Tragedy and Comedy are terms that divide the whole field of human culture. On the one hand there are productions that draw attention to the divergence of individual interests, and thus to individual failure, and on the other those forms that stimulate a shared bark of common triumph, which implicitly emphasises the convergence of interests and obscures those disasters that actually befall each and every one of us. It is hardly surprising that of these forms the latter is preferred, the reality of the vision it projects being so uncommon.