... benches, reading. Jerry enters and walks straight over to Peter. Jerry shouts in Peter's face. The audience immediately makes up their mind about Jerry. In this play, there are two actors, one act, one scene, one set. The characters have never met beforehand and they will never meet again. This setup has been used deliberately by Edward Albee and it has ... . Both have different opinions of their lives. Peter thinks that he can turn it all around, but Jerry knows that there is no other way out than to make the ultimate sacrifice. I think this play is a good example of a 20th Century play...

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... the loneliness the characters are feeling at the time. The set design proves to be very flexible throughout the first act. In the last scene, the props onstage help the actors visually create a sense of chaos and despair. The champagne glasses are hurled across the stage, sofa pillows are thrown about, and countless pages of sheet music scatter all over the ... lights flashed up and down with emotional opera music sounding throughout the theatre, which added to the frantic feelings. Although this part of the design was mostly created by the actors, it still has a huge impact on those wa...

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