Point of View

The play unfolds from various narrative perspectives, with each individual scene / story told by different narrators. Each narrator tells their story from a fairly neutral perspective. Even narrators who are identified by some form of identity (i.e. the Second Laundress who tells the Midas story), the storytelling is still essentially neutral. The Second Laundress, in that instance, has no real agenda or intention tied to her identity; her intention is that of the other narrators, to simply share the story they have to tell and the moral or lesson embodied by the events of that story.

The play’s thematic point of view is related to those morals or lessons. While it manifests in different ways with different characters and situations, each individual scene (or mini-play, or story) develops a teaching (i.e. a moral or lesson) on an aspect of love. There is...