Ask the Doctor, He Might Know! (MFA Thesis)

Introduction

For this thesis, I endeavored to create a prose-based performance-play about the cyclical nature of life and death, a project I never expected to start, let alone finish. The curiosity in writing about life stems from my previous poetry about love, where I focused on the connections between people and emotions. Where some love lives and some dies, people do too. This transitioned into thoughts of birth and death, contemplating an existence where no one cared about either. I then created him, a sad existence that began without love and ended without care. The project morphed into an exploration into ten lives, split into six parts, each covering the most important moments of a life. These people, and their deaths, were created first, and then their birth and life were included to provide the context in which to care, or not care, about their death.