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The pause. He put it in his first playscript and it became a very big thing, though he was never quite sure why.
His plays tend to involve very normal, [[Random Events Plot|slice of life stories]] of characters acting slightly absurdly, often including very dysfunctional families/relationships. Often his plays occur in real time - 70 minutes on stage is 70 minutes in the script. The realism that he brought to the stage was jarring and unnerving to an audience, and in a way could be related to the sort of thing that [[Anton Chekhov]] had done in Russia decades before. When someone says 'please pass the salt' they inevitably mean 'our marriage is a sham and I hate you'.
The dialogue is also characterised by frequent [[Parrot Exposition|repetition and questioning]].<br />Does he?<br />He does.<br />Oh yes. I guess he does.<br />You guess?<br />
...and so on.
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