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Buried Child by Sam Shepard

Well I would definitely say that this play has some similarities to a play like Trifles.  Everything that happens in the play is definitely plausible and nothing that happens is impossible, it’s just odd things that wouldn’t normally happen in life, but that doesn’t mean that it is impossible to occur in everyday life.  And like life, the play isn’t always very black and white.  There is a lot of ambiguity; the whole play runs on it and on secrecy.  An element that runs counter to the kind of presentational conventions of illusionistic realism would be the fact that just about everyone on the family seems very much off their rocker, almost if they all seem like they have some kind of amnesia or a mental illness, which can run in families but it is very uncommon to happen upon a situation like this in normal life, which is contrary to the normal conventions because it is not quite a normal incidence or a “slice of life.”  Another element that was a little off was the fact that the priest didn’t really react appropriately to what the heck was going n in the house, he was just kind of chill about the shenanigans and was very passive saying he didn’t know his place, normally I would think that someone who was coming over for tea and walks in to that would have some more extreme reaction, but he didn’t which was a little non-realistic.  Another thing that was very off from realism is the random presence of the vegetables throughout the play, particularly when Tilden placed the corn all over Dodge’s body, I mean WHAT?! that is not necessarily something that is realistic and especially since Dodge wasn’t woke  up by that or when his hair was being cut rather violently considering that he was bleeding from the head.  

Frayn's Noises Off

A motif that occurs in Frayn’s Noises Off is that all the drama that occurs backstage is centered around relationships between the females and the men in the cast, by this I mean a lot of the random crazy stuff that happens backstage is caused by the characters taking criticism on there acting to heart or in some other way and creating tension and ridiculous circumstance between each other.  For example, when Lloyd scolds Brooke in a semi polite yet very urgent manner that she needs to just say the 2^nd to last line of act 1 so they can take a tea break, she runs off crying and feels personally victimized and this is because Brooke and Lloyd are having a fling so naturally they are more sensitive towards each other, which goes for some of the other couples who have paired off and affect each other in some in some other ridiculous and comical way.  I would say that a great tag line for this play would be something like “Don’t worry, it’s only the technical.”  This drives the action and hype throughout the majority of the play.  By this I mean, the reason the play goes so south the entire time is that these actors are so nonchalant about everything and the director is constantly freaking out and it’s not even the technical but the actors sort of refuse to accept that they are about to open and that is what causes all the havoc because they are so unprepared and they seem to have the mentality that they have plenty of time and that the show will just fall in to place, like most shows do and the director is just not having it, yet he has to be sensitive to his overly sensitive and non committed actors so that they will at least get on stage.  

The Glass of Water by Scribe

I believe that in The Glass of Water, Bolingbroke is the protagonist.  It is his struggles that are most central to the plot and Scribe sort of gives him the power of knowing everyone’s business and from there he is given the power to be able to manipulate each other character into either quarreling with the other or into having them befriend each other and through a bunch of twists and turns, Bolingbroke not only gets what he wants, but also he ends up being able to get those he cares about what they want as well, more or less.  He is the starter of everything that occurs and he is the one who really moves the plot along.  Scribe even explicitly tells us this by having a few allusions to the “battle” he and the duchess are having and then at the end saying that it is he who won the “battle.”   Bolingbroke is also the only character who doesn’t really have something personal that appeals to his emotions on the line so Scribe wrote his character in a way that set him apart form the other characters and set him in a whole different dynamic.  Bolingbroke is also the only character who has another character directly opposing him, the duchess, but the unlike Bolingbroke the duchess doesn’t always know what is going on with all the other characters like Bolingbroke does.  She is left in the dark.  I would also say that it is the havoc that Bolingbroke creates that receives the most stage time and it’s within other character’s encounters that Bolingbroke set up that he either triumphs or fails depending if events are unfolding as he had planned.