Directions: Pick what disturbs you most about this play and ask yourselves why the playwright chooses to dramatize these things? What is she asking the audience to think about? Confront? If you are more disturbed by the men nursing, or the asparagus “sex”, or lesbianism, than you are by climate collapse or the cruelty of “The Dome” ask yourself why? Or: What are the characters trying to accomplish? Which leads to: What is the worldview of the play (and the playwright)? Or: How is the playwright changing our notion of “heroism” from the fighter/killer to the birther/nurturer? What is heroic about giving birth and nurture? Length: 5-10 pages, double spaced, times new Roman, size 12
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