He was fed up with the well-made play with its stock characters, stock plots and twists, and imitations of imitations that didn't always make great theater. |
It's like a catalog of what you can't do in theater. |
What's fascinating to me is that it's a good play. You can read it on levels of literature, poetry, politics and religion. But when you start to look at it as a play, it's a great play. It does all the things a good play should. It has action, characters with relationships that change, crises. |