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An 8 page essay that discusses Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential and Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore share a common feature. In each instance, the playwright uses comedy in order to make some serious observations about human nature and the way in which people relate to one another. Characterizations, dialogue, plot structure and props, every element of stage craft is combined in these plays in ways that are quite funny, as well as tragic, which results in their respective audiences being forced to ponder the absurd nature of aspects of contemporary society. Examination of these plays demonstrates the manner I which these gifted playwrights create these similarities in these two very different plays. No additional sources cited.
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to make some serious observations about human nature and the way in which people relate to one another. Characterizations, dialogue, plot structure and props, every element of stage craft is
combined in these plays in ways that are quite funny, as well as tragic, which results in their respective audiences being forced to ponder the absurd nature of aspects of
contemporary society. Examination of these plays demonstrates the manner I which these gifted playwrights create these similarities in these two very different plays. Ayckbourn offers a romance between Adam
Trainsmith, a likeable young man who wants to break into show business, and Jacie Triplethree, or more accurately, JC-F31-triple 3, which is the model number allocated to Jacie when she
was manufactured (Ayckbourn 20). Jacie is an android, or more specifically an "actoid," a robot manufactured for the specific purpose of acting in television shows. As the play progresses, Ayckbourn
shows how Jacie matures beyond her initial programming. She has been incorporated so many scripts, provided with so much input on human emotion, that she essentially wakes up and begins
to develop her own identity. This characterization provide Ayckbourn with a satirical palette that conjures questions about what makes any of us unique and what constitutes being human. A
great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something of a play on words. It
begins in a TV studio, in which a standard daytime TV soap opera is being filmed. A young man lies in the hospital bed, and is obviously in pain. His
concerned mother hovers over him and the doctor is pontificating about his condition when he says, "Im going to remove the temporary pluster cust and umputate just above the
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