Performance Context
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- Created on: 27-05-18 14:23
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- Performance Context
- 1951 Kazan film
- Vivien Leigh was a Hollywood celeb who'd won an Oscar for the Southern Belle Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
- GWTW's most famous location, Tara, the fabled plantation which Scarlett adores, would've been the iconic template evoked in minds of most of W's contemporaries with every mention of BR
- people have speculated TW had Leigh in mind when writing B
- in some ways, fundamental contrast between Brando & Leigh as practitioners of their craft echoes unbridgeable gulf between B & Stan.
- Jessica Tandy who played B in original Broadway stage production not a big enough box office star to headline and edgy production dealing with ****, promiscuity & homosexuality
- Vivien Leigh was a Hollywood celeb who'd won an Oscar for the Southern Belle Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
- GWTW's most famous location, Tara, the fabled plantation which Scarlett adores, would've been the iconic template evoked in minds of most of W's contemporaries with every mention of BR
- people have speculated TW had Leigh in mind when writing B
- in some ways, fundamental contrast between Brando & Leigh as practitioners of their craft echoes unbridgeable gulf between B & Stan.
- Vivien Leigh was a Hollywood celeb who'd won an Oscar for the Southern Belle Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
- as to a whole gen. of cinemagoers, Leigh was the archetypal belle of US pop culture, her wrecked & ruined turn as TW's belle gone bad seems to capture something of the apparently inevitable decline of the South itself
- Marlon Brando as Stanley
- at 1st mocked by traditionalists for his 'mumbling' delivery but was instantly acclaimed by younger gen. as a groundbreaking new talent
- was a method actor
- was a method actor
- Vivien Leigh was a Hollywood celeb who'd won an Oscar for the Southern Belle Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
- Manchester performance
- whole performance done on a green floor
- perhaps to symbolise that the action of the entire play is being played out on the poker table
- esp. powerful when consider "nothing belongs belong on a poker table but cards, chips & beer"
- poker table is representative of Stan.'s world that B not wanted in/ able to survive in
- had a woman of mixed race playing Ste.
- Theatre Clwyd performance
- sense of she's moved forward into the 'new' world of US
- NO far more multicultural whereas BR & Old South v white
- Theatre Clwyd performance
- 1951 Kazan film
- during final scene, the set that made up the apartment was gradually taken away
- representative of B's mental state falling apart
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