".

My questions:

1. What would the injury look like on the X-ray? Would "crushed by someone's strong grip" be the default assumption? If not, what would a doctor who isn't aware that super-strong androids exist assume was the cause of the injury?
2. Assuming a best-case scenario, how long would her recovery take? Most of the resources I've found only covered single hand/finger bones so I'm unsure about the timeline for a more severe injury.