THEA 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meat Industry, Shoe Polish
1) Precipitating Event
a) Happens in a climactic play
a.i) Usually takes place in a shortened period of time (not in epic plays)
b) Something that happens before the play starts that puts everything in motion
c) The Lieutenant of Inishmore
c.i) QUIZ
(c.i.1) Precipitating Event was the killing of a black cat by Christy
(c.i.2) Mairead kills Padraic because he killed her cat
(c.i.3) Mairead shot cows because she wanted to get back at the
meat industry
(c.i.4) Mairead and Padraic had a lot in common. They both want
to free ireland, have a thing for shooting eyes
(c.i.5) Mairead has short hair and Davey has long hair
(c.i.6) Donny and Davey try to trick Padraic into thinking an
orange cat painted with black shoe polish
(c.i.6.a) Davey thinks he can wake up at an exact time like
a ninja
(c.i.7) Joey doesn't like violence to cats
c.ii) Skank Toby’s dog died when Padraic fed his nose to the dog and it
choked on it
c.iii) Satire on the romance of fighting for a cause
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Document Summary
Precipitating event, happens in a climactic play a. i) Usually takes place in a shortened period of time (not in epic plays: something that happens before the play starts that puts everything in motion, the lieutenant of inishmore c. i) Precipitating event was the killing of a black cat by christy. Mairead kills padraic because he killed her cat. Mairead shot cows because she wanted to get back at the meat industry (c. i. 4) Mairead and padraic had a lot in common. They both want to free ireland, have a thing for shooting eyes (c. i. 5) (c. i. 6) Mairead has short hair and davey has long hair. Donny and davey try to trick padraic into thinking an orange cat painted with black shoe polish (c. i. 6. a) Davey thinks he can wake up at an exact time like (c. i. 7) a ninja. Joey doesn"t like violence to cats c. ii) c. iii) Skank toby s dog died when padraic fed his nose to the dog and it choked on it.