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Genre/Form: | Plays Drama Bookseller's labels (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McNally, Terrence. And things that go bump in the night. [New York] Dramatists Play Service [©1966] (OCoLC)680570593 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Terrence McNally |
OCLC Number: | 291924 |
Notes: | A play. |
Description: | 94 pages : illustration ; 20 cm. |
Responsibility: | by Terrence McNally. |
Abstract:
The play is about fear and negation. Ruby is its hero, Sigfrid and Grandpa its conscience, Clarence and Lakme its victims. It is also a play about choice: the choice of evil, which is a constant, over chaos, which is not necessarily a good. It is a tragedy of intelligence. Ruby perceives too clearly many truths but does not see the basic one: We cannot destroy everything without destroying ourselves. Her error is her negation of all links with mankind. Her way of life must end as it does, in a colossal suicide. Her Message to the World has come true. For herself, for Sigfrid, for all of them. But she does not flinch before the steady trend of her approaching fate. She will not grovel. She cannot beg. She meets it head-on and defiant, like a female Prometheus.
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