discussion-FriSep9

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 * 1) Looking back to Huizinga, **why do we call a play a "play"?** Is Anna Deavere Smith's //Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992// a play? And is she a playwright? A journalist? Something else? Be sure to quote particular examples in your answer.
 * 1) //Twilight// is an example of **non-narrative drama**. It does not tell a story in the traditional sense: a central protagonist working toward a well-defined goal against the obstructions of an antagonist, or a framework defined by an initial situation and disturbance, action rising to a climax, and the revelation of a changed situation. Or does it? Would you say it does, and if so, what kind of story? And if you would say that it doesn't tell a story, is it simply a collection of interchangeable monologues by unrelated characters, or does it develop according to some other non-narrative principle?