
About Tannahill’s dramatic text Declarations is certainly one of the most striking and revealing dramatic texts of our century, addressing the current social situation and thus the inevitable catastrophe of the (Western) world not only with its chosen theme but also with the form itself. In its microcosm, the text depicts the author’s mother at the moment when she falls ill with an incurable disease and is about to depart from this world. This starting point (probably) touches on ...