Significance of the Spelling?
Significance of the Spelling?
#0Significance of the Spelling?
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:17pm
Is there any significance to the spelling of Eric Bogosian's masterful play: SubUrbia?
I've always wondered...
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#1re: Significance of the Spelling?
Posted: 10/1/06 at 2:11pm
Well, yes. It take the word "suburbia" usually meaning a subset of a large city, and transforms it into a sort of play on words. It uses the prefix "sub" not to mean a location outside the city, but in a sense that it means "below". Below Urbia. Urbia meaning the city. The characters in the play are, well, lazy slobs- below the rest. I hope I made some sense. 
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Updated On: 10/1/06 at 02:11 PM
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