The Designated Mourner

The Designated Mourner is a play written by Wallace Shawn in 1996, which was adapted into a film directed by David Hare in 1997.

There is no visible action in the play or the film the three characters describe their memories in separate fragments of monologue as in Samuel Becketts Play, with brief scenes of dialogue between them.Though the play is generally more realistic than Shawns previous politically charged work The Fever, it focuses on the characters emotional lives and leaves the civil war in the background. As a result, many reviewers of the play and film have been unclear as to whether the assassinated characters were killed by the government, for sympathizing with the rebels, or as Jack fears by the rebels, for being privileged academics. A close reading of the play suggests that the rebels if they even exist have not gained power and that what has occurred is a purge by one faction of the regime. ........

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