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The Conversation About the Keys: Original Plays - Part I: Tim Without Thalia; Part II: Thalia With Someone Else

Abstract

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"First Love teaches you how to love. Great Love perfects that love. Last Love...well, we never really figured out what Last Love did." "Tim Without Thalia" and "Thalia With Someone Else" sprung from a place of being tired, but not yet sleepy. The "quarter-life crisis" if you will: When everyone else seems to be getting married, having kids, starting their own basket-weaving businesses, except you. When relationships between college friends break and relationships between "real life" friends…break. When love is dictated as much by actual romance, as it is by power. Yet you still feel oddly euphoric about it all. In these two companion plays, Tim, Thalia, and their clueless but well-meaning friends wax idiotic on the rules of modern romance: the chase, the connection, and, of course, the end. Produced April 30 – May 2, 2009 in Virginia Tech's Performing Arts Building under the direction of Dr. Patricia Raun, Theatre Arts Department Head.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing
Department dc:contributor.department
English
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2009

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Shen, Yu-Li Alice
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Falco, Edward C.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Roy, Lucinda H.
  • D'Aguiar, Frederick M.

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-04272009-152637
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42298

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citation

Shen, Yu-Li Alice. The Conversation About the Keys: Original Plays - Part I: Tim Without Thalia; Part II: Thalia With Someone Else. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42298