MÓNICA PANADERO
SAYAS
Teatro Inglés
Siglos XIX y XX
Grupo B
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ANGER
(Play in three acts)
AUTHOR:
John Osborne
PUBLISHING:
Faber and Faber
AGE
AND PLACE OF PUBLICATION: 1957,
DRAMATIS
PERSONAE:
Jimmy
Poter: he is young, high,
he's 25 years old more or
less and a medium-low social class. He is Alison's husband who
treats her very badly psychologically because it does not matter
anything her. His character is
amazing because it has
sudden changes of humour, the same he is tender that cruel,
sincere, cheer, proud and for that reason it does not have many
friends
Alison
Poter: she is young, high, thin and
brown, about 25
years old also. She is the
Jimmy's wife and she always does
what he says to her.
Cliff
Lewis: he is Jimmy's friend
and he has his same age.
He is low and brown. He
takes well with Alison and it lives
with them in the attic. He is
affectionate, considerate and
good person
Coronel
Redfern: he is Alison's
father. He is a old man
who visits his daughter who at the end of history is going away
with him to live.
Helena
Chartes:
is Alison's friend who hates to Jimmy but at the end
she gets off with him
PLOT:
The
play begins in the attic of the house where Jimmy and
Cliff are sitting down and Alison ironing. The living
together is impossible by the difficult and hard character of
Jimmy. A day the Alison's
friend, Helena, calls to the
Alison's father and the father tells him as his son-in-law treats
his daughter, then decides to visit her and to take her to live
with her family, Alison accepts and she is going away to live
with the family and pregnant on Jimmy.
While Alison is with
her family and aborts, Helena and Jimmy maintain a loving
relation . To the time Alison
decides to return next to her
husband, then
SPACE:
it is a unique space since it does not change in all the play.
The play is developed in the attic of Alison and Jimmy in the
city of
TIME:
The play is divided in three acts, the first act is a Sunday of
April. In the second act we
found two scenes, the first two
weeks after the first act and the second scene the following
afternoon. Finally the third
act happens several months
later
PERSONAL
OPINION: The play I
have liked much, which I
have not liked is the male chauvinist behaviour of Jimmy that he
has had with the women in general.
I admire the value of
Alison when she split up whit her husband although she was
pregnant although if I had been Alison had never returned with
him, because nobody has right to being dealed with that cruel
form