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OVERALL DIRECTORIAL INTERPRETATION AND DRAMATIC COMMENTARY
Why would this Extract be important in your production of
the play?
• How does this key Extract develop your overall directorial
interpretation?
• As a director how do you feel Cissy should be portrayed? Is she a
complex character or a caricature? How will she make her entrance?
How will you want the audience to feel towards her? How will all
these aspects affect the acting of this character?
• How will you establish Cissy’s status in this Extract?
• Who is made to feel an outsider? Why? How will you show this?
• How will you build the tension between Cissy and Andy?
• How will you show Hannah’s frustration in this Extract?
• As a director, how do you want Andy and Hannah to relate to each
other in this Extract?
• How will you handle the passionate embrace between Andy and
Hannah this time? What do you want the audience to feel by the end
of this sequence?
• As a director how do you feel Mrs Wilson should be portrayed? Is she
a complex character or a caricature? How will you want the audience
to feel towards her? How will these aspects affect the acting of this
character?
• What kind of relationship does Hannah have with her mother? How
will you get your actors to communicate this relationship to the
audience?
• What kind of relationship does Andy have with Mrs Wilson? How will
you get your actor to communicate this?
• What kind of atmosphere will you create in Mrs Wilson’s bedroom?
How will you achieve this?
• How will you show the dominance and status of the different
characters?
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