Discuss how the actor playing brick will perform the role to a contemporary
audience (40 marker)
- Relevant point
- Point
- Evidence
- Theatre link
- Analysis
- Intro
Notes:
- Discuss how to present Brick to modern eyes? Tennesse Willaims came out as much
as he could for this play (big deal for the time) to make it palpable to audience at the
time Maggie has to say “of course it was only Skipper acting on this” as he is unliving
and thats what happens to gay people however Brick still alive and therefore cannot -
would be fitting to 1950s however to contemporary have to make it feel apparent and
get rid or use to the gay shame
- Is it important to see how people reacted to them or as progressed show he did have a
relationship with Skipper - if overt never would have got on the stage
- Is it important for us to show that Brick is man who doesn’t fit mould of toxic
masculinity - being childless is fine in contemporary however is it for 1950s (shows
he can’t get it up and fulfil his role)
- Asking about acting therefore
- Big Daddy and Brick and Maggie and Brick - convey escalation and shows
passiveness
- Intro -- Therefore as an actor playing Brick I will use voice, physicality, spatial
relationships. Having done this I will choose … specific extracts … all of my ideas
will be performed on an end stage similar to e.g. the Linton Theatre… - must mention
the staging as to allow the examiners to understand the staging better
- Want you to cover almost every single line in the extract you chose - make sure
concept for every line
- For live theatre production connect themes from cat - the production
Intro: As an actor playing Brick, for the contemporary audience, I will use vocality,
physicality, spatial relationships to convey the contrast between masculinity of Big Daddy
and Brick, the taboo of homesexuality in the 1950s and the lack of children which weakens
Brick’s manhood. Having done this I will choose this specific extract; page 26 on the line
‘well I remember we double dated in college’ to page 27 ‘he’s got to let you admit it to him’,
as my points are highlighted in the conflict between Brick and Maggie on this page. My next
extract is page 65 ‘it's too rare to be normal’ ending on page 66 ‘Maggie the cat’. As I feel
this not only contrasts the conversation with Maggie and Brick with his relationship with Big
audience (40 marker)
- Relevant point
- Point
- Evidence
- Theatre link
- Analysis
- Intro
Notes:
- Discuss how to present Brick to modern eyes? Tennesse Willaims came out as much
as he could for this play (big deal for the time) to make it palpable to audience at the
time Maggie has to say “of course it was only Skipper acting on this” as he is unliving
and thats what happens to gay people however Brick still alive and therefore cannot -
would be fitting to 1950s however to contemporary have to make it feel apparent and
get rid or use to the gay shame
- Is it important to see how people reacted to them or as progressed show he did have a
relationship with Skipper - if overt never would have got on the stage
- Is it important for us to show that Brick is man who doesn’t fit mould of toxic
masculinity - being childless is fine in contemporary however is it for 1950s (shows
he can’t get it up and fulfil his role)
- Asking about acting therefore
- Big Daddy and Brick and Maggie and Brick - convey escalation and shows
passiveness
- Intro -- Therefore as an actor playing Brick I will use voice, physicality, spatial
relationships. Having done this I will choose … specific extracts … all of my ideas
will be performed on an end stage similar to e.g. the Linton Theatre… - must mention
the staging as to allow the examiners to understand the staging better
- Want you to cover almost every single line in the extract you chose - make sure
concept for every line
- For live theatre production connect themes from cat - the production
Intro: As an actor playing Brick, for the contemporary audience, I will use vocality,
physicality, spatial relationships to convey the contrast between masculinity of Big Daddy
and Brick, the taboo of homesexuality in the 1950s and the lack of children which weakens
Brick’s manhood. Having done this I will choose this specific extract; page 26 on the line
‘well I remember we double dated in college’ to page 27 ‘he’s got to let you admit it to him’,
as my points are highlighted in the conflict between Brick and Maggie on this page. My next
extract is page 65 ‘it's too rare to be normal’ ending on page 66 ‘Maggie the cat’. As I feel
this not only contrasts the conversation with Maggie and Brick with his relationship with Big
