TGM Essay Outline
Outline " TGM Essay "
Written Coursework:
A- Literary Analisis
B- Experience/ Performance
C- Language
Play introduction: The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 as his second biggest success, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. His dream job is to be a poet who travels around the world and try new thing and new perspectives, but in the real world, he toils in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Mr Wingfield, Tom and Laura’s father, ran off years ago and, except for one postcard, has not been heard fr.om since. The major problem in the family is the conflict between Tom and his mother Amanda that produces consequences that output can influence someone's feelings. Tom decided to leave his family like his dad did. Years later, though he travels far, he finds that he is unable to leave behind guilty memories of Laura.
Scene Introduction: The scene that I chose started with a conflict between Tom and his mother Amanda, conflict based on them arguing about freedom that Tom must have but Amanda doesn't let him have it and a book by D. H. Lawrence that she took back to the library because she refuses to have such a "hideous book in her house". Tom reminds her that he pays the rent on the house. Tom then prepares to leave to go to the movies. Amanda screams at him that he can't stay out late at night and still do a good day's work. Tom reminds her how much he hates his job and being there. When Amanda accuses Tom of doing something he is ashamed of every night and accuses him of lying about going to the movies every night, Tom becomes infuriated and tells his mother a fantastic tale and ends by calling her an "ugly — babbling — witch." the scene Tom tries to get his coat on and in his rapid struggle to leave, he throws his coat against the wall and shatters some of Laura's glass menagerie, Amanda aggressive tells him that she won’t talk to him until he apologises. The scenes end on Tom coming back to the house after a long night and having a conversation with his sister Laura.
Character introduction and background: Laura's and Tom's mother. She really cares about her kids and want them to have financial stability by making her son Tom work in a warehouse and something that he is not passioned about, and trying to the fined man of the colours for Laura who is old enough to get married.
Amanda lives in the world where she wants financial stability as well as everything to be set for her. The main problem that Amanda refuses to acknowledge that Laura is crippled and instead refers to her injury as only a slight physical defect. She doesn’t want to accept the fact that Laura is different and she can not stand the outside world and it’s hard for her to communicate with people.
She refuses to accept the fact that Tom has a different personality from her and that he acts more like his father, and someday he will leave in search of adventures.
Team performance: During this project, me and my teammates spend a lot of time reviewing the scene and adding new material to what we already had. During the rehearsals, we were practising our lines as the group as well as an individual. From the beginning of the project, I knew this will take a lot of time to memorize as well as practise facial expressions and body movements. In my opinion, the final performance did not reflect on my progress, because of the poor performance that I presented. The final outcome would've been interesting to watch for the audience and to experience for me and my team but we did not produce the final piece the way we expected.
My performance reflection/ Experience: This project introduced me to that hard work that constantly requires changes in the script and getting confused with your lines, being nerves before, after, and during the performance. Another lesson that I've learned from my unfortunately unsuccessful performance is how hard it is to be on the stage and perform in front of the audience. It was really hard to show the audience that you’re a part of the character that you are playing and that you can manage to connect to the scene. After this experience of performing in front of my class that contains only ten people and struggling with doing that, I can not imagine how a proffecional actor can be so confident and calm where you’re constantly judged, critiqued, however, you want to classify and manage to perform at the top level; this example made me judge myself for the mistakes that I did during the performance, in fact, it showed me how desperate you must be to make a successful performance that will show the true work that you put in during the rehearsals.
Written Coursework:
A- Literary Analisis
B- Experience/ Performance
C- Language
Play introduction: The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 as his second biggest success, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. His dream job is to be a poet who travels around the world and try new thing and new perspectives, but in the real world, he toils in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Mr Wingfield, Tom and Laura’s father, ran off years ago and, except for one postcard, has not been heard fr.om since. The major problem in the family is the conflict between Tom and his mother Amanda that produces consequences that output can influence someone's feelings. Tom decided to leave his family like his dad did. Years later, though he travels far, he finds that he is unable to leave behind guilty memories of Laura.
Scene Introduction: The scene that I chose started with a conflict between Tom and his mother Amanda, conflict based on them arguing about freedom that Tom must have but Amanda doesn't let him have it and a book by D. H. Lawrence that she took back to the library because she refuses to have such a "hideous book in her house". Tom reminds her that he pays the rent on the house. Tom then prepares to leave to go to the movies. Amanda screams at him that he can't stay out late at night and still do a good day's work. Tom reminds her how much he hates his job and being there. When Amanda accuses Tom of doing something he is ashamed of every night and accuses him of lying about going to the movies every night, Tom becomes infuriated and tells his mother a fantastic tale and ends by calling her an "ugly — babbling — witch." the scene Tom tries to get his coat on and in his rapid struggle to leave, he throws his coat against the wall and shatters some of Laura's glass menagerie, Amanda aggressive tells him that she won’t talk to him until he apologises. The scenes end on Tom coming back to the house after a long night and having a conversation with his sister Laura.
Amanda lives in the world where she wants financial stability as well as everything to be set for her. The main problem that Amanda refuses to acknowledge that Laura is crippled and instead refers to her injury as only a slight physical defect. She doesn’t want to accept the fact that Laura is different and she can not stand the outside world and it’s hard for her to communicate with people.
She refuses to accept the fact that Tom has a different personality from her and that he acts more like his father, and someday he will leave in search of adventures.
Team performance: During this project, me and my teammates spend a lot of time reviewing the scene and adding new material to what we already had. During the rehearsals, we were practising our lines as the group as well as an individual. From the beginning of the project, I knew this will take a lot of time to memorize as well as practise facial expressions and body movements. In my opinion, the final performance did not reflect on my progress, because of the poor performance that I presented. The final outcome would've been interesting to watch for the audience and to experience for me and my team but we did not produce the final piece the way we expected.
My performance reflection/ Experience: This project introduced me to that hard work that constantly requires changes in the script and getting confused with your lines, being nerves before, after, and during the performance. Another lesson that I've learned from my unfortunately unsuccessful performance is how hard it is to be on the stage and perform in front of the audience. It was really hard to show the audience that you’re a part of the character that you are playing and that you can manage to connect to the scene. After this experience of performing in front of my class that contains only ten people and struggling with doing that, I can not imagine how a proffecional actor can be so confident and calm where you’re constantly judged, critiqued, however, you want to classify and manage to perform at the top level; this example made me judge myself for the mistakes that I did during the performance, in fact, it showed me how desperate you must be to make a successful performance that will show the true work that you put in during the rehearsals.
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