ASND: scene summaries (bullet points)

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Sc1

  • Blanche visits Stella and Stanley

  • Characters get acquainted w each other

  • Blanche talks about Belle Reve

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Sc2

  • Stanley learns from Stella that Belle Reve is lost and is sceptical

  • Brings up Napoleonic Code

  • Stanley goes through Blanche's belongings, revealing the 'expensive' things she owns

  • Blanche fishes for compliments when they are alone - Stanley isn't responsive

  • Stella takes Blanche out while Stanley and his friends drink and play poker

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Sc3

  • Poker night

  • Mitch says he has to leave early to take care of his sick mother, goes to the bathroom.

  • Stella and B come back, B meets Mitch

  • Blanche flirts w Mitch and lies about her age

  • B turns on radio again, Stanley goes berserk and hits Stella

  • Men put Stanley into showers

  • Stella goes up to Eunice, Stanley yells up to her distraught

  • Mitch comforts Blanche

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Sc4

  • Blanche finds Stella is fine, she isn't happy about this.

  • Finds out Stella is thrilled by Stanley's violence/animalistic nature

  • Blanche insults Stanley as he listens outside. Stella defends him

  • Stanley walks in and hugs Stella

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Sc5

  • Blanche is writing a letter to Shep Huntleigh, calling herself a liar

  • Steve and Eunice are fighting upstairs

  • Blanche brings up astrology, asking if he's an Aries (a ram), finds out he's actually a Capricorn (goat) (one of Dionysus' favourite incarnations)

  • Blanche is a Virgo (Stanley laughs)

  • Stanley mentions her past at the Flamingo to Blanche (she reacts frightenedly)

  • Blanche is left alone and the Young Man comes selling magazines, she aggressively flirts with him and kisses him

  • Mitch arrives w flowers

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Sc6

  • Blanche and Mitch arrive back to the house, both having not had a great time.

  • Blanche points out the Pleiades

  • They go inside and talk about alpaca coat and Blanche speaks French, really playing up the Southern Belle

  • Mitch talks about his sick mother then Blanche talks about her past w Allan

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Sc7

  • It's B's birthday

  • Stanley tells Stella everything he found out about Blanche (including being fired) while she sings about Paper Moon from the bathtub.

  • Stanley tells Stella not to expect Mitch because he's told him too.

  • Stanley tells Stella how he's bought B a ticket back to Laurel.

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Sc8

  • It's B's birthday dinner, very tense and awkward. B tells a joke story about a parrot being hushed by covering it's cage.

  • Stella sides w Blanche and Stanley explodes over being called a Polack, quotes Huey Long and smashes plates.

  • Blanche realises something is up about Mitch because they're acting off and tries to call him.

  • Stanley talks about Poland and American dream

  • Stanley gives her the ticket back to Laurel and she starts physically gagging

  • Stella tells him off a bit, he talks about how good it was when it was just them two, "I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it"

  • Stella goes into labour

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Sc9

  • Late at night Mitch comes over

  • Blanche tries to flirt with him but he ignores her

  • Blanche talks about hearing the Varsouviana until the gunshot stops it - Mitch thinks she's crazy.

  • Mitch rips the paper-shade off the lamp and Blanche talks about how she doesn't want realism, but magic.

  • Mitch is upset about how much she lied to him, Blanche talks about the 17y.o boy at school.

  • Mexican woman w "Flores para los muertos" (flowers for the dead)

  • Blanche spirals talking about half nonsense

  • Mitch holds her and wants to rape her, she tells him to marry her then and he says she's "not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother"

  • Blanche threatens to scream and he leaves

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Sc10

  • Stanley comes home slightly drunk, Stella still at hospital

  • Blanche is dressed up in a gown and tiara and talks about how she's been invited on a cruise by Shep Huntleigh, Stanley plays along w her.

  • Stanley puts on his wedding night pyjamas and opens a drink, "a geyser of foam shoots up" (ejaculative, foreshadows rape)

  • Blanche plays the sorrowful belle and tells Stanley about Mitch - he then calls her out on all her lying.

  • Stanley goes to the bathroom and Blanche phones for help, then Stanley comes out and advances on her.

  • Lots of plastic theatre - "approaching locomotive" "inhuman jungle voices rise up" "the hot trumpet and drums from the Four Deuces sound loudly"

  • Stanley overpowers her then rapes her.

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Sc11

  • The men are playing poker

  • Stanley briefly talks about American Dream

  • Eunice asks Stella about Blanche, she says they've arranged a place for to be taken away to in the country

  • Blanche talks about death from an unwashed grape and being thrown into the sea the colour of her first lover's eyes.

  • Matron and Doctor show up, Eunice says there is a gentleman for Blanche.

  • "The 'Varsouviana' is filtered into weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle'"

  • Stanley rips off the paper lantern and offers it to B

  • Stella is in anguish at her decision

  • Mitch yells at Stanley, tries to punch him before sitting down and crying.

  • The doctor comes in and takes her away - "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."