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The document provides an overview of what needs to be prepared to analyze the play "The Shoe-Horn Sonata". It summarizes the characters of Bridie and Sheila who contrast differing perspectives on dealing with past wartime experiences. Rick represents how women were controlled during the war and directs the women's interview, focusing the story on their experiences. Themes addressed in the play include the impact of war, reconciliation, truth, power relationships, heroism, courage, and endurance. Dramatic techniques used in the play include symbolism with objects like a lamb chop, caramel, and shoehorn. Projected images and music are also used to provide context and help the women escape their camp experiences. Humor and dialogue

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The document provides an overview of what needs to be prepared to analyze the play "The Shoe-Horn Sonata". It summarizes the characters of Bridie and Sheila who contrast differing perspectives on dealing with past wartime experiences. Rick represents how women were controlled during the war and directs the women's interview, focusing the story on their experiences. Themes addressed in the play include the impact of war, reconciliation, truth, power relationships, heroism, courage, and endurance. Dramatic techniques used in the play include symbolism with objects like a lamb chop, caramel, and shoehorn. Projected images and music are also used to provide context and help the women escape their camp experiences. Humor and dialogue

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The Shoe-Horn Sonata

What you need to prepare-


1. Characterisation/Characters
2. Themes and Issues
3. Dramatic Techniques

Characters
Bridie and Sheila are contrasted to represent differing perspectives

- Emotionally in dealing with past experiences- Bridie more comfortable


about it than Sheila
- Talk about tension from wartime to present
- Rick- His purpose

1. Represents how women were controlled by unseen forces


during the war. He directs the interview
2. Dramatic device in which women recount their experiences
3. he is unseen on stage focus on women, this is their time to
have their war experiences in the spotlight

Young vs. old


Strength of friendship

Themes and Issues


Impact of war in individuals brutality
Concept of reconciliation
Truth
Power relationships
Heroism
Courage
Endurance

Dramatic techniques
Symbolism
- Lamb chop
- Caramel
- Shoehorn (make connection to the title)

Grave digging

Used to save Metronome Used to save


Sheilas life Bridies life
(in the water)

Provide-
1. Connection with outside world
2. means of surviving the brutality of the ordeals
Projected images
Create sense of reality
Provide context for the story
Evidence of reality
Play with audience emotions

Music
Helps to give time frame for the story
Within the story, it is used to help women escape from the camp

Humour and dialogue


A means of dealing with painful memories
Used to survive camp

MAKE SURE YOU DEFINE MISTOS PURPOSE OF THE PLAY

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