http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/ Poetics in Live Performance Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:53:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1474 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:46:52 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1474 [...] wonder the USA is in a deep and irrevocable moral abyss.  Children can’t trust their parents.  Parents are less moral than their offspring.  We [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1346 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:25:44 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1346 [...] has the father in him taken over the misogynist adolescent that plagued his political ambitions like Oedipus was haunted by a sexual curse he did not want, or desire, but [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1237 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:16:02 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1237 [...] on instinct.  Playwrights are trained to craft repercussions in the most terrible way using the Doctrine of Irrevocable Change: Every play must end obeying The Doctrine of Irrevocable Change — and that means things can never [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1147 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:51:00 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1147 [...] always prefer the imperfect lie to the beauty of the plain truth of a straight line because we crave conflict and we are coded for drama and [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1047 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:42:33 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-1047 [...] unjustified in the context of the virtue of the show. Sure, killing Joe is an easy means to an irrevocable, Twilight Zone ending, but it was unfaithful to the emotional merits of the entire [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-949 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:34:07 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-949 [...] death in your eyes and wondering every instant of every day if you will live or die with real, irrevocable consequences; and while I do not measure up to Howard as a man or as a warrior, I can still take his lessons [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-930 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:10:39 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-930 [...] by a goodhearted and neighborly rectifier, and what was therefore lost, is intrinsically, and irretrievably, much more valuable than what was spent in the forced, but failed, [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-742 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:02:49 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-742 [...] you have no honor in presenting the horribleness of the underlying meaning?  If there’s no Irrevocable Change, then there’s no reason to pursue such a wrongful [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-722 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:28 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-722 [...] most fascinating irrevocable change in the first episode was The Self-Righteous Bible Thumping Carpenter — who moved from New [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-367 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:02:53 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-doctrine-of-irrevocable-change/#comment-367 That is the classic example of conflict and tension and irrevocable change. So few modern dramas can even come near matching its perfection. Aristotle called it, “The Perfect Play.”

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