Streetcar Named Desire Play Analysis
Sound Designer:
State the interpretation and approach of your director. Do you personally agree, or disagree, with the interpretation and approach of your director? Why?
The sound designer has an extreme importance in the play. The sound designer need to study techniques, theories and music to have a great understand to be able to introduce sounds and music in the play in order to show emotions and feelings. According to the President of the American Association of the Community Theatre (AACT), sounds can establish the time of day, season and weather, locate the action in a specific place, create mood and changes in mood, stimulate audience expectations of what is to come, provide information about the characters, build transitions between scenes, offer shortcuts that rapidly advance the plot or recall past events. (Walker, 2014)
The sound designer needs to go beyond the basic studies in this subject; it is necessary to actively participate with the director in the …show more content…
The play happens during the day and during the night, for example it was at night that Stanley was playing poker with the guys and drinking, and it was during the day that Blanche went to the apartment to look for Stella after she got slapped the night before.
- Are there any sounds mentioned in the dialogue? Yes, on the scene three the dialogue says: "She turns the knobs on the radio and it begins to play "Wien, Wien, nur du allein." Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear".
- Based on the location, what environmental sounds might you add to the play? I would add car noise because they live in a poor neighborhood, maybe some dogs barking, and some people talking loud on the street.
- Describe the way in which you might use a certain type of music for dramatic emphasis in two scenes of the
State the interpretation and approach of your director. Do you personally agree, or disagree, with the interpretation and approach of your director? Why?
The sound designer has an extreme importance in the play. The sound designer need to study techniques, theories and music to have a great understand to be able to introduce sounds and music in the play in order to show emotions and feelings. According to the President of the American Association of the Community Theatre (AACT), sounds can establish the time of day, season and weather, locate the action in a specific place, create mood and changes in mood, stimulate audience expectations of what is to come, provide information about the characters, build transitions between scenes, offer shortcuts that rapidly advance the plot or recall past events. (Walker, 2014)
The sound designer needs to go beyond the basic studies in this subject; it is necessary to actively participate with the director in the …show more content…
The play happens during the day and during the night, for example it was at night that Stanley was playing poker with the guys and drinking, and it was during the day that Blanche went to the apartment to look for Stella after she got slapped the night before.
- Are there any sounds mentioned in the dialogue? Yes, on the scene three the dialogue says: "She turns the knobs on the radio and it begins to play "Wien, Wien, nur du allein." Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear".
- Based on the location, what environmental sounds might you add to the play? I would add car noise because they live in a poor neighborhood, maybe some dogs barking, and some people talking loud on the street.
- Describe the way in which you might use a certain type of music for dramatic emphasis in two scenes of the