¶ … Shape of Things:
Theatrical Convention from Class: Suspension of Disbelief -- the audience is made to believe that a man or any person for that matter could become so obsessed with a single person that they are willing to completely change themselves, including having plastic surgery and destroying their interpersonal relationships for a person whose only appeal to them is a sexual one.
Potential Convention: Given the subject matter of the play and the heightened emotions the ending portrays at least on the part of one character that I would try to have the actors deliver their dialogue and their attitudes as realistically as possible.
In the Blood:
Theatrical Convention from Class: Pathos -- the audience is meant to feel sympathy for the main character of this play and to understand her sense of desperation and her inability to find a way to preserve herself and her sense of dignity and also support her children.
Potential Convention: Due to the highly tense nature of the play, it might benefit best by containing the setting as much as possible to a single setting, such as directly inside our outside the home of the impoverished family.
Wit:
Theatrical Convention from Class: The play relies heavily on singular perspective of the dying woman, namely the soliloquy and her direct discussion of her situation with the audience.
Potential Convention: Because of the isolated nature of the character and her disease, the theme of the play would be helped by having her physically isolated on the stage, such as by creating a large space between the main character and everyone else, including her doctors.
The Goat:
Theatrical Convention from Class: Satire -- the play deals with a man's relationships with a goat but this taboo could be any sexual feeling which the...
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