The Glass Menagerie Talk to me What did

The Glass Menagerie • Talk to me…. • What did you think?

Aristotle’s Dramatic Elements • What are they?

Aristotle’s Dramatic Elements • • • Plot Character Language Theme Music Spectacle

On your Mac • When did Tennessee Williams live and how did he die? • What can you tell me?

Tennessee Williams (1911 -1983) American Playwright

Awards for Writing • 1944 Pulitzer Prize for The Glass Menagerie • 1948 Pulitzer Prize & Tony for Best Play for A Streetcar Named Desire • 1950 Tony for Best Play for The Rose Tatoo • 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • four New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Play • The National Art Club's Medal of Honor for Literature in 1975. • 1980 President Carter awarded the Medal of Freedom to Williams

The Glass Menagerie http: //www. playbill. com/news/article/st. -louisblues-new-glass-menagerie-revival-opens-on -broadway-march-22 -124814

Ford Theatre in D. C. opened Jan 22, 2016 • http: //www. fordstheatre. org/home/perform ances-events/2015 -2016 -theatreseason/glass-menagerie-videos

Google images of design • Find images of Glass Menagerie and share with class

2015 Broadway set

Design Choices • • • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Delaware Theatre Company John Grissilli, Director 2004

Video footage played along background walls and objects onstage to convey passing time and the feelings of characters—a novel touch for a classic play. Georgetown College 2011 production in honor of William’s 100 th Birthday

Georgetown College Director • While many playwrights can make an audience think, Goldman said, Williams stood alone in his ability to fuse the cerebral with the sentimental. “Williams is the poet laureate of the heart. We have other great American dramatists, but he was the one who was the most emotionally naked and lyrical, ” said Goldman. “I think his plays make the world a better place, a more humane place. There are playwrights I admire that I don’t feel that way about. ”

Triad Stage in North Carolina • http: //triangleartsandentertainment. org/201 0/09/triad-stage-puts-a-new-spin-on-theglass-menagerie/

Art Show Inspired by the Play

"There comes a time for departure, even when there is no place certain to go. " "The Glass Menagerie" ~Tennesse Williams Common themes in Williams' plays are escape and the many dynamics of sexual relationships

• He was derided by critics and blacklisted by Roman Catholic Cardinal Spellman, who condemned one of his scripts as "revolting, deplorable, morally repellent, offensive to Christian standards of decency. " He was Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest playwrights in American history.

Selected Plays written by Williams • • THE GLASS MENAGERIE A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CAMINO REAL SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANY MORE.

google • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof– Actors? – Design? – When written?

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Because of strict censorship Production Codes in the late 1950 s, all references to homosexuality and four-letter words were deleted, watered down, or obscured from the shocking, original play for the movie.

Films/ Plays/ Short Stories/ Novels

google • Streetcar Named Desire • Actors? • Awards?

A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh. . Blanche Du. Bois Marlon Brando. . Stanley Kowalski Kim Hunter. . Stella Kowalski Karl Malden. . Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

A Streetcar Named Desire Alec Baldwin . . Stanley Kowalski Jessica Lange . . Blanche Du. Bois John Goodman . . Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell Diane Lane . . Stella

"THEY TOLD ME to take a streetcar named Desire, transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields, " Blanche Du. Bois in Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Tennessee Williams (1911 -1983) American Playwright

Google David Mamet Tell me what you find

David Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, and sometimes vulgar dialogue and for his exploration of masculinity.

Writer, Director, Producer

Mamet…also known for language…. has affected film and stage as much as Williams did in his day.

The most recognized element of Mamet's style is his sparse, clipped dialogue. Although reminiscent of such playwrights as Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, Mamet's dialogue is so unique that it has become known as "Mametspeak". His language is not so much "naturalistic" as it is a poetic impression of streetwise jargon. Other signature elements of Mamet's style include minimalism and a lack of stage directions.

As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the. Plow (1988).

David Mamet once said that drama is about three things: 1. Who wants what from whom? 2. What happens if they don't get it? 3. Why now? • Mamet also believes that there is no such thing as character development. • There is only action and the characters’ reactions.

Glengarry Glen Ross

http: //www. broadway. com/shows/chinadoll/ Go to IMDB. Com http: //www. imdb. com/name/nm 0000519/ David Mamet See names of works written

As a screenwriter, Mamet received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997).

Christopher Durang Google him…. tell me things

CAN YOU TELL WHAT HE IS KNOWN FOR?

Keywords: satire, dark comedy, parody, funny, absurdist, lapsed catholic

Durang has had plays produced on and off. Broadway including A History of the American Film (Tony nomination), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie award), Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie award, Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie award), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, Miss Witherspoon (2005 Pulitzer finalist), and Adrift in Macao (book/lyrics Durang, music by Peter Melnick). Durang has acted in movies (Butcher’s Wife, Housesitter, Mr. North, Secret of My Success) as well as in his own plays.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Google it….

Tony Winner Best Play 2013

Plays : A History of the American Film (Tony nomination) Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy Baby With the Bathwater The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie Award and Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award) Laughing Wild Betty’s Summer Vacation (1999 Obie Award) Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (2002) Miss Witherspoon (2005 Pulitzer finalist), Adrift in Macao (music by Peter Melnick). Most recent: Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Public Theater, 2009, dir. Nicholas Martin) and the revival of The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Roundabout, 2008, dir. Walter Bobbie).

Definitions of parody : • make a spoof of or make fun of • a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way • spoof: make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" • humorous or satirical mimicry

Let’s Honor Williams & Mamet By reading/performing parodies by Durang Perform on Wed parodies scripts in hand- staged