One of the most interesting things we did this week was to try and give sense to the play as it is and express our vision of it. Obviously it was quite challenging to create a vision after the play has been made, because a vision usually would come before the play is created, and with that vision we start shaping the play as we see fit. But what we realized as we discussed in class is that theory usually comes AFTER practice, and not the other way around, thus our vision, even if created after the play had already been started, is valid. When we talked about who and what a protagonist was, we concluded that a protagonist was the character which made the biggest effort to get what he wanted, there needed to be an object or goal that he had to make a certain amount of effort to get. But is there only one kind of protagonist? I mean, if there was a play about a character which did nothing, yet things happened to him without any kind of effort, would he still be a protagonist? I think there can be different types of protagonists, and we can only create a sort of "profile" of a protagonist depending on the most frequent one we see in plays within our context and society. I presonally think that a protagonist can be the character who's actions have the biggest impact on the overall development of the story, he can have a goal or object to get to, or simply just a bystander of circumnstances that change him/her and therefore taking their story to another direction. I havent seen many plays where I can easily identify the protagonist, I mean apart form children's stories and plays which are REALLY obvious, the protagonist seems to unfold throughout the play and at some point we realize that he /she actually is the protagonist, I preffer them to be that way, for the character to change, and be shaped, rather than staying on a flat position and not changing much. That is, i realized, what I look for in a play the development of characters in situations, for I find un-changing characters quite boring.

Can there be more than one protagonist in a play? what if there are parallel sotries with two "protagonists" whos stories merge at some point?