Laughing and Choking Looked the Same
In his introductory note on Marvin’s Room, playwright Scott McPherson distinguishes between death and dying: as a child, his father wrapped his car around a telephone pole—this was death. Also as a child, his grandmother gave way to her cancer as he watched Ed Sullivan on the television at the foot of her bed—that was dying. Marvin’s Room, then, is a play not about death but about dying. Continue reading “Laughing and Choking Looked the Same”
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