Day 3

Interior Chinatown Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    How does the line between fiction and reality blur in Act III? What effect does this have on our understanding of the characters?

    Although Act III is written almost exclusively as a scene from Black and White, the actors move back and forth between playing their roles and being themselves. Part of this overlap occurs because of the way the chapter is written: even when Turner and Green have broken character and are discussing what their lines should be, their dialogue is not put in quotations but remains under their character names as in a screenplay. Later, during the middle of a scene, Willis and Turner get into an argument. When Green refers to Willis as "Asian Guy"...

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