The style of the Laramie Project is not what I expected. I had assumed that the play would just act out the events leading up to and after the murder of Mathew Shepard, but it was much more. Instead, the writers chose to blend interviews and journals together to create the story. Even the people interviewed for the play didn't expect it to be contrived in such a way, "Now, how's he gonna use that in his play?" (15) says Allison Mears. It was so cleaver that the authors were able to use that quote and it brings humor and insight that this is a different sort of storytelling. It is also cool to use the journals and the interviews because it seems more like a documentry or a 60 minutes episode allthough much more creative than something they would air.
Trifles was written in a much different style, a style which I am more familiar with and expect theater to be like. Triffles is a straight forward creation. The audience can imagine all of the events in the story as actually happening. Triffles transports the audience into the house where the death occured. Triffles also has a clear messege--the trained are not necessarily the best for the job. What I mean by this is, it is the women who are mocked for paying attention to detail that find the possible motive that the men need to sway the jury. The quote that best exemplifies my theory is, as they are leaving the houe the county attorny mocks, "She was going to--what is it you call it, ladies?" (211). He is mocking the ladies for wondering if Mrs.Wright was going to knot or quilt. It was attention to detail such as this that helped the women find the dead bird.