1. In chapter 17 of David Ball’s Backwards and Forwards he discusses the Unique Factor and how this is what the play revolves around. I agree that plays are rarely about normal day to day lives of normal people, if they were who would want to see them. I personally would not want to go see a two or three hour play about a day in the life of an average person. In saying all this brings up the point that in every play there is one unique person or event that the entire play is at least somewhat centered around. Ball also points out that this factor is not always blatantly apparent in the beginning of each show but in some they are obvious from early on. For example take Crimes of the Heart, we learn fairly early that one of the sisters has shot
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As far as supporting characters go I personally loved the character of Chick, especially our class casting of the character. Chick adds so much insight into the sisters and is one way I feel Beth Henley uses to get across much of her exposition. Chick is one of those stereotypical southern gossiping women who can never let anyone forget anything they have ever done. This fact allows Henley to tell the audience much of the girls past without it appearing as an overload of boring exposition. Chick’s obvious dislike for the girls comes across in a very comical way with the transparent way she looks down on them as being less than she is. What to me is also obvious about Chick is that she is jealous of the girls’ relationship and treatment by their Granddaddy. This closeness is to be expected though I feel like seeing as how upon the death of their mother Granddaddy took them in and basically became their parent, but all Chick sees is that he likes them more than her. The end scene with Chick and Lenny is by far my favorite scene that Chick is in, it shows a growing moment for Lenny. She finally decides to stand up for herself and give Chick a little piece of her mind. Without this character I don’t believe we would have been able to see Lenny make that growth and that added depth of character makes the entire play, in my opinion, more
As far as supporting characters go I personally loved the character of Chick, especially our class casting of the character. Chick adds so much insight into the sisters and is one way I feel Beth Henley uses to get across much of her exposition. Chick is one of those stereotypical southern gossiping women who can never let anyone forget anything they have ever done. This fact allows Henley to tell the audience much of the girls past without it appearing as an overload of boring exposition. Chick’s obvious dislike for the girls comes across in a very comical way with the transparent way she looks down on them as being less than she is. What to me is also obvious about Chick is that she is jealous of the girls’ relationship and treatment by their Granddaddy. This closeness is to be expected though I feel like seeing as how upon the death of their mother Granddaddy took them in and basically became their parent, but all Chick sees is that he likes them more than her. The end scene with Chick and Lenny is by far my favorite scene that Chick is in, it shows a growing moment for Lenny. She finally decides to stand up for herself and give Chick a little piece of her mind. Without this character I don’t believe we would have been able to see Lenny make that growth and that added depth of character makes the entire play, in my opinion, more