Plays Flashcards
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law.
Tennessee Williams, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller, 1949. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who is despondent with his life, and appears to be slipping into senility.
Arthur Miller, 1949. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who is despondent with his life, and appears to be slipping into senility.
Death of a Salesman
Crucible, The
Arthur Miller, 1953. In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 A small group of girls ‘cry out’ against other people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft, in an attempt to cover up their own dabblings in the occult. Led by Abigail Williams, the girls’ accusations cause a court to be formed to investigate the alleged crimes.
Arthur Miller, 1953. In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 A small group of girls ‘cry out’ against other people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft, in an attempt to cover up their own dabblings in the occult. Led by Abigail Williams, the girls’ accusations cause a court to be formed to investigate the alleged crimes.
Crucible, The
Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose, 1954. Twelve jurors are present to debate the fate of a young boy accused of his father’s murder.
Reginald Rose, 1954. Twelve jurors are present to debate the fate of a young boy accused of his father’s murder.
Twelve Angry Men
West Side Story
Arthur Laurents; Jerome Robbins; Leonard Bernstein; Stephen Soundheim, 1957. The rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The Sharks, who are recent migrants from Puerto Rico, and the Jets, who are white, vie for dominance of the neighborhood, and the police try to keep order. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang’s leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks.
Arthur Laurents; Jerome Robbins; Leonard Bernstein; Stephen Soundheim, 1957. The rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The Sharks, who are recent migrants from Puerto Rico, and the Jets, who are white, vie for dominance of the neighborhood, and the police try to keep order. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang’s leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks.
West Side Story
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Edward Albee, 1962. The dysfunctional and self-destructive marriage between a history professor and his wife, witnessed over the course of one night following a party.
Edward Albee, 1962. The dysfunctional and self-destructive marriage between a history professor and his wife, witnessed over the course of one night following a party.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Fiddler on the Roof
Jerry Bock; Sheldon Hamick; Joseph Stein, 1964. Set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka, who attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family’s lives. He must cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love; their choices of husbands are successively less palatable for Tevye. An edict of the tsar eventually evicts the Jews from their village.
Jerry Bock; Sheldon Hamick; Joseph Stein, 1964. Set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka, who attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family’s lives. He must cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love; their choices of husbands are successively less palatable for Tevye. An edict of the tsar eventually evicts the Jews from their village.
Fiddler on the Roof
Odd Couple, The
Neil Simon, 1964. When their respective marriages fall apart, endearing slob Oscar Madison invites his former college friend Felix Unger to move in with him.
