Playwright's Intentions Flashcards
1
Q
What did Jane Taylor feel about modern times?
A
- in modern times of vast informational overloading
- difficult to always respond as expected
- with outrage, sympathy, or wonder, within a context that inculcates bewilderment and dislocation
2
Q
What did Jane Taylor’s play seek to do?
A
- sought to reproduce the ambiguous nature of response to suffering
3
Q
What is questioned of the audience through this play?
A
- our reactions
- what is it in us that makes us seek out the stories of another’s grief?
- what makes us follow the stories of the torturers?
4
Q
How is the audience implicated?
A
- we laugh at his absurd antics
- this very laughter accuses us