Jose Rivera wrote the very short, two-man play, "Tape." A
young man who read everything he could about Shakespeare, Ibsen and Moliere, Rivera
presents an unusual drama that might spring from The Twilight Zone
episodes that he loved to watch as a child.
The plot
structure of this play is very simple. There is a room with two men: one is called the
"person," who is very agitated; the other is called the "attendant." The dialogue is
vague to start. It is difficult to find a context that will shed some light upon the
plot developing before the audience. Because of this simplistic structure, the conflict,
when it is finally introduced, speedily drives the plot toward the
resolution.
It is fair to say that Aristotle would have
defined this play as a tragedy:
...an imitation of an action that is serious,
complete, and of a certain
magnitude...
The play
is serious, and it imitates an imaginary action of enormous
magnitude...but the audience is unprepared for it. The context now becomes clear: the
play is based on a modern perception of hell. The person is dead, and the attendant is
there to assist him in his punishment: there are ten thousand boxes of tapes; he must
listen to each one.
Listening, word by word, to every lie you ever
told while you were
alive.
Additional
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Rivera_(playwright)
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