Here the materials of note are narrative, spoken words and images moving and still, as well as experience filtered through the framework of psychology and anthropology.
In a mannered staging by Timothy Douglas, against an unsightly set, the playwright's message is iterated and reiterated, then restated, retold and rerun, all too often in overlapping overwritten narrative spoken directly to the audience in stylized, self-conscious prose while both playwright and director play with cross-cutting time.
On the other hand, Abu-Ghazaleh (1983) analyses verbs mostly as Theme in narrative spoken Arabic, while Abu-Mansour (1986) analyses them as either Theme or Rheme, depending on their degrees of Communicative Dynamism (CD).
It concludes with a narrative, spoken in Russian, by a KGB interrogator (Ed Wiesnieski).
The sublime balance of beauty and terror, fear and obsession, past and present, sex and politics, humor and critique, line and color, surface and narrative speak to his appetite for emotional truth and extreme honesty in all things.
Parallax exhibits both modern and postmodern qualities; its interest in deconstructing traditional ideas of narrative speaks to postmodernism, while its synthesis of multiple understandings pushes toward meaning and truth in the modernist vein.
At stake here isn't — or shouldn't be — the question of authenticity, which is a red herring: nationalities, ethnicities, genders and even species do not "own" the right to fictional narratives spoken in what purport to be their voices.
These narratives speak less to the specific challenges of having a sociopath for a child or a spouse than to the pathology of the unstated assumptions that we all pass along and receive.
The narratives spoke to the dedication that re-entry CHWs have to improve their lives as professionals, and in turn, the lives of others.
