Abstract
My husband and I are walking out of Northwestern University’s Theatre and Interpretation center on a bitterly cold Saturday night in February 2011. We have just watched Free Theatre Belarus’ production of Being Harold Pinter. I have not uttered a word. My silence unsettles my husband. ‘Did you enjoy it?’ he asks, trying to start a conversation. I reply, ‘It affected me, it made me think. No, I didn’t enjoy it. How could anyone enjoy that?’
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© 2013 Dani Snyder-Young
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Snyder-Young, D. (2013). Catharsis, Critical Distance, and Change. In: Theatre of Good Intentions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137293039_5
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