| re: Mrs. Lovett or Sweeney: which is the bigger role? (spoiler) | |
| Posted by: Delvino 01:03 pm EST 03/04/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Mrs. Lovett or Sweeney: which is the bigger role? (spoiler) - Singapore/Fling 12:02 pm EST 03/04/24 | |
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| I fully agree and believe that's decisive. A sidebar point that augments the case: Marsha Norman, in her Juilliard lectures later published by the Dramatists Guild, argues that an audience will lose patience with any protagonist that doesn't take action on his/her own behalf. Arguably, Sweeney fits that bill. The entire plot construct is built upon revenge and the means to that end, a grand motive that dates to the Greeks. Mrs. Lovett, resourceful as she is, remains an accomplice who "only" wants Sweeney. And the revelations throughout are Sweeney's. By the end, he has multiple epiphanies, which drive him further. His heartbreaking, ruminative "Johanna" in the second act, which accompanies the murderous dispatch of a slew of people, pushes him deeper into his own mission. | |
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