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  DUNCAN MACMILLAN (LUNGS) Overview: Mother and Son, an unbroken conversation about love and acceptance. Character sheet: MOTHER Woman SON Nurtured WIFE Unseen onstage, only via phone call Chronological Topics:   beginning from the start of real conflict and agency in the son, and ending with the loss of agency in the mother. 1. Possible sibling 2. Puberty (childish) 3. Consolation after beaten by Father figure 4. Career advice 5. Girlfriend 6. Marriage 7. Mother in Law conflict (wanting kids? Responsibilities?) 8. Fallout 1 (with wife, live with mother) Fallout 2 (with mother, phone call wife) 9. Reconciliation 10. Spending more time (mother childish) 11. Son talking to mother at the grave OR 1. Possible sibling! 2. Son’s Puberty (childish) 3. Consoling him after beaten by Father figure 4. Giving Career advice 5. Disapproving Girlfriend 6. Son’s Marriage 7. Daughter in law conflict (wanting kids? Responsibilities?) 8. Fallout (with son, p...

The play will be performed with mime as the only supplement to dialogue and actions in all scenes. When we dream we return to the mountain Evaporating up into the clouds into something less than consciousness, then reborn to pure droplets in fresh water. (Will talking to a group of people offstage) Will: I am glad that the mandate has passed, of course. You all know and follow the holy laws. But sister, we will pray for strength and courage for your ministerial board. (Will notices Isaac standing in a corner.) Peace, and may we be free in divinely ordained authority. (waves them off) Be blessed, brothers and sisters. Enjoy lunch! Will: (shakes hand) Hello brother, how have you been? Isaac: Blessed. (They hug for a long time.) Will: have you been alright? How’s work at the site going? We’ve missed you in the fellowship for some time now. Isaac: It’s—It has been busy. But I see that it is good, that the fellowships help a lot. Will: I am honoured to serve with you in spirit and in truth,...

Lakoff’s ICM focuses on how each person’s perception and understanding of the world is rigid in function, meaning that two individuals with different worldviews will factor in the same concept differently, without the possibility of empathising with the other perspective. As the logic of reasoning and understanding information is primarily tied to emotion, Lakoff is right to say that    

  EVENTUALLY, I HAD TO COME OUT TO MY PARENTS   (as gay and not trying to be straight). My father said, this does not make him happy. Then I said, you know what, I can, of course, continue pretending to be straight, pretend to like a woman, get married to her, but for the rest of my life, I will have to shut up this part of my heart and lock it in chains, and I will not be happy. I will not be able to truly love her, and she will not be happy because I cannot give her what she wants. If we have children, they will also be unhappy. HOW MUCH UNHAPPINESS WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU TO BE HAPPY , I asked my father. My mother said, if you get married and you have children, there will be someone to take care of you and you won't be so lonely. So I looked at her and said, you're married, you have children.  DO YOU DARE TELL ME YOU'RE NOT LONELY? We're all lonely, but we can still be here for each other. I have learned to be independent and through my independence, I have learned that...

  Dr Terri Apter, a psychologist and senior tutor at Newnham College, Cambridge University, who carried out the research for her new book What Do You Want From Me?, found that two-thirds of daughters-in-law believed that their husband's mother frequently exhibited jealous, maternal love towards their sons.  Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict often emerges from an expectation that each is criticising or undermining the other, but this mutual unease may have less to do with actual attitudes and far more to do with persistent female norms that few of us manage to shake off completely,' she added. For example, although a daughter-in-law is an adult in her own household, a mother-in-law's maternal expertise is already established and she may expect deference. 'There then arises that tricky question about who is "mother" in the family, with final say over all those things women still assume charge over: housework and child care, meal times and children's...