Thanks, Steve - that's interesting, how the acts played 'true to form' like that.
I wonder: how did the fact that the players knew (and were told repeatedly) about the drama-comedy-tragedy paradigm affect the way they played/chose to play the holes....perhaps a self fulfilling prophecy as it were.
PM is such an outside the box thinker (relatively speaking) and priides himself on doing things differently that it doesn't suprise me that he turned the paradigm on its head: it was a tragedy-comedy-drama for Phil. If he were King Richard III, he'd be yelling "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse" in Ac1 I, Scene 3....