Tennessee Williams's Life.

As teenagers, when Williams’ older sister Rose first became infatuated with a certain boy, Williams soon realized that he was also attracted to the same boy and his own sex.- Therefore in many of Williams' plays especially Street Car there are strong uses of bondage between siblings such as Stella and Blanche. 

Williams’ advice to young playwrights: “Don’t bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it’ll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.”- This keen interest and passion in exiting performances that constantly have a build of tension and various climax's with various view points and social problems to excite the audience and sustain their attention.

Williams changed his birth date from 1911 to 1914 to enter play-writing contests that he would have been too old to enter otherwise. And the fact that at the age of 12, Williams began to write.-These both show his outstanding interest to write amazing texts and why they are all so inspiring.
 
Williams was repulsed by bullfights.- This may be the reason for Williams use of a Bull as Stanley because he believe him fighting and beating Stella was repulsive.

Williams’ mother Edwina had a permanent blemish on her nose after her husband Cornelius slammed a door in her face.-This may suggest why he chose to use the violence and dominance between Stanley and Stella because of his mothers past with hiding what her husband had done much like Stella does. Also the covering of her imperfections much like Blanche because she is scared of how she will be perceived by others.

Williams once had a friend named Stanley Kowalski the same name as a central figure in Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire.- This shows even further about how his personal life had influenced his making of his famous novel, Streetcar.

Williams' sister suffered from mental problems and was taken away to a mental asylum- This shows that Williams had used his sisters condition in his writing and possible influenced the personality of Blanch Dubois being mentally unstable.

Both Williams and his father were alcoholics.- Again this has clearly influenced Williams Streetcar where Stanley is very precious about his liquor especially Whiskey and Stanley expressing his love for Whiskey and how it "touches people often" maybe speaking from personal opinion.


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150 words on Visual Aural Spacial for Equus

We performed the end of act 1 where Alan is explaining to Dysart about when we rode Eqqus. This scene is symbolic and shows Equss as a god, Alan names Equss as "My God-Slave" we as a group decided to take this symbolism meaning I, as Alan crowned Eqqus with the horse mask after being led by the horses to my place on Eqqus's back much like a god's slave.
The levels between the different horses and Eqqus was used in order to show Eqqus's superiority from the others. In the text Alan say's " The King rides out on Eqqus, mightiest of horses. Only I can ride him" we took this quote and created an image of the other horses on knelt beside Equus to connote a God like figure. I was on top of Equus commanding him to show that "Only I can ride him".   

150 words on Non Verbal Communication for Streetcar

Use of non verbal communication is a very intense performance practice, without the use of words acting becomes a lot harder to accomplish. I started with the scene in which Stanley patrols into his house drunk and causes quite an up rawr in the house aggressively stopping the good vibe and finally hitting Stella. 

When thinking about communicating this without the use of voice I knew that movement was to be very important and the use of facial expressions. I therefore create a very heavy walk and threw myself about much like a Bear. I also created a very wide face opening my eyes as wide as I could, blowing up my cheeks slightly and then biting very hard. I was charging around much like his zoomorphic animal figure of a bull and was finally settled down towards the end.

150 words on Movement

Movement is used in drama to help create a character and to express the emotions of a character and themes of a peice. We created still images that were to connote "trapped". My group and I created images of jail and a mental asylum. 

We then took scene 4 from "Street Car" The poker scene. Here Stanley, Steve, Pablo and Mitch are playing poker. Mitch clearly doesn't feel comfotable and to show this I, as Mitch, became small and very on edge using quick pacy movement to show that I was promt to leave. Mitch also was quite fragile due his sick mother therefore again used fast restricted movements to show aggression but attempting to remain calm. 

150 words on Interpretation and Practioner for Eqqus

In todays lesson we performed our devised Artaudian performance to the audience of our class, it was very successful and left the audience effected in the way we had forecasted to happen. We new from Artaud's techniques that the performance was to be very audience absorbed, we therefore chose for the audience to be Dysart and for us to be the children, we has children tormented each member of the audience to show the torment that Dysart felt as a result of the dream, this all helped to engage the audience and force them to feel like they we in the situation which is another one of Artauds techniques to make a performance as real as possible. 

Our use of randomised proxemics also helped to create the realistic performance and also individualised the performance so that it was like 8 separate performance for each member of the audience. Blindfolding the audience create fear on the audience by removing a sense the felt more hopeless and had no idea what to expect.

150 words on Non Verbal Communication for Equus

In Equus we rehearsed the cinema scene, using stylised and synchronised movements, we also hit on guttural sounds to create a sound collage. When creating this sound collage each individual had a different sound these were then layered over one and other and increasingly became louder and fast, this was to create tension. Each actor in the chorus had different movements. I was Frank and used exaggerated movement in order to create an abstract and stylised character using nothing but movement and sounds. After the tension had been built to cause a climax I as Frank had realised that Alan was present in the Cinema and used the short, sudden sound of my foot banging at which point everyone stopped Alan's face drop almost exactly the same as Franks showing that we were both is sudden shock and embarrassment to be seen by one and other watching this Lurid screening.