March 6, 2017 - March 10, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Monday, March 6th:

Watched A Streetcar Named Desire

Discussion: death versus life - Thanatos versus Eros

Life = sex, passion, art

Belle Reve means beautiful dream 

Belle Reve was shattered and destroyed by death

Blanche Dubois tried to escape death and find life through desire 

The streetcar which took Blanche  to Stella's apartment in the French Quarter in New Orleans  was called "Desire." 

Stanley giving Blanche a check for bus fare back to Auriol, Mississippi, was a death warrant - only death and humiliation awaited her there.

The doctor checking Blanche's eyes by lifting her eye lids was a hint that she might be subjected to a pre-frontal lobotomy, which was the same fate as Rose, Tennessee William's sister, suffered. Tennessee wrote The Glass Menagerie, which was about his unhappy life with his mother and his fragile sister, Rose, whose character's name was Laura.

Tuesday, March 7th: 
Shortened day
Read Desire, Desire, Desire, Christopher Durang's parody of A Streetcar Named Desire

Wednesday, March 8th: 
Finished reading  Desire, Desire, Desire
Discussion  
Began watching The Glass Menagerie 
 
Thursday, March 9th: 

Watch The Glass  Menagerie; stopped at 1:38

 Friday, March 10th: 
Watch The Glass Menagerie
Discussion of the play