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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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Heat Lightning : a play by Robert F. Carroll
Hear Lightning is a play by Robert F. Carroll.
Characters are:
1: Girl
2: First Man
3: Second Man
Setting:
The interior of a bus station.
I need help in order to understand this play throughly. Therefore, I will write down the entire play step by step. I will ask simple questions referring to the passage(s) which I will quote.
Heat Lightning
Scene:
The drab interior of a bus station along a deserted highway somewhere in the midwest. There are two long benches stage Right1, back to back; one faces the audience and one faces the rear wall. A door up Center2 leads out onto3 the road. It has a single glass pane in the top and the bottom is wooden. Two doors, up Left4 and down Left5. Up Left door reads Men; down Left door reads ''Women.''6 The room is lighted by an overhanging light with a dull green shade. A large bus schedule on the wall up Right Center7. A window is up8 Right of Center and another at Right.
Questions:
What does Heat Lightning mean?
1: What does stage Right mean and why is the first letter of Right capital?
2: What does up Center mean and why is the first letter of Center capital?
3: What does onto mean?
4: What do up Left and down Left?
5: What does up Right Center mean and why are the first letters of Right and Center capital?
6: I think period shouldn't be included in inverted commas. But I think in American English period is included in inverted commas. Right?
7: What does up Right Center mean and why are the first letters of Right and Center capital?
8: What does up mean?
Characters are:
1: Girl
2: First Man
3: Second Man
Setting:
The interior of a bus station.
I need help in order to understand this play throughly. Therefore, I will write down the entire play step by step. I will ask simple questions referring to the passage(s) which I will quote.
Heat Lightning
Scene:
The drab interior of a bus station along a deserted highway somewhere in the midwest. There are two long benches stage Right1, back to back; one faces the audience and one faces the rear wall. A door up Center2 leads out onto3 the road. It has a single glass pane in the top and the bottom is wooden. Two doors, up Left4 and down Left5. Up Left door reads Men; down Left door reads ''Women.''6 The room is lighted by an overhanging light with a dull green shade. A large bus schedule on the wall up Right Center7. A window is up8 Right of Center and another at Right.
Questions:
What does Heat Lightning mean?
1: What does stage Right mean and why is the first letter of Right capital?
2: What does up Center mean and why is the first letter of Center capital?
3: What does onto mean?
4: What do up Left and down Left?
5: What does up Right Center mean and why are the first letters of Right and Center capital?
6: I think period shouldn't be included in inverted commas. But I think in American English period is included in inverted commas. Right?
7: What does up Right Center mean and why are the first letters of Right and Center capital?
8: What does up mean?
Top answer
com/1cckw 3 : What does onto mean? In this case, the information is that a door in the backset is putatively leading out onto a street outside the set.
- com/1cckw 3 : What does onto mean?
- In this case, the information is that a door in the backset is putatively leading out onto a street outside the set.
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This will give you clear information on stage directions : check under the heading "Areas" http://snipurl.com/1cckw
3: What does onto mean? In this case, the information is that a door in the backset is putatively leading out onto a street outside the
3: What does onto mean? In this case, the information is that a door in the backset is putatively leading out onto a street outside the
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Did you check out the reference ?
Here's another, re Heat Lightning : http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/274/
Carroll is using the term metaphorically
Here's another, re Heat Lightning : http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/274/
Carroll is using the term metaphorically
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Please check this link:
http://chdramaworkshop.homestead.com/Directions.html
Please check Question No.1 at the start of this thread. There is no specific stage direction called Right. So, what does ''there are two lo
http://chdramaworkshop.homestead.com/Directions.html
Please check Question No.1 at the start of this thread. There is no specific stage direction called Right. So, what does ''there are two lo
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I think you have to use your reasoning powers here: Right of Center must be to the right of the centre of the stage. Something to the right must be to the right of the stage.
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Please check my Question No. 6.
I assume that you have read the play. In what way Carroll is using the term Heat Lightning as a metaphor.
I assume that you have read the play. In what way Carroll is using the term Heat Lightning as a metaphor.
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Ok ..did you find any resource to answer your questions..share it with me too, pls.
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Heat Lightning is used metaphorically as it shows the intense emotions of the play,suspence and mystery.
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