XXXY: A Mystery Play Notes
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Title
XXXY: A Mystery Play Notes
Description
Notes on XXXY, the play that is the basis for Ann-Marie MacDonald's later novel Fayne. The notes on this page include:
- X is me - blue faceless, will find the light and turn green (blue + yellow = green)
- Alec and Alex and Sandy - archetypes although they are the most realistic
- Which is the root and which is the crown?
- Which is the picture and which is the negative?
- X will communicate via dream - emblematic, fragmented, abstract, version of each Alec
- Alex and Alec will communicate through people and things symbolically, ritualistically
- X is common to all of them + therefore, capable of inducing their synchronistic + inevitable coming together to give birth to the whole self.
- This is a four person show - X is the core
- A tidal wave - a BIRTH of self, pieces of the self
- X is me - blue faceless, will find the light and turn green (blue + yellow = green)
- Alec and Alex and Sandy - archetypes although they are the most realistic
- Which is the root and which is the crown?
- Which is the picture and which is the negative?
- X will communicate via dream - emblematic, fragmented, abstract, version of each Alec
- Alex and Alec will communicate through people and things symbolically, ritualistically
- X is common to all of them + therefore, capable of inducing their synchronistic + inevitable coming together to give birth to the whole self.
- This is a four person show - X is the core
- A tidal wave - a BIRTH of self, pieces of the self
Creator
Ann-Marie MacDonald