In early to mid-20th century plays, characters speak in complete sentences and develop thought through complex clauses. It's complete idea. |
It's moved out there. It is not communication from stage to audience in that (traditional) way. |
This is the hardest language I've ever had to approach. I'm not sure I can articulate why — it just is. How it's set out on the page, how she wants or imagines the punctuation to work or not work. Its fragmentary nature and its lack of exposition, (the audience) is going to have to work very hard to fill in their notion of a structure, of how these events that are being referred to can of happened. Did they happen? What do they mean? |