So even though I was really excited to talk about Rocky Road to Dublin, I ended up thinking a lot about it and not really stating what I wanted to say very well... I touched on some important things, but I think I could write a lot more about it, though I might need to watch it again. I ended up feeling more comfortable with my reading of Terminus, the play we saw, though I feel as though there's still critically much more to discover.
I talked about the tipping point, the edge of the knife sort of feel that Terminus has to it. In a way, it like much drama, has this Greek aspect to it, of choices having direct consequences, though it didn't, except for the girl/demon story really have an establishment of fate or the gods being the main source of control. But it did what I like drama to do most of all, like the end rhyme of a good Bob Dylan lyric, the moments of truth were unexpected until the moment they happened, and then we all felt "of course, of course." Examples of this would be the daughter's soul going into the Helen's baby, the baby that made the mother think so intensely of her daughter for a moment or two... the play, like the soul, knows all already. It gives us the raw material, and through it's narrative leads us around, even though we've already known the ending all along.
More Later... I'll probably write a paper on at least one of these.
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