sound

• artificial sounds to enhance atmosphere/ heighten audience awareness characters psychological states
• Blue piano- the music from the 4 Deuces setting French Quater

  • heard by all characters= vibrant, joyful,working class culture of multiculture New Orleans so on this level naturalistic conjuring essence on everyday life
• Blue piano forces audience see both perspectives

  Tennessee Williams 'expressing the spirit of life' + Kazan 'catches the soul of Blanche... what all the fireworks are caused by' : scene 3 alerts audience moments emotional drama/tension partic sexual tensions + scene 4 intense sexuality s/s and triumph over Blanche scene 10 = atmosphere liberal relaxed french quarter mutating into nightmare cacophony (rape) destruction fragile imagantive reality music is heightened because distorted echo of the bluesy stains (perhaps American dream)
• The Varsouviana polka

  • only heard by Banche , sound of old fashioned world of Belle Reve (contrasts her) season 9 Mitch 'what music?'
• The Varsouviana polka 


  motif symbolises husbands suicide urges auidence within dramatic world + characters mind haunted by it foreshadows destined tragedy
• Paper Moon Scene 7

  unconscious while bathing musical counterpoint of S/s convo; stanley insist stella hears 'truth' abt 'lies,lies,inside and out all lies' 'deceit' tricks' abt blanche 'if you believed in me' and 'magic' whilst slipping from reality the sentimental lyrics and easy listening melody audience fears into the heart of Blanche ; paper is fragile and written upon no way out for B