Shreds of Tenderness

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The family dynamics at the center of play become a microcosm on sorts that represents the larger political realities. Odie and Wak are situated as symbolic figures that embody the ways the population of an entire country can split part in their political perspectives that—through the facilitation of media propaganda—spread like a virus into all aspects of culture until everything about human nature begins to viewed narrowly through a glass darkly smudged by those political differences. Odie and Wak have become so emotionally separated from each other that there seems like likelihood of reconciliation, yet that is exactly what happens. In turn, this reconciliation at the personal level becomes the foundation of reconciliation at a thematic level applicable to populations within countries and well as relationships existing between rival nations.