Characters:
Penelope Sycamore | Has been writing plays for the past 8 years because a typewriter was delivered by accident |
Mr/Mrs. Kirby | Tony’s parents who are more normal than the Sycamores but crazy in their own way |
Essie Charmichael | The Sycamore’s eldest daughter who loves to dance, wears ballet slippers the entire play |
Paul Sycamore | Alice’s father, makes fire crackers |
Mr. DePinna | Helps in the fire cracker making |
Ed Carmichael | Plays the saxophone throughout the play |
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Martin Vanderhof | |
Alice Sycamore | Seemed to have escaped the tinge of mild insanity that pervades the rest of them |
Time: | 1936 |
Setting: | New York City, Martin Venderhof’s home |
Mode: | Realism |
Form: | Comedy |
Themes: - Modern- dysfunctional family, icons of Americanism, character relationships over plot; naturalism, impressionism - American- icons: firecrackers, fourth of July, income tax, Wall Street, character driven, belonging - Belonging- Alice complains that she belongs to her family and doesn’t want to leave the quirkiness but then in the end complains that she doesn’t want to be a part of their quirkiness |
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Quotes:
Grandpa | Oh, the world’s not so crazy, Kolenkhov. It’s the people in it. Life’s pretty simple if you just relax… Life is kind of beautiful if you let it come to you. But the trouble is, people forget that |
Alice | I love them deeply. Some people could break away, but I couldn’t. I know they do rather strange things… But they’re gay and they’re fun… I don’t know… There’s a kind of nobility about them |
Kolenkhov | Art is only achieved through perspiration |
Grandpa | Alice you’re in love with this boy, and you’re not marrying him because we’re the kind of people we are |
Alice | Oh I wish I lived in a family that didn’t always forget everything. That-that behaved the way other people’s families do… Why can’t we be like other people? |
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Entire family is sarcastic, complete dysfunctional family meets other dysfunctional family |
Playwright:
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Other Work:
1930 | H & K: Once in a Lifetime- Broadway debut | 1918 | K: Someone in the House- Broadway debut |
1932 | H: Face the Music | 1922 | K: Merton of the Movies |
1933 | H: As Thousands Cheer | 1924 | K: Beggar on Horseback |
1934 | H & K: Merrily We Roll Along | 1925 | K: The Butter and the Egg Man (only play Kaufman wrote alone) |
1937 | H & K: I’d Rather Be Right | 1929 | K: June Moon |
1939 | H & K: The Man Who Came to Dinner | 1927 | K: The Royal Family |
1940 | H & K: George Washington Slept Here (their last play together) | 1930 | K & H: Once in a Lifetime |
1941 | H: Lady in the Dark | 1934 | K: Of Thee I Sing- Pulitzer Prize |
1943 | H: Winged Victory | 1935 | K & H: Merrily We Roll Along |
1944 | H: Dear Ruth | 1939 | K: First Lady |
1944 | H: Winged Victory- screenplay | 1937 | K & H: The Man Who Came to Dinner |
1946 | H: Christopher Blake | 1940 | K & H: I’d Rather Be Right |
1947 | H: The Gentleman’s Agreement- screenplay, Oscar nomination | 1940 | K & H: George Washington Slept Here (their last play together) |
1948 | H: Light Up the Sky | K: Merton of the Movies | |
1952 | H: Hans Christian Anderson- screenplay | K: Dulcy | |
1954 | H: A Star is Born- screenplay | K: Beggar on Horseback | |
1959 | H: Act One- an autobiography | K: June Moon | |
H & K: Once in A Lifetime | H & K: Once in A Lifetime |
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