Scene 11

• [The atmosphere of the kitchen is now the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night]
• 'Luck is believing you're lucky'
• Darwinian tragedy

  'I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley'

  'Life has got to go on. No matter happens.' -E
• [Tragic radiance]
• 'I'm anxious to get out of here - this place is a trap!' -B
• 'It's Della Robbia blue' - connotations with virginity and Madonna
• [The unmistakable aura of the state institution with its cynical detachment]
• Structural parallel

  'Please don't get up. I'm only passing through.'
• Plastic Theatre

  [The Varsouviana is filtered into weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle]

  [The echo sounds in threatening whispers]
• 'You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles' -S
• [Seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the lightbulb, and extends it towards her. She cries out as if the lantern was herself]
• Repetition of 'What have I done to my sister?'
• 'You done the right thing, the only thing you could do' -E
• 'I'll kill you! [He lunges and strikes at Stanley]

  [Mitch collapses at the table sobbing] - Defeat in kinesics
• 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'
• Baby is [wrapped in a pale blue blanket]
• [His fingers find the opening of her blouse]
• [Luxurious sobbing and the sensual murmur fade away under the swelling music of the 'blue piano' and muted trumpet]
• 'This game is seven-card stud' -Steve