by Hannah Scott 6 years ago
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Motormouth and Suckface; a review
by Hannah Scott 6 years ago
290
Is there a word for this? Not style or theme?
"Hilary produces a large balloon painted to look like the earth"
"Hilary pops balloon"
The play ends in the alternate dimension
Zach's small monologue expresses his own fears of loneliness using a vast range of imagery; "my legs are spring loaded and I leap like a cricket into the air." Zach voices the fear of being meaningless in an infinite world that commonly arises in adolescence. "Screaming as if my life depended on the whole world hearing."
Zach and Sarah in intimate moment of conversation. Sarah pours heart into confession of love Zach addresses audience to confide and complain. The aside actually builds tension so the dialogue can move back and forth without Zach having to speak to her. Audience becomes informed on relationship and Zach's hesitation but is also an act of betrayal.
School cast in discussion with Blasko's introduction dispersed between on diving board. Whilst Blasko talks rest of cast in "weird time shift slo mo movement"
Time: Several references to pop culture such as Pink Floyd, The Beatles and Kylie Minogue important for context. Scattered throughout play mentions of the drought and its effect.
Place: Act 1 Scene 13: Blasko observes Wesley College and Mandeville Hall
"She'll get over it." Every time a character dies to become a zombie the immediate response is that it's not a worry because they won't stay dead for long. It is well documented that the teenage brain is prone to risk taking and thrill chasing because its understanding of its own mortality is corrupted.
Tank's Leukemia
Act 1 Scene 18
Stereotypical high school Queen Bees Frienship
Unrequited love and rejection
Belonging
Parents use subtext to convey meaning whilst Blasko is very literal
Popular
In Motormouth and Suckface's relationship suckface is desperate to be sexually desired and to be considered attractive but Motormouth needs to trust and to be told he is loved. Act 1 Scene 2: Suckface's response to "I love you" is "Don't forget to bring the condoms and read the instructions manual."
The nicknames work as protective facades because the use of real names exposes vulnerability.
The bizarre nicknames Motormouth and Suckface are an example of language used to convey the attitudes of the characters and how they embrace their own oddities but also explore the fear both characters have of trusting the other.
Sarah's soliloquy "The ocean of forever upon where the galleon of immortality floats." Plea for meaning and worth
Caricature so exaggerated that becomes stereotypical and not 3 dimensional. Crowley describes as 'music-like motifs'
Act 1 Scene 4: "I'm the only one at this school who wears a nose stud- dah."
Act 1 Scene 15: This is like the most boring party evah!"
Act 1 scene 4: "Question- why a rose bush"
Illustrative teenage attitude, shock effect, Are there characters who don't swear?
