DRAM 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Roy Cohn, Magic Realism, Deeper Understanding
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Sets up the dynamic between joe pitt (young guy) and roy cohn (lawyer). Roy appears to be stuck in the last generation, quickly loses confidence as he realizes the new age has changed drastically from when he was in his hay-day. Dream/hallucination sequence the 2 characters that had never met before suddenly meet in the dream world. But their mutual empathy brings them together somehow. Reveals that maybe reality (like roy"s) is not all there is to life maybe another layer entirely. Diff. from boys in the band because it"s more of a focus on internal politics/conflicts, individual problems. Demonstrates how harper"s hallucinations and the homeless woman"s psychosis show different forms of finding inner truth and deeper understanding about personal consciousness. Blurs the lines between what is masculine/feminine, as opposed to previous plays which just switched genders. Angels aims to rethink the concepts of gender norms etc. Reality changed by the supernatural, myth, dream, fantasy, etc.
