| Abstract | Abstract Abstract: This essay focuses on two plays by Donn Short, The Winter Garden, first performed in Vancouver in 1993, and Full Frontal Diva, given its first full production in London, UK in 2004. The plays are analyzed as memory plays, as defined by Attilio Favorini, “in which the phenomenon of memory is a distinct and central idea of the drama’s attention […].” The specific interest of the essay, however, is to show how dramatic character is created through the suggestion of memory.
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