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16 OVERALL DIRECTORIAL INTERPRETATION AND DRAMATIC COMMENTARY DRAMA
OVERALL DIRECTORIAL INTERPRETATION AND DRAMATIC COMMENTARY Losers EXTRACT ONE (pages 51-60) Why would this Extract be important in any production of the play? Provides context of the second half of <strong>Lovers</strong> and gives background to the action/storyline • We note the period is still 1967. Irish society expected the younger generation to look after the elderly. It was quite common for older relatives to be living with younger members of their family. • The Catholic Church’s views on the sanctity of the family would have been ingrained into the conscience of all Catholics. • Sex before marriage was regarded as a sin. • Andy and Hannah live in the same insular, repressive, rural, Irish Catholic community as Joe and Mag. • In 1960s Ireland the younger generation wanted to break free from the restrictive traditions and the rigid moral codes of past generations. They found it difficult to break free, however. What could they replace the old order with? The Catholic Church exerted such a powerful influence, an influence which permeated every area of their lives from the cradle to the grave. There were rituals and protocols in abundance. Traditions from the past were strictly respected by the older generation. • The title of this half of the play, Losers, immediately engages our attention and we begin to make direct comparisons with Mag and Joe’s predicament in Winners. We question the irony of both titles. What is Friel saying about love and marriage? What is he saying about these two sets of lovers in particular? What is he saying about the kind of community that demands and enforces such high moral expectations? In Winners we clearly see the effect this repressive community has on Mag and Joe. Right at the start of Losers we learn that Andy and Hannah have also suffered from living in a repressive environment. • Andy’s narration is used to take us backwards in time. Most of the story happens in the past. DRAMA 17
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