Characters:
Helen Potts | 60 sheltered mother |
Hal Carter | Disrupts the norm |
Milie Owens | 16, young, quirky |
Bomber | Newsboy |
Madge Owens | 18, Hal and Madge have a spark |
Rosemary Sydney | |
Flo Owens | |
Alan Seymor | |
Irma Kronkite |
Time: | Labor Day and day after |
Setting: | Kansas |
Mode: | Realism |
Form: | Drama |
Themes: - American: all American picnic, care about all caharacters, no single plot line/more character development, small town nowhere, sense of belonging |
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Quotes:
Alan | I honestly never believed that a girl like you could care for me |
Flo | Who fed whiskey to my Millie? |
Mrs. Potts | I think we plan picnics just to give ourselves an excuse- to let something thrilling happen |
Hal | There’s just no place in the world for a guy like me |
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Country mid-western version of Street scene, “unstructured”?, Music Man |
Playwright:
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Other Work:
1947 | Farther Off From Heaven |
1949? | Come Back, Little Sheeba- Tony awards in 1950 |
1951 | Splendor in the Grass- screenplay, won Oscar and Academy Award (Best Writing, Story and Screenplay- Written Directly for the Screen) |
1952 | Come Back Little Sheeba- screenplay, won Oscar and Golden Globe |
1953 | Glory in the Flower |
1955 | Bus Stop |
1957 | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs |
1959 | A Loss of Roses |
1962 | The Boy in the Basement |
1963 | The Stripper |
1966 | Where’s Daddy? |
1970 | Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff- novel |
1972 | The Last Pad |
1975 | Summer Brave |
Off the Main Road | |
The Killing | |
All Fall Down- screenplay | |
Natural Affection |
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