Background Information

Question 1

When was it written?

Answer 1

1947

Question 2

Background info

Answer 2

Reflects the post-war immigration, racism, post-economic depression, mental instability and fluid gender roles.

Question 3

Ao5

Answer 3

Part of the emerging drama genre ‘kitchen sink drama’

Question 4

Generalised info

Answer 4

Two roomed apartment- no safe place for women.
Domestic, psychological tragedy- no actual deaths.
Centred on characters who struggle in an emerging new world (Blanche and Stanley)
Mixes realism (dialogue, props, setting) and expressionism ( symbolic lighting, sounds, props and a move to stylised, poetic dialogue).
Blurred gender roles.
Another dominating personality in the house.
Social realism. Expressionism.
Language bound drama- modernity- visuals, sounds, stagecraft.
Plastic theatre- untraditional and highly symbolic theatre.

Question 5

Generalised info

Answer 5

Two roomed apartment- no safe place for women.
Domestic, psychological tragedy- no actual deaths.
Centred on characters who struggle in an emerging new world (Blanche and Stanley)
Mixes realism (dialogue, props, setting) and expressionism ( symbolic lighting, sounds, props and a move to stylised, poetic dialogue).
Blurred gender roles.
Another dominating personality in the house.
Social realism. Expressionism.
Language bound drama- modernity- visuals, sounds, stagecraft.
Plastic theatre- untraditional and highly symbolic theatre.