Word: breezewood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down the barriers between the two. The patrons of the Proposition Theater temporarily become the viewers of a daytime drama called The Wanton Wind, whose renewal or cancellation depends on their whim. The Wanton Wind has obvious parallels with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; it is set, for example, in Breezewood (instead of Fernwood), and its young Don Juan, Brent Owen, resembles Sgt. Dennis Foley. But The Wanton Wind is pure parody in a way Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is not--highly stylized, it comes complete with musical flourishes, tensely meaningful looks and lines like "Don't fight...
...Where finally, Soap asks, does life end, and art--given that soap opera is art--begin? Soap seems intent on demonstrating how blurred the separation between the two can become. At one point, one of the actors asks the audience to set the scene for the meeting of a Breezewood character and one of the members of the company--as though such a meeting were in fact possible. And in the show's final soliloquy, the eradication of the line between art and life is given psychological--as well as sociological--significance as Nancy Ross, the bitchy aging actress, wonders...
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