• Uses many colloquialisms and morals not heard of today.
• Captures an audience, could be ‘Australian-ness’ but could also be Its series of universals.
• About ordinary people.
• A group of people are trying to stay young. Refusing to realise they are growing old.
• A lack of understanding of the growing process so they stick with what they know, which is their youth.
• Beginnings of a cycle of women in a situation, each one determined to make their life work. With each generation seeing those before fail but they continue to believe.
• Emma, being the oldest, is seen to have had a less then perfect life that her daughter Olive has witnessed so she makes the decision that she wants to have it differently but in fact is turning her own life …show more content…
But not this time, they have come back battered and bruised. Coming to the realisation they are no longer the fit young men they once were.
• Behind Barney’s joking façade is a man who is willing to break the code of mateship to save his own skin, causing Roo to lose respect for him.
• Audience sympathises with him because he uses his joking side as a shield against the pain of women laughing at him.
• Nancy, only main character we don’t meet, saw the lay-off lifestyle was crumbling and got out while she was still young. Olive believes this as traitorous.
• We can see a crumbling world with people who cling, like Olive, or change and grow like Nancy and Roo.
• Olive clings to the lifestyle but, it cannot continue. Pearl sees the downfalls and is used as the critical voice to Olive’s theories. Nancy ~ ‘if you’d only come out of your day-dream long enough to take a grown up look at the lay-off.’
• Roo, finally listening to Emma, sees the true reality of the lay-off but a little too late. Olive sees Roos attempt at change as being …show more content…
Roo becomes saddened and smashes the seventeenth doll.
• The play is left unresolved, straying from the usual happy ending. This ending represents the shocking realities that confront the audience with their own everyday lives.
• Throughout the play we get the sense of impending doom.
• Olive seems to possess a detachment from reality however she also has spirit and vitality.
• She disregards the conventional morals of the times and takes many risks for her dreams to come true.
• The theme of mateship is explored readily in the play.
• Barney has broken Roos trust and pretends he doesn’t realise his friendship has suffered from his betrayal when letting Roo walk out of the lay-off season alone. Roo shows Barney how much he has damaged the friendship throughout the play.
• Roo is very loyal to Olive, he knows how much the lay-off means to her and doesn’t want to abandon her.
• Olive has loyalties to Roo, but her focus is on the lay-off and with her dream, and that is where the downfall is.
• Nancy, although she oved on, still sends a telegram to Barney to wish him well which illustrates that her loyalties are still
• Captures an audience, could be ‘Australian-ness’ but could also be Its series of universals.
• About ordinary people.
• A group of people are trying to stay young. Refusing to realise they are growing old.
• A lack of understanding of the growing process so they stick with what they know, which is their youth.
• Beginnings of a cycle of women in a situation, each one determined to make their life work. With each generation seeing those before fail but they continue to believe.
• Emma, being the oldest, is seen to have had a less then perfect life that her daughter Olive has witnessed so she makes the decision that she wants to have it differently but in fact is turning her own life …show more content…
But not this time, they have come back battered and bruised. Coming to the realisation they are no longer the fit young men they once were.
• Behind Barney’s joking façade is a man who is willing to break the code of mateship to save his own skin, causing Roo to lose respect for him.
• Audience sympathises with him because he uses his joking side as a shield against the pain of women laughing at him.
• Nancy, only main character we don’t meet, saw the lay-off lifestyle was crumbling and got out while she was still young. Olive believes this as traitorous.
• We can see a crumbling world with people who cling, like Olive, or change and grow like Nancy and Roo.
• Olive clings to the lifestyle but, it cannot continue. Pearl sees the downfalls and is used as the critical voice to Olive’s theories. Nancy ~ ‘if you’d only come out of your day-dream long enough to take a grown up look at the lay-off.’
• Roo, finally listening to Emma, sees the true reality of the lay-off but a little too late. Olive sees Roos attempt at change as being …show more content…
Roo becomes saddened and smashes the seventeenth doll.
• The play is left unresolved, straying from the usual happy ending. This ending represents the shocking realities that confront the audience with their own everyday lives.
• Throughout the play we get the sense of impending doom.
• Olive seems to possess a detachment from reality however she also has spirit and vitality.
• She disregards the conventional morals of the times and takes many risks for her dreams to come true.
• The theme of mateship is explored readily in the play.
• Barney has broken Roos trust and pretends he doesn’t realise his friendship has suffered from his betrayal when letting Roo walk out of the lay-off season alone. Roo shows Barney how much he has damaged the friendship throughout the play.
• Roo is very loyal to Olive, he knows how much the lay-off means to her and doesn’t want to abandon her.
• Olive has loyalties to Roo, but her focus is on the lay-off and with her dream, and that is where the downfall is.
• Nancy, although she oved on, still sends a telegram to Barney to wish him well which illustrates that her loyalties are still