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TS-BCC-StreetCarNamedDesire-2024 Flashcards

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Character analysis: Objective definition

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An objective is linked to their motivation. It is sometimes refered to as the ‘wants of the character’ meaning what the character most wants to happen or achieve/ their goal.

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Character analysis: Motivations definition

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The driving force or intention behind their actions. Usually a character has an overriding motive, which drives their actions throughout the play or in a particular scene.

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Character analysis: Function and Purpose definition

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It can often be attributed back to the playwright and WHY they placed the character in the play, especially regarding the effect the character has on others in the play.

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Character analysis: Traits definition

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Distinguishing features or qualities of the character in the play. This can be physical (how they look, dress, posture) or internal (thoughts, feelings, emotions and temperament)

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Character analysis: Status definition

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The position or standing one character has in relation to another/others or within the general world/society of the play. High status - character has power. Low status - character is subservient to one or more characters.

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Who wrote Streetcar and when?

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Tennessee Williams in 1947

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When and where was the play set?

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In the late 1940’s, post WW2, Elysian Feilds, New Orleans, at Stanley and Stella’s rented Apartment.

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What theatre style is the play?

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Naturalism

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What conventions of naturalism are evident in the script?

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  • heightened form of realism
  • shows good and bad/flaws of society
  • social injustices
  • designs and costume from daily life
  • props, set & costumes detailed and historically accurate
  • low class characters
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Themes of the play

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Fantasy and Delusion, Femininity and Dependence, Masculinity and Physicality, (Desire & death & destruction, passion and sexuality, class differences)

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Symbols of the play

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Bathing, Alcohol and Drunkeness, shadows

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Production intentions

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Female lens, Fear manifests as aggression, events true then and now, Harsh realities juxtaposed with comedy (multiplicity), draw audience into the story.

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Blanche DuBois

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Nikki Sheils

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Stanley Kowalski

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Mark Leonard Winter

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Stella DuBois

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Michelle Lim Davidson

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Harold ‘Mitch’ Mitchell

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Steve Mouzakis

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Director

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Anne-Louise Sarks

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Set & Costume Designer

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Mel Page

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Lighting designer

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Niklas Pajanti

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Music designer

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Stefan Gregory

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Sociocultural

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  • Set after American civil-war - 1865 onwards
  • Slavery was abolished & plantations failed
  • Southern values of heritage, importance of ancestry, racism still exists, and poverty was prominent
  • Working-class men and migrants were prominent
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An objective is linked to their motivation. It is sometimes reffered to as the ‘wants of the character’ meaning what the character most wants to happen or achieve/ their goal.

A

Character analysis: Objective definition

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The driving force or intention behind their actions. Usually a character has an overriding motive, which drives their actions throughout the play or in a particular scene.

A

Character analysis: Motivations definition

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It can often be attributed back to the playwright and WHY they placed the character in the play, especially regarding the effect the character has on others in the play.

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Character analysis: Function and Purpose definition

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Distinguishing features or qualities of the character in the play. This can be physical (how they look, dress, posture) or internal (thoughts, feelings, emotions and temperament)

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Character analysis: Traits definition

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The position or standing one character has in relation to another/others or within the general world/society of the play. High status - character has power. Low status - character is subservient to one or more characters.

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Character analysis: Status definition

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Intention: Female Lens
examples

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  • Eunice and GeeGee upstairs = companionship & world separate to men (while they play poker) women have their own lives
  • Blanche on the bed as black petals fall/ flower seller reps history of death = Blanche will also age and die
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Intention: What is private is public
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  • Upstairs area = oppressive/close proximity to everyone
  • Blanche’s finale - everyone is there when Blanche is most vulnerable/ judged in public
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Intention: 2024 and 1940’s coexist - its not a museum piece.
examples

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  • Electric guitar brings present into the play
  • Modern colour palette of house/ minimalist and solid

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