The two main couples in this play Louis and Prior and Joe and Harper make the play seem very soap opera like. Identical to many T.V. shows the play starts with an opening scene very loosely related to the rest of the play. The purpose of his was to familiarize the theme of death in the story.
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It is a "short and sweet" murder mystery play with a comic twist. I thoroughly enjoyed this play, but the diction of the play is sufficient enough that a pictorial view is not only unnecessary but would be destructive to the audience's experience. Much to my dismay, after research I found that there is actually a short 27-minute short drama of Trifles directed by Pamela Walker back in 2009. This was well rated, but I feel like to make this play work into the different mediums the original story had to have a great deal of content added and it loses its true form. A film, in this case, moves too far from the text and focuses too much on impressive visuals than the story.
A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, like Angels in America, incorporates varying degrees of reality in which representation becomes reality. Both of these plays took different issues in society at the time and display them so the audience thinks about it from a different viewpoint. A Doll House focuses on the oppression of women and Angels in America focuses on the oppression of the homosexual