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A Cream Cracker Under The Settee - Imagine you are directing the play for television. How would you do it and why?
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... A Cream Cracker Under The Settee Imagine you are directing the play for television. How would you do it and why? A cream cracker under the settee is about an old lady called Doris. While her helper is away, Doris accidentally falls while dusting a picture of her late husband and her. In doing so Doris injures her leg and is unable to get up. She starts to think about her present and past and how things were when her husband was around. Through the duration of the play, Doris character starts to change. First from being a house-proud nagging old woman to a thoughtful and pleasant woman. For the setting of this play I would choose an old semi-detached house as it says in the subscript. I would choose this house to be in a quiet area in a pleasant neighbourhood. This is because Doris is in her 70's and
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