Many people find it very difficult to acknowledge their own coming death and that fact of universal mortality is often glossed over or transformed into something more acceptable by religious beliefs and other practices, or by ignoring it altogether. I think this is obviously true but it also extends to the manner in which people find ways of avoiding looking directly at their whole existential state.
I have tackled this subject in my play ‘Interrogations’. This drama is set in a middle class family. The older man begins to see things ‘differently’ from his family. At first it is thought this indicates signs of early onset dementia and doctors and psychiatrists are involved. But this is not the case and he develops his thoughts and ideas through a series of ‘interrogations’ with himself and others. At the same time his wife begins to see the destructive nature of these ‘revelations’. This all leads to a dramatic ending – perhaps melodramatic. This play has been influenced by my reading of all the extant Greek tragedies so the ending may be forgiven.
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