![]() Given the Father’s persistent philosophizing, it is reasonable to think this also extends to the way people can never control the consequences of their actions in general. ![]() This is not proof that actors do not do justice to a work, but rather that a work is not bound to the wishes and desires of its author-just as the Characters, to their dismay, find their story neither told nor interpreted the way they want it to be. The Manager’s comment about the author-who is considered, in the time and place of this play, to be always a “he”-points to the interpretive work of the stage, which never simply reflects a written “story” but always modifies and translates it to a particular performance context. ![]()
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