In Jeffery Hatcher’s play, Three Viewings, I noticed actually quite a few common points
between all three of the monologues, but the one that I though was most
interesting was that they all had a connection and went to the Green Mill. I thought it was really clever of Hatcher to
each of these characters go to this same luncheonette making it possibly for
them to either all be there at the same time or happen to run into each other
without them even knowing that they actual have connections through other
people. As for resonance or commonality
between the three monologues I noticed that each of the characters seemed to
mourn their dead only a little bit and that was never their actual focus. The deaths are what brought on their dilemmas
and issues but they all seemed to be more concerned with the new issues they ha
to deal with, rather than the fact that someone they cared about just
died. They did not seem to have issues
with moving on with their lives.
That last part was something that I never thought of at all. I don't really remember any instance of characters mourning their loss in this play centered around FUNERALS! If I were to explain this play to someone, it would probably sound like it was a play ruminating on the death of a loved one, as told by three different people. But that's not what's going on at all...
ReplyDeleteYvette, nice post! I totally missed the point of reference at the Green Mill while reading the play. It is an interesting location to explore because you wonder if the three of the characters every ran into each other. While reading the play, I noticed that they each mentioned the same characters. For example, Emil was working on Ed Carpolotti, who is Virginia's husband in the last monologue! So it would be interesting to explore whether they ran into each other at the Green Mill or not.
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