[Grammar] Deviate From Script

[bhaisahab]

No, the former is better.

 

[Matthew Wai]

speaking from the prepared text.

Is it ungrammatical?

 

[bhaisahab]

No. This is clumsy and unnatural: "Try not to deviate too much from speaking from the prepared text."

 

[Matthew Wai]

speaking from the prepared text

May I take 'from' to mean 'according to'?

I would prefer "reading the prepared text."

I think an actor in a movie 'speaks' instead of 'reads' the prepared text, but I am not a teacher.

 

[tedmc]

The act of reading is done by holding the script.
An actor cannot be reading the script/text while acting. It is more likely that he recites the script from memory.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think radio actors and movie actors read the text and speak the text respectively in a play, but I am not a teacher.