[@TwelveOf8]As far as ASOUE goes: The actors seem wooden because the dialogue is modeled/ripped from the books, and the three of them are VERY wooden in the books. In text it comes across as intelligent and more sophisticated, with the primary thing being the lack of contractions, but in terms of dialogue it comes across as rather stilted, but as you said, it really fits the over-the-top nature of the whole thing.