Point of View

This play does not have a narrator, which means there is no first-person or third-person point of view as there would be in prose. Nevertheless, there is still a clear point of focus, a character whose perspectives and experiences are at the center of the play and its narrative. That character is the play’s protagonist, Gareth O’Donnell, referred to in the text and throughout this analysis as Gar.

The key point to note about how the play portrays Gar is that his perspectives and experiences, his point of view, are enacted in two different ways. Specifically, his character is split into Private and Public aspects of identity, both of which are embodied by actors at the same time. Public is the side of Gar that the other characters interact with, while Private is a representation, or externalization, of Gar’s inner life, i...