Thank you, Martin!
To be honest I didn’t think about the genre until now that you asked the question.
After quickly scanning a couple of articles on line, I would say the most appropriate genre would be a tragedy.
To this day I don’t know how I can give the story a realistic happy ending and I am trying to explore the idea of personhood and how we objectify the other. Belonging and the longing for belonging. I guess all that translates into the human suffering of the characters involved.
I see the play as three people.
A man, a spouse, a lover/sex worker.
In it I’m trying to ask the question not only of what relationships mean, but who we are in relation with those relationships. How do the way we relate to one another affect the way we relate in society.
At some point I was thinking about including a sort of chorus that would be the voice of society, but I did not write a single line for the chorus.
Because I need the spouse for the play, I think I’ll have to eventually make the story about the Spouse finding out the man’s infidelity. I envision the lover/sex worker as the person who will call the man/make the man realize he is objectifying as much as he assumes he has been objectified/denied personhood through his life. That he cannot be seen because he cannot see others either.
Sorry, again, making this too long already. Just thinking out loud.
Yes, I would like to see it performed but also I may end up having a version composed of poems and prose (I mean, it’s easy to turn a poem into a dialogue line. You just turn the stanzas into sentences, I guess!).
I downloaded the play. I’ll start reading.