Anatomy of a Suicide - Part 15

Lesson: Monday 26th November 2017

In this lesson, myself and Peter focused on Scene 2 of AOAS where Anna is shown to be a combination of drunk and high. This is the first time that the audience see Anna and could be shocked to some extent that she is visibly addicted to illegal substances. In this scene, it is found that the other person on stage, Dan, is a doctor and used to be friends with Anna until she raped his younger brother which was two years previously. Anna is clearly not in a good state and it is implied that before the scene started, she had asked for an "IV to take the edge off a comedown" off of Dan which he refused to do so. The two are stood in a hospital corridor on Dan's break which has finished and Anna desperately wants to go home with him so that she can have the IV if the two have sex with one another - again Dan refuses. At the same time, Carol is organising a time for when she can go to therapy (in my opinion). John comes home later in the scene which is when the two scenes speech begins to overlap.

In Anna's section of the scene, Anna is trying to act as though she isn't drunk and that she doesn't find the situation as funny as she does. Dan is getting increasingly annoyed at Anna and is somewhat disgusted by her due to their given circumstances which is why he may have such an adverse reaction to when Anna begins to ask if he wants to go home with her and it is implied to have sex.

Whilst going over the play and looking at the script to write this blog, I noticed that the starting word at almost every scene for Carol is repeated by Anna and Bonnie. I thought that this was just in the Hospital scenes but this can be seen in the Cooking scenes and the Animal scenes. This further shows how similar each woman is to each other and could be something that the audience don't really pick up on that the actors do.