"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?" To what extent do you find this statement applicable in at least two plays you have studied?
This statement is true in many plays that I have read. In the tragedy Othello, the story starts with two men going off to a house to tell someone their daughter has been stolen. There are no boring parts where the characters are just doing nothing. They cut right to all the action and drama. The same applies to Oedipus the King. The play starts with a plague, and only a few pages into it, Oedipus gets into a fight with a blind prophet, and he is told that he murdered the former king. Oedipus says the seer was told to say that by next to the throne Creon, who he then curses and threatens to exile him. Nothing boring at all so far. Inside Oedipus recalls that he may have killed the king in a rage when his cart hit him. Nothing boring is present in either of these two plays. Something does happen in between events in the plays, but they are not mentioned. So yes, drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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