Theatrical Adaptation

Lovers:the blog

Comedy is our way of coping with what is tragic. Laughter is the natural recourse of the body to bring itself back to equilibrium after viewing that is wrong with society or fate. In reference to the play "Lovers", the whole of both is set in a semi flashback setting. IN the first act the lovers are a pair of border school students studying for there exams, but we find out as the play goes on that they died right after this scene of their life. As morbid as it is we still laugh, the man and woman explain that the couple died, explain the funeral in detail and yet still we laugh. We are drawn to the humor in the situation presented even at the expense of the overall so mberness of the actual events. however in some way its a happy ending, in so much that they die in love.
In the second act, the whole flashback is much more intense due to the fact that we already know that they are the losers. At least in winners there was some hope for a real happy ending. In losers we know bad things are going to happen, the narrator tells us the bad things that are going to happen. And they happen. And yet it's still funny, in a way it's funnier because it's so tragic that a person's whole love life can be killed by simple stupid mistake. Hence the term LOSER. To have true love and lose it in an instant, which incidentally is funny, is sad. Yet the whole thing is funny.
so there.

posted by IPDB @ 10:10 AM