6How this might have worked for Angeline in The Zoo Story
Note: This chapter is shared in Angeline’s first-person voice.
Some years ago, I appeared in a production of Edward Albee’s play, The Zoo Story (1993), performing the role of Jerry. I found this show and part to be particularly challenging, and looking back I was not completely satisfied with the outcome. Given that difficulty, I decided the experience would be a good one to draw on for retrospectively applying this structural metaphor technique and exploring how it might have provided deeper and more profound insight into character traits and motivation.
The Zoo Story is a one-act absurdist play that is quite simple in form. The plot centers around two ...
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