Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall
Plan
Introduction- Play is written in first person, monologue, why its an
unusual choice for centre character to have a disability, how people
view others with disabilities in our society.
Paragraph 1- Creation of Spoonface, like of opera music (what it
symbolises for her) Her numbers
Paragraph 2- Situations Spoonface is placed in- has autism and cancer,
parents are splitting up, and her mother is an alcoholic. Why Hall
does this and how it makes us feel.
Paragraph 3- People around Spoonface and how they react to Spoonface-
Mother turns to alcohol, Father runs off with a younger woman, Mrs
Spud telling Spoonface she is special, How each of these relationships
make us feel.
Paragraph 4- Spoonface and the concentration camps- how Spoonface
feels about them, why Hall includes this information, Why we feel
sympathy towards Spoonface at this time.
Paragraph 5- Spoonface and death- how she figures out the meaning of
life, relationship with God, why Hall does all this.
Paragraph 6- Film version of play and my own production of a section
from the play. How the film and my version differed from the original
version and why, What certain things in the film version were meant to
symbolise.
Conclusion - What Lee Hall wants to make us realise, why he chose this
way to do it. How Hall actually creates a sympathetic relationship
between Spoonface and the audience.
The play Spoonface Steinberg is written in first person and in a
stream of consciousness. This is that it seems as if it is written
from someone's mind as soon as the person thinks of it. The play is a
monologue and Hall chooses a very unusual character to be the main
character in this type of play. Hall ...
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...all these different, shocking incidents that are happening
to Spoonface. Hall uses every possible chance and every possible
situation to make us feel sympathy towards Spoonface. He places the
character in a broken home, her father running off with another woman
leaving Spoonface with her non-maternal mother who does not understand
Spoonfaces condition. Hall however does create one person in this play
who shows love towards Spoonface and that is in the shape of the
cleaning lady Mrs Spud. The character provides solace for the audience
with them knowing that at least one person is looking after and
understanding Spoonface and her autism. I think Hall chooses a
cleaning lady to be the loving person in this play because he likes to
be different and doesn't use the stereotypical view of cleaners, it
also makes the whole play much more interesting and enjoyable.
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