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Three Types of Story: Survival, Love, & Quest

I think there are only three types of stories. There’s the survival story, the love story, and the quest story. That’s it. And each story can be told as either a comedy or a drama with extreme comedy being satire and extreme drama being tragedy. As far as genres go each type of story can have multiple types of genres so, for example, you can have a science fiction or fantasy story that is about survival, or you can have a historical fiction or a vampire story that is about love.

Interview with Mark Bellamy and Sayer Roberts: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder at Stage West

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak is one of the most entertaining and fun shows I’ve seen on a Calgary stage. I sat down with the director of the show Mark Bellamy and actor Sayer Roberts who plays Monty to talk with them about the play, musical theatre, and our predictions of who will sit on the Iron Throne.