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re: I guess I don't find an engaging one act play to be a lazy play

Posted by:	mikem 07:15 am EDT 03/13/14
In reply to:	I guess I don't find an engaging one act play to be a lazy play - dramedy 01:21 am EDT 03/13/14

dramedy, you're saying that Buyer and Cellar is one of the exceptions, not an example of lazy writing, right? I'm not sure I'm parsing your sentence correctly.

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Posted by:	dramedy 10:13 am EDT 03/13/14
In reply to:	re: I guess I don't find an engaging one act play to be a lazy play - mikem 07:15 am EDT 03/13/14

I don't see how you could write b$c without breaking the wall. Probably a better example is the glass menagerie, which t.williams frames as a memory play to break the wall. I wonder if that was one of the first times done. The play could have been written without the prologue and occasionally statements to the audience, but it works in that play.

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