Cat set notes

Question 1

It was directed by

Answer 1

Elia Kazan

Question 2

what would Thrust stage convay in CAT

Answer 2

• Intrusion/ lack of privacy
• makes the characters seem improssoned
• origninal stage was trianglular and the audience were the walls “walls have ears”

Question 3

It has two enterences on the thrust stage

Answer 3

• Vomitoriums
• makes for surprising enerances
• alignes with the theme of intrusion

Question 4

Back wall would consist of a cyclorama

Answer 4

• represent the passing of time as people frequently walk past it
• “the set should evoke some ghosts”

Question 5

Time period/ historical context

Answer 5

• 1950s
• original production Morosco theatre
• USA was very homophobic (hayes code, Eisenhower’s laws)