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Term 1 Week 6


 * Lesson 1:**
 * 1. Add to the list of black humour quotes we started in class. **

Also add examples of moments and workshops. Mrs Lyons Tracy: "i think everyone should see themselves doing it, and their friends should see it, too" || Tom Brown: "Is this, like, my last meal or something? a conjugal visit before I'm drawn and quartered?" Tracy: "to watch chunks of my own flesh get torn away...you could be a sadist" || Tracy: "seriously. you're only, like, i dunno, the third person i've ever..." || Tom Brown: "no, I got it, sort of the 'rudolph' effect. At least I can guide your sleigh tonight..." "you can guide my sleigh any night".... "Shall I check the mens room?" Tracy: "make love in the bathroom stall...who cares? ||
 * Taboo || Pain || Loss || Controversy ||
 * Tom Brown: "sure it wasn't the bathroom door? that's the usual excuse..." "for who?" "abused women...".

2. **View the La Bute interview and comment on how he sees film different to stage.**

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=Answers:= Tracy: He doesn't really see the film as being any different to the stage production. The differences that he does comment on is greater emotion the actors use but the main point was that there had to be, and could be, slight changes made to the script so it could be transformed from stage to screen.


 * Lesson 2:**
 * Homework Questions**

What did you discover about the characters from the post-scene improv?
 * Question 1: **

Tracy: The character of Evelyn is one who needs to have some sort of power over others, her frustration after the living room scene is mostly about her assuring herself of the power she has over Adam. Yes, don't forget the subtext here: he is her thesis. Adam let Evelyn vent her feelings while trying to console her, he feels the need to maintain the peace between people, new friend vs old friends should strike a chord with the audience as Evelyn shouts he tries to justify his reasons for what he did but is not let a word in by Evelyn.
 * Answers:**

Josephine: The post-scene improvisation reassured my opinion of Evelyn, that she is an intellectual snob that needs everything to be her way, but it made me view Adam in a different way. Though he is wrapped around Evelyn's finger, he still has an opinion and attemps to let this opinion be shown. yes. he doesn't just go with her downstairs he stands up to her. I think that Adam is a generally soft and shy person and he always tries to keep peace. His pushover personality is susceptible to Evelyn's dominant personality, it is not just the sexual dominance that he succumbs to. Does this show of resolve change the audience's opinion too... it it a precursor of his behaviour at the end?

Megan: the post-scene revelation was that Evelyn was very manipulative and demanding of Adam. In assuring herself of her own snobishness she speaks down to Adam and assurts her power over him. Unaware of this The question really is 'Is he aware but feels this is the price to be paid? , Adam tries to comfort her and lets her walk all over him. Without knowing it, he is complying to want Evelyn wants and yet he doesn't care as he only wants to console her in her discomfort. is there any empathy or just sympathy?

Emma: In our group we had a wonderful Freudian slip, instead of Tracy saying "aren't you my boyfriend?" she said girlfriend. I think this showed we all understood that Adam was being emasculated and that Evelyn had the power in the scene. The post scene for me showed that Evelyn knew exactly how to manipulate Adam so he would agree, she was more reassured, where as Adam was desperate to make up to Evelyn now his friends weren't watching him be so weak.

Give 3 quotes from the living room scene which would be comic to an audience who understand the complexity of intellectual snobbery.
 * Question 2:**

Tracy; "pornography is meant to titillate, to excite you." / "i don't think a person's ... can be a manifesto. uh-uh. you can write manifesto on your thing, but your thing can't be one." / "an educated guess..."
 * Answers:**

Josephine: "Especially for a town like this..." "Jesus, you're really the obnoxious type, you know that!?" (irony) "A kind of manifesto if you will..."

Megan: "I'm an artist". "all i'm saying is that,, in my //opinion// it wasn't pronography, it was a statement". "it's a little college town in the middle of nowhere... t chose me actually. //full// scholarship." Page 34. Italics or other indicators of how a line should be said is rare in this script. There are indications such as 'laughing' 'smiling' 'they chuckle' but this in a very definate signal from the playwright.

Emma: "I understand the impulse" "wow the postgraduate mind at work" "Especially in a town like this" "a kind of manifesto if you will" "my opinion"- its repeated quite a few times by Evelyn "An e//ducated// guess"

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