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re: creepy narrators

Posted by:	Guillaume 04:21 pm EST 01/18/15
In reply to:	re: "Diner" last night - Lroay 02:56 pm EST 01/18/15

I'm trying to think of shows wherein the use of a narrator was effective and more important, necessary. Whenever the curtain goes up and I see a narrator I immediately get a sinking feeling that the writers were unable to find a compelling reason and fresh way to tell their story and we're going to have an evening of the same old same old. On the other hand, I thought the narrator in Stoppard's Travesties worked extremely well, as an example of a show that needs the narrator in order to tick.

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