Point of View

The play is told from an external point of view in which no one character’s point of view is privileged: the effect of this is that the audience does not discover the inner workings of any of the characters’ minds and is left to judge them by their words and actions alone. This is a reflection of the nature of life itself in that whatever we think we know about another person, we are only ever really judging the way that person chooses to present themselves externally, and not the way that person really thinks and feels on the inside. In this sense, the play itself represents an opportunity for the audience to attend a ghost supper: an evening in which the true motivations, passions, and deep mysteries of other people’s souls are left unexplored and unresolved.

Characters in the play only ever...