Episode 5: Prohibited

Question 1

What is the young woman’s main objective ?

Answer 1

• My objective is to socialise in a more comforting, welcoming environment without the pressures of society around me
• to escape the monotonous life of marriage through Richard Roe

Question 2

What are the obstacles to the young woman?

Answer 2

• The Telephone girls infatuation with Harry, the second man
• her own anxieties and discomforts when interacting with others

Question 3

What are some expressionistic techniques ?

Answer 3

• offstage change of clothes dramatic
• speakeasy is outside of society so perhaps the movement of the characters at the other two tables are exaggerated and fluid: broken out of the machine

Question 4

What is the playwrights intentions for this scene ?

Answer 4

Show the longing for the young woman’s desire to escape the machine encapsulating her colloquial life