Scenes from Four Plays

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The paper explains that Peter Shaffer's play "Amadeus" offers a dramatic representation of a debate that has been waged for some time over the reason for the death of Mozart and the possible involvement of Salieri in that event. The author states Brian Friel's "Dancing At Lughnasa" is a memory play whose narrator, Michael, is reliving the summer of 1936 when he was a boy. The paper reviews two feminist plays by Caryl Churchill: "Top Girls", which shows her belief in a brand of feminism that is allied to socialism and "Cloud 9", which covers a long period of time to show ways in which society has changed and remained the same.

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"Michael, a love child, lives with his Mother and her four sisters in Ballybeg, Ireland. His Aunt Rose is slightly retarded. This particular summer his uncle, the priest Father Jack, returns from his missionary work with lepers in Uganda and rejoins the family. He has been sent home in poor health, most probably because he has "gone native." His spirituality is now as African as it is Catholic, and even the English language is strange to him since he has been speaking Swahili all these years."

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