THEA 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Konstantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, The Zoo Story
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Jerry wants to wake peter up to what it actually means to be human. He thinks being alive is a constant state of conflict. He believes he has to pray for everyone in low places like him. Has the tendency to speak like a preacher: and it came to pass that the beast was deathly ill. 42nd street, until the 1980s, only played pornos. When i came home from a movie that was playing on forty-second street, a movie i"d seen, or one that was very much like one or several i"d seen . All jerry wants is to make contact with someone else, and he wants peter to understand him. His mother was a drunk who left him and his father, his entire family is dead, and he has never had a real relationship. He can"t make a basic connection with people because he can"t even deal with himself yet.