Love and Information and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof context
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- Created on: 22-03-19 18:03
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- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- first performed at the Morsco Theatre in 1955
- directed by Elia Kazan
- this production feature a second third act where in Maggie was more sympathetic, Brick had and 'moral awakening' and Big Daddy reappears
- The Set featured a double bed with an eccentric headboard which the play would focus around
- many were unhappy with the theme of homosexual attitudes
- National Theatre Productions
- the use of nudity and sexual promiscuity
- shower on stage, open with no walls
- the back wall was like a water feature.
- all set into the bedroom, with desk, bed dresser and mess on the floor
- Tennessee Williams life
- grew up in Mississippi where the play was set
- his father was a heavy drinker and left Williams feeling emasculated
- he had an overbearing mother like big mama
- he was a homosexual and this influenced the repressive sexuality of Brick
- 1950's lifestyle
- the bible belt in the south, most southern states are overly religious
- post war baby-boom and marriage rates increasing as well as the average age for female marriage decreasing
- civil war 1861-65
- the old south, traditional Plantation life, American dream and the value of the working man
- first performed at the Morsco Theatre in 1955
- Love and Information
- first performed at the Royal Court Theater
- directed by James MacDonald
- cast of 16 actors
- clinical white cube set, with hallucinatory distinctiveness
- the lack of description allows for fear tp be embraced
- about encountering your own thinking and feeling
- the stage had shutters that covered up the stage, and the props were replaced quickly. each scene would have a unique soundscape and lighting
- Carol Churchill
- born in 1938 - making her 69 when she wrote this play
- writes plays about feminine issues like Top-Girls, loosing humanity to gain power
- 2007 lifestyle
- iPhone was released
- 2006 twitter was created
- Facebook was created in 2004
- eharmony was created in 2000
- other productions
- white clinical set, box like lighting, confined
- set with movable boxes that create swimming pools
- socio=political theatre
- 'Great innvoator of pot-wartheatre"
- very political, plays about cloning and top girls
- "Brecht alienation"
- themes of sexism, capitalism, war,postmodern and race
- plays are protean - easily changeable"
- first performed at the Royal Court Theater
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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