Another concept he introduced in Malta is the thesis play.
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He received his master's degree in 1997 and his thesis play, " One of the Children, " was subsequently given a reading at SoHo Rep.
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His thesis plays out during the course of a single day in which two handfuls of emotionally stunted characters go about their lives, unaware that their actions are pre-ordained by the movements of others throughout Paris.
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"New Masses " faulted Hellman's vague depiction of fascism while praising " the sincerity of purpose of a dramatist who possesses potentialities far beyond the grasp of any other writer on the contemporary theater scene . " " The Nation " said the play " avoid [ s ] the flat didacticism and the thinness of characterization usually so evident in thesis plays ."
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They range from " What Rough Beast Slouches, " about Kaiser Wilhelm II, to " Three Weeks, " about the Berlin Olympics of 1936, to " Second-Hand Hagiology, " his thesis play at UGA, about a group home for dead saints ( displaced from bombed churches in Wiesbaden ) and a gaggle of American Army wives who want to turn the home into a thrift shop.
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