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14 OVERALL DIRECTORIAL INTERPRETATION AND DRAMATIC COMMENTARY • She seeks reassurance. • She is not in the same league as Joe intellectually. She reverts to attacking Joe’s class as a way of balancing the scales. • As in Episode One, Mag goes through the gamut of emotions. In this episode she is huffy, resentful, happy, doubtful, angry, spiteful, loving, romantic, positive, carefree and elated! • At times she feels isolated from Joe. Towards the end of the Episode we learn of her isolation from her school mates. • Mag ends the Episode in a romantic mood. ‘The flat’ll be lovely and cosy at night.’ • In our last glimpse of Mag we see her joie de vivre. Why might Episode Two be important in your production of the play? • How does this Episode develop your overall directorial interpretation? • How will you balance the comedy with the pathos of the play? • How will you point up the irony of the play? • What does this Episode tell us about Friel’s attitude to love? How is this shown in Mag and Joe’s exchanges? • What development in his character would you want to show in the acting of Joe? How will you show his internal conflict? (His anger and frustration, his love for Mag, his ambivalent attitude towards his father, the love and respect he has for his mother, his hopes for the future, his love of learning, his lack of experience, his vulnerability?) • Joe has three monologues in this Episode. How will you get the actor to deliver these to maintain the audience’s interest and to enable them to gain an insight into the internal conflict mentioned above? • What developments in her character would you want to show in the acting of Mag? How will you show her increasing sense of isolation? Her vulnerability? Her dependency on Joe? Her hopes for a successful, married family life? • How will you point up the division between Mag and Joe? DRAMA
OVERALL DIRECTORIAL INTERPRETATION AND DRAMATIC COMMENTARY • As a director how will you build and realise the dramatic tension in this Episode? • How do you want the audience to feel at the end of this Episode? Notes DRAMA 15
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