Genre Movement

Street Car Named Desire realistic play with social and psychological conflicts a clear picture of the middle of XX century

Waiting 1953 Absurb Paradigm of absurb.

Form shape

Action

(Aston and Savone) 11 scenes, different moments. Unities with a beggining, development and an end. Every scene is a unity Connected with realism: to show a whole series of events T.Williams needs a long time to present the story: We understand that the plat takes seven or six month, we need all this time to past, we need these references until we have the final sece Arrival/ Birth/ Departure Story of someone invaded and the consecuences of that invesion Invasion: arrival and departure.

two main parts: ACT 1 and ACT 2 WE need a second one to reinforce the repetition, but we don't need a third one The need to repeat everything again

Waiting . Stillness

Characters

characters from different backgrounds inmgrant, parents came from poland.New wave of inmmigration, new type of hero and value. Conflict will be reinforced because of these different background.

Very little background, no many characteristics to define apparently they are male characters They are here, waiting. Nothing to be done or to be said. They look like tramps

Language Characters intentions

Psychological traits: Blanche: Hysteria, She is about to fall, about having a crisis, or she is in the middle of the crisis. She is in a crisis. She was dismissed from the place she live, no place to go, but she finds a different context. Her arrival will produce effects. South traditional women, mix ethnic, alliances in this play as well. Blanche and Stella, Stella and Stanly. All sort of movements and alliaces. Character that more and less power. Communication is coherent what they say is understood, what they speak is displayed

no money, having only the basis ( a carrot, etc) no evolution.

Communication is incoherent character have serious problmes of communication

Crossed communication there is no transition between physical and existential worries ( Space Time Invaded Space How character will defend their territory apartment ( familiy life) Time is the chronological time Time passes chronologically Time is gone Time is part of Characters' anguish Is this Monday? I've lost my watch Times is over

Theatricality Violence Theatre colours element Birthday turns into a disaster Music Dense development in order to create the tension Intertex Blanche's a English Teacter tuality Poe presences Mus : blues and polkas of other colours : use of colours texts in the Poker night: Setting, reference to a play Van Gogh Picture. ( The Night Caf)

Subtle, becket explores for different elements to create theathrical moments Absence is pointed out as the one that is always there not being there When the messenger comes they have this expecation Religious intertext Lucky's speech: fragments of other texts ( scientific papers, etc)

Character as described as wearing specific costumes Blanches, wearing a red dress :a red spot

Zoo Story 1958 In between absurb and realism the play was received as an absurb play City life and city experiences have demonstrated that the zoo story shows close and realistic situation. Central Park . Someone sitting ina Sunday evening. An Urban Play: life of big cities. These character have to be considered under the context of big city. Modern City. New York City. Central Park. 1 Act It may be dividied into 3 units: introduction, jerry and the dog an the end But Albee concises the action

Jerry leads the action, starts the conversation, pushes Peter out of the Bench, and force Peter to kill him. Encounter: this is was Jerry looking for He wants to tell his life to someone, he wants the other one to encounter Invasion, incounter, connection. Long Scene, recognition. ?????? Death? Final scene: a way to death ??? The Tempest: the story starts in the middle. In media res. ? Story and Plot: The play stars: jerry meets Peter. The story is the background of each character. Before that we have: Jerry and the Dog,Jerry and the Landlady. Story is longer than the play.The story goes long before and the story could continue. Plot: actual presentation of the events. What we have from then and on Albee decides to start his play with Jerrys encounter, then Jerry and the Dog. The plot is the actual disposition of events. The plot is the real creation, stories are similar, well known The art of the writes / play writer is to combine the events Albee combine these events in this way. how writers combines the events that is plot. (organization of the events Distinction form Peter and Jerry: Peter: bourgois background, family, dog, well dress. And Jerry is the other way. They stands for different social backgrounds. Jerry is the talkative, active, the one who knows world beyond central pary, walking beyond the familiar limits

Peter only knows about central part and East Side

Disconnection and inability to keep a conversation, to express somethingc clear Crossed communitacion, playing wth

Jerry is the one that leads the conversation and action he he leads the subjects, He is charge of language Peter speaks very little inbalanced encounter Invaded Space How character will defend their territory Bench ( bench as Life, the row we have to dealt with Time is very concentrated

Jerry is a theatrical element by himself concentrating all the theatrical elements

Television: another world You will see this on TV" Jerry and The dog: Frame narrative inside the text The Zoo is another intertext. ( The Zoo Story) Magazines and Books- Peter works in a publishing house-

Popular magazines in the States. New York and all the different places where Jerry Walks.

Caretaker ( 1960) Absurb Space that pinters presents has characteristics of being absurb. The many objects spread out the room. Not ina realistic room, not a room, something else

3 ACTS Pinter needs some time for the presentation of this situation: Davies arrives and Davies departs: Pinter needs certain moments to introduce these moments Simetry between the three acts and the three characters, simmetrical shape.

Invasion. Arrival and Depature: Someones arrives and you have the effects: someone has to depart. ( Blanche and Davies must depart)

WE know very little about the character. Mike: very little about him. Aston's brother. He helps Aston, he makes him caretaker of his premises. Davies: what he says is a lie. An outcast. No place, no money, nothing to eat. underdog. Aston and Mick. Strange characters. Dealing with universal question.

Who they are? What are they purposes in life? Ambiguity. Identity. Mick knows about decoration and some stories and how to deal with Davies, He is the owner, the one who unsmaked Davies. Ambiguious identity: Where are Davies paper? When will go for them? S When the weather changes Aston's shed: not goinf to be build, Davies: Old man: generational clash, having this old man departing to nowhere ( what shall I do? Where am I going to do ?) Davies: a father invading the life of his sons, Freudian interpretation. Generational gap. Different vital p processes.

Invaded Space

How character will defend their territory Room: symbol of the only place where you can be yourself, the refuge Humans womb: the only secure place. The moment we are born, our problems starts, coming out is dealt with the hostility of the room. Oustide room is a place of danger. The room can not be closed forever, the dorr the door opens and you have to dealt with danger The play between act 1 and 2 we have very little time and then we have 2 weels artificial disposition of time,. Not chronological development is important, we get involved in this chaos, but time is not longer important. The pla develops and the direction of the action is a negative, time will demonstrate that Davies intentions are negative. Davies is the enemy. Dense characters Chaos

Decoration is the intertext. Mick is telling Davies what he will have to do if he stays as the caretaker: references to carpetsCity is another intertext Mick refers to London , all the places he mentions exists, confussing.