Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Love! Valour! Compassion!



     The truth gathered from Love! Valour! Compassion! would be that homosexuality was commonly accepted as a norm, that as long as you have good sex things will be alright. The main thing about this play is that it does not follow a linear timeline but rather skips around. By skipping around the storyline, it gives an impression of one thing when in reality something else is happening. For instance at first we think that the encounter with Ramon and Bobby is coincidental or possibly unplanned. Later we find out that it was planned since the beginning. Despite that, there are no major consequences for cheating for any of the characters  except for possible regret. In the case of Ramon, he is actually rewarded with Greg's last solo, something any dancer at that point would probably kill for. So it turns out good things happens to those who do wrong. But really in the end we all die.
    The play did say something about goals though. It made a statement that said there are some things worth fighting for, like benefits against AIDS. Even if it means doing something ridiculous and silly, there are things worth striving for despite everything that has happened to us and what we've been through.
     The fact that this play is also played on a bare stage gives effect to the theatricality of it. Truth is not so concrete as in other well-made plays. It is something that can be molded or shaped. Truth becomes what the beholder wants it to become on the stage.

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