It's intentional. I was deliberately withholding information from the audience early, and feeding it to them in little bites as the piece moved forward. The more information given, the more the narrative was supposed to reflect the state of the boy.
I find it to be difficult to truly be subtle because you have to find the meeting point between feeding information and hitting people over the head with it. That was one of my exercises with this piece--to try to slowly feed information about who these people were and how they ended up in this situation, and why. Having the information there without it being directly told to you can be difficult to pull off correctly. (I am reminded of M Night Shyamalan's comment about "I see dead people" -- he didn't want to put it in because he thought it was spoiling the whole plot--but most people missed it, and it turned into one of the movie's most quoted lines.)
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Date: 2002-05-26 02:12 pm (UTC)I find it to be difficult to truly be subtle because you have to find the meeting point between feeding information and hitting people over the head with it. That was one of my exercises with this piece--to try to slowly feed information about who these people were and how they ended up in this situation, and why. Having the information there without it being directly told to you can be difficult to pull off correctly. (I am reminded of M Night Shyamalan's comment about "I see dead people" -- he didn't want to put it in because he thought it was spoiling the whole plot--but most people missed it, and it turned into one of the movie's most quoted lines.)