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Peter Latham wrote:
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>My question then is, where is the boundary between an evil hero and a
>comedic protagonist?
Interesting question...
While working on my M.A. I seriously considered asking a similar question
for my thesis. During my first reading of _Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?_ (I was only 16 or so) I laughed regularly at the "black humor" of
the conversations between the characters. I very much took the play to be
a black comedy...but after seeing the completely dark and depressing film
version that we all know so well, I wondered how such a slight change of
interpretation could twist the viewers perception of the same piece so very
much.
I saw a college stage version of WAVW which was directed to be upbeat,
witty, and energetic... the audience laughed all the way through. I can't
say I laugh at Taylor and Burton...
Adam.
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