I don't think this culture even views capital-T Truth, but rather abandons it altogether. Capital-T Truth is linear and realistic. L!V!C! is quite the opposite. At first glance the play seems naturalistic - set at a lake house over three prominent American holidays, with a bunch of men taking about all the things any good gay 90s man would discuss - musical theatre, Madonna, and AIDS. Pretty straight-forward. However, once that future historian started to delve into the work and started to notice the structure and dramaturgical choices in the play, he would see that this isn't a world where capital-T Truth exists. Capital-T Truth is dead. Characters break the fourth wall by not only addressing the audience, but also interrupting and commenting on what those fourth wall-breaking characters are saying. The plot, if given a 3D form, would look like this or maybe this. It loops back, repeats, or is fabricated by a character. Parts of the story are changed to better fit a character's memory.
What separates L!V!C! from the other well-made plays we've read is that this play is unconventional. It's sporadic. In The Glass of Water and The Children's Hour, things are clearly laid out and obvious. Stage directions are specific, characters almost seem like stock characters out of a commedia dell'arte piece, and by the end of the show, everything is tied up neatly in a nice little well-made play package. Not so with L!V!C!. Stage directions are vague and almost non-existant. One actor plays twin brothers. There's no bow at the end of the play either, instead ending with the line "Anyway."
Lines between reality and and fantasy are blurred. We don't really know if what characters are saying is true or not, nor do we know if anything is even on stage (Is there a lake, where a space like the Reilly could come in handy, or is it an imagined lake, with a portion of the stage doused in blue paint? Are there beds, or is the stage just cleverly lit? Does the house, an image so central and grounding, even belong on stage?) Order and firm conclusions are thrown out the door. Mr./Mrs. Historian would definitely enjoy presenting their findings on L!V!C!, because this play is the exact opposite of a well-made play, and the notion of any capital-T Truth.
I completely agree with you that a capital-T truth does not exist in the play. The play and it's non linear structure is representative of this idea. Events just happen throughout the play and some at the same time. This is representative of the idea that are world is filled with many ideas of what life should be, not one universal understating of what is right and what is wrong as we see in Glass of Water and The Children's Hour.The play challenges many of the ideas we see in Glass of Water and The Children's Hour.
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