Journal of Dramatic Idea And Criticism
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A memory play is a play wherein a lead character narrates the events of the play, that are drawn from the character’s Memory Wave. The term was coined by playwright Tennessee Williams, describing his work The Glass Menagerie. In a widening of the definition, it has been argued that Harold Pinter’s plays Outdated Occasions, No Man’s Land and Betrayal are memory plays, the place “memory turns into a weapon”. Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa is a late 20th-century example of the genre. The scene is memory and is due to this fact non-practical. Memory takes plenty of poetic license. It omits some particulars