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Analysis Of Blue Window

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In Craig Lucas’ play, Blue Window, the main character, Libby, struggles to act the part as dutiful and entertaining party host after a mishap early on that causes her to question her reasoning behind and ability to plan such an event. Stuck between wanting to return to normalcy after tragedy and playing the façade of someone who is mentally “okay”, Libby and her misfit group of party guests portray the complexities of relationships in trying to make both emotional and conversational connections. By analyzing the staging, music and acting throughout Blue Window, it is clear to see how the director, Terry Silver-Alford, utilizes Lucas’ play to represent the bustling mundanity of everyday adulthood that ultimately plagues every person as each character endeavors to find solutions to their similarly depressive nuances of life and strive beyond their illusion of happiness. In doing so, each realizes that the closure they seek is not seen through their own “Blue Window,” but what they end up missing while on the inside.
The first scene opens with an array of different furniture spread across the stage with the New York skyline lining the backdrop. What initially seems as a group of characters interacting together in one room, soon becomes a chaotic mix of dialogue. Silver-Alford uses this chaos in order to introduce each character in the play by doing short freeze-frames as the audience peers into their mind or “blue window”. In doing so, the director allows the audience to

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