Brian Donnelly (Please put your name and the full assignment details on all your work – makes it so
much easier for me!)
You have just the right idea here – good imaginative work, firmly based on the text and showing a
good understanding of the form and genre. You’ve captured Stanley’s anger and his suspicion.
You’ve used a lot of details from the play which is definitely what is required, but could perhaps have
used even more – done something about what Stanley had overheard, or about his plan to check up
on Blanche through his friend in Laurel. You could have done a few more stage directions as well –
although they should be kept brief.
You’ve understood the form and how to set out a playscript.There are a few minor mistakes with
punctuation – keep checking – and this is a little on the short side.
Grade B
Imagine that Stanley speaks to Steve about Blanche shortly after the events of Scene 4.
Your task is to write the dialogue between these two characters, in which Stanley will
have most to say, explaining what his opinions are of Blanche up to this point.
You should write in dialogue form and aim to create a sense of Stanley's 'voice' and
attitudes.
(Stanley bumps into Steve as they are clocking in)
STANLEY: Morning Steve
STEVE: Hi
STANLEY: Listen ‘ere, about the other night…
STEVE: Stanley?
STANLEY: That night was just anger boiling over at that manipulative woman, Blanche. She riles
me up! She ain’t at all like my Stella.
STEVE: Is Blanche all that bad?
STANLEY: She’s playing us all for a game. I don’t like it one bit, Steve. She’s making Stella blind
to it with her lying - fancy chatter is all she is and all she has.
STEVE: Stella don’t know?
STANLEY: I told Stella what I think of Blanche, she don’t care and thinks I’m being absurd but I’ll
tell you the same.
STANLEY: She owes us for what she’s lost! I want to know where our money has gone!
STEVE: She’s stolen from you, then!?
STANLEY: Stealing! And still stealing! If she runs anymore of them baths she takes every day, I
mean using all that water is fine when it’s not hers to pay for, not that she ever had to worry about
those things, an’ she’s drinking us out of house and home! I’ll probably flip my lid again.
STANLEY: She’s got it coming when I help Stella finally see what her game is. Authentic
‘showing off’ – slightly bullying I might not be all posh cocktail parties and fancy balls like she is but
I’m not the idiot she thinks I am.
STEVE: I don’t understand, you said Blanche lost some money?
STANLEY: Yeah hers and Stella’s country home, Belle Reve. She makes out she gone lost it because
something or other – straight away she broke down in tears. I’m no fool, Steve. It’s a swindle. I’ll
tell you - she’s trying to make us avoid the issue and distract us.
STEVE: Distract you?
STANLEY When I questioned her, the woman practically asked me to bed! Think o’ that! In front
of ‘er own sister! She flirts and fiddles, pretends to be all airs and graces, hoping for the turning of a
blind eye. Any wonder I get mad?
Is there something missing here?
STANLEY: Well I tell you… If she simply gone “lost” that house, like she tells it, she wouldn’t be
wearing all those fancy jewels and furs for one. 
STEVE: Well, what she done?
STANLEY: She was tryin’ to hide the papers and deeds of sale too. She makes out she got nothin’.
Yeah - nothing but the house’s worth in clothes and fancy jewels. I bet she has half the estate in fox
fur.
STANLEY: She thinks because she talks fancy and dresses in fur she can treat everyone like personal
skivvies. I don’t like that she got my Stella running all over either, waiting hand on foot.
STEVE: Not good.
STANLEY: We be better off without that woman’s schemes. 
STEVE: Wasn’t she married before?
STANLEY: She holds that over us for sympathy too. I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a trick in
the book Blanche wouldn’t use.
STANLEY: Jeez she even cringes when I make a loud noise, shut a drawer or close a door – anyone
would think she never had to open a door before. Good close observation – although info in Scene 5
STANLEY: Mind, the way she acts, in that big house of hers she probably didn’t have to.
STEVE: Heh, lets crack on shall we?
(They proceed into work, continuing chatting)