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'''Carrington''' is a friend of [[Joseph]] and [[Lula]] from their college days. [[Conway]] has the chance to meet him at [[Equus Oils]] in [[Act I]]. | '''Carrington''' is a friend of [[Joseph]] and [[Lula]] from their college days. [[Conway]] has the chance to meet him at [[Equus Oils]] in [[Act I]]. | ||
Throughout the story, Carrington searches for an outdoor venue to perform his play, an experimental adaptation of Robert Frost's [[wikipedia:The Death of the Hired Man|"The Death of the Hired Man"]]. He is also director of the play ''[[The Entertainment]]''. In talking with [[Shannon]] at the [[Random Access Self-Storage Facility]] in [[Act III]], he references many others plays as well, such as ''[[wikipedia:Oresteia|Oresteia]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Iceman Cometh|The Iceman Cometh]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:The Glass Menagerie|The Glass Menagerie]]''. He claims drama is only his second love; his true calling is pseudoscience. | Throughout the story, Carrington searches for an outdoor venue to perform his play, an experimental adaptation of Robert Frost's [[wikipedia:The Death of the Hired Man|"The Death of the Hired Man"]]. He is also director of the play ''[[The Entertainment]]''. In talking with [[Shannon]] at the [[Random Access Self-Storage Facility]] in [[Act III]], he references many others plays as well, such as ''[[wikipedia:Oresteia|Oresteia]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Iceman Cometh|The Iceman Cometh]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:The Glass Menagerie|The Glass Menagerie]]''. In the preface of [[Act II], in talking with [[Lula]], he quotes the French dramatist [[wikipedia:Antonin Artaud|Antonin Artaud]]. He claims drama is only his second love; his true calling is pseudoscience. | ||
A [[wrongle]] of Carrington is viewable at http://kentuckyroutezero.com/phonebooth.wrongle. | A [[wrongle]] of Carrington is viewable at http://kentuckyroutezero.com/phonebooth.wrongle. | ||