Date of Award

5-3-2002

Document Type

Research Paper

Department

Whittier Scholars Program

First Advisor

dAve pAddy

Abstract

The play you are about to see, The Elves, is a daring attempt to straddle the gap between two widely divergent disciplines I've studied at Whittier College: economics and theatre arts. In the interest of full disclosure I should point out that two courses I failed at one time or another were History of Economic Thought and Acting III. So I take full responsibility for any boring scenes or gross misinterpretations of monetarist theory. In no way should any of that reflect negatively on the elves. The Elves is also a short play, which makes sense if you think about it...because it's based on my sex life. As a kind of artistic framework, I started writing the play by loosely dramatizing some of the events in Chile during the 1970s under the authoritarian rule of Augusto Pinochet. Perhaps because that period was so chaotic, my writing followed suit and The Elves took a life of its own. So I scrapped the whole "social commentary" thing and wrote whatever the little elves told me to write. Nevertheless, there are still a few themes in the play that might be interesting to those who read between the lines- even if the actual lines themselves are sorely disappointing.

Comments

WSP major: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives

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