Behind the screen door reading

here are some notes/ thought provoking passages

the writer's thesis breaks down into 3 different things. how did the door create tragedy?
in sitcoms why is the door always unlocked? and are the doors we see in on TV the stage different than the doors we see on stage?
according to him the door evolved tragedy because "the door hides; and the door reveals" Agamemnon's screams would not have been hidden and the surprise of him erupting through the door would not have provided the intended sympathetic audience reaction.
The door in a sitcom is unlocked because it allows for the miscreants to come and go at free will providing an unblocked way to add conflict in the story.
there is a difference between the door of tv and the door of tragedy "On stage, a door is a sign of the liminal, the unknown, the potential, the terrifying, the endless. On screen, a door is a sighn of a door."


"what is theater, after all, if not a series of exits and entrances?"

"theater functions as a kind of collective dream for the society . It is the door into the soul of humankind."

"The door is a threshold, a liminal space that marks a boundary between two spaces yet belongs to neither"

"A passage between two spaces- two world- that the door signifies is a dangerous one."