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A 6 page paper looking at Tina Howe's 'Painting Churches'; Wallace Shawn's 'Aunt Dan and Lemon'; Eric Bogasian's 'Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll'; Maria Irene Fornes' 'The Danube;' and Craig Lucas' 'Prelude to a Kiss'. The paper shows how each of these plays display what it is that makes us human by revealing what is important to us. No additional sources cited.
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Drugs, Rock and Roll"; Maria Irene Fornes "The Danube;" and Craig Lucas "Prelude to a Kiss", we look at five different aspects of twentieth-century life and learn the answers to
some of the secrets about ourselves. The theme of Tina Howes "Painting Churches" is the gap between generations, and the tension that the younger generation experiences between their need to
justify themselves to their elders, and their need to be themselves regardless of their parents approval. This is embodied in the relationship between Margaret Church (called Mags) and her parents,
Gardner and Fanny. Margaret is a painter in Manhattan, and successful enough that she is about to have her first one-woman show. She therefore has already proved her mettle
to at least the gallery owners, and is poised on the brink of a promising career. It is at this point in her life that she returns to Boston
to visit her affluent parents, who are in the process of moving out of the home where Margaret has grown up. They are retreating to their cottage at Cape Cod,
a sort of sunset "Golden Pond" image that symbolizes their gracious retreat from active life into their twilight years. Thus, just as Margarets career is taking off, her parents lives
are entering their close. What Margaret wants, clearly, is her parents blessing; she wants the transfer of the scepter from one generation to another to be a loving and amiable
one. Her parents do not seem fully cooperative; to some degree they still want to dictate the terms of her life as they did when she was small, because doing
so makes them feel that they are still in control. The poignancy of this natural but futile act is aided by Gardner and Fannys desperate attempts to hang onto life,
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