Compare Hamlet To Gurney's The Dining Room

From full scale Broadway to local community theatre, University main stage to studio, Aristotelian elements of theatre and their priority almost certainly hold true. First and foremost plot can make or break a production. Theatre is the art of dramatic action, without a strong plot to build the action upon, all that is left is a beauty contest without the 15-second response limit. Compare Hamlet to Gurney’s The Dining Room. Hamlet, one of best-written works in human history, has a powerful and involved plot structure, The dining room, which can generously be called a one act festival with a unified set and theme, is a series of vignettes that describe the decline of WASP culture. By definition a vignette prioritizes theme and message over