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Downstate (play)
''Downstate'' is a 2018 tragicomedy play by Bruce Norris about a group house for sex offenders. It premiered at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and has received acclaim from critics and criticism from conservatives who have accused it of promoting pedophilia. Characters * Fred, a genial former piano teacher who raped two of his students * Andy, one of Fred's former students, now a well-off adult * Em, Andy's assertive wife * Dee, a charismatic former performer who had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy * Ivy, the offenders' probation officer * Felix, a shy Hispanic man who molested his preteen daughter * Gio, a smarmy 30-something who committed statutory rape * Effie, Gio's girlfriend Synopsis Four men who have been convicted of sex offenses and completed their prison sentences but remain on the sex offender registry live in a group home in downstate Illinois in the present. One, Fred, is confronted by his former student Andy and the latter's wife, Em when they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragedy, tragic and comedy, comic forms. Most often seen in drama, dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of both the tragedy and the comedy in the audience, the former being a genre based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis and the latter being a genre intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter. In theatre Classical precedent There is no concise formal definition of tragicomedy from the classical antiquity, classical age. It appears that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had something like the Renaissance meaning of the term (that is, a serious action with a happy ending) in mind when, in ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'', he discusses tragedy with a dual ending. In this respect, a number of An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |