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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 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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