Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Director Karel Reiszs Saturday Night and sunshine Morning, the categorizeic bol iy of an angry young man, heralded a advancedfound kind of movie theatre for British audiences. Saturday Night and sunshine Morning is a classic social realist pip of the British New Wave. Made in 1960, it was ground fracture in both its impersonation of the industrial nightmare of workings class factory life, and its unrepentant, cocky anti-hero Arthur Seaton. The British New Wave and La Nouvelle Vague Saturday Night and sunshine Morning (1960) was Karel Reiszs starting line brag subscribe, do in the light of a consequence of outstanding documentaries from the Free pic movement.Interestingly, this film emerged at the same time as Jean-Luc Godards debut feature A Bout De Souffle (Breathless). Reisz and Godard, the enfant terrible of the French New Wave, shared sealed traits. Both were critics turned film-makers whose debut films were the first commercial hits of their respective new-fangle d waves, and both films were anti-establishment pieces from directors with political agendas. The Angry Young Man Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was a film to which many people could relate.Alan Sillitoe, who vary his intelligence for the pervade, was the creator of nonpareil of the original angry young men of cinema history, Arthur Seaton. Arthur is a working class anti-hero whose boredom of factory life is assuaged exactly by his reckless attitude to life. Trapped in a doomed end job, Arthur represents the individual against the system. He makes the most of his leisure time in an seek to escape the mediocrity of his life. Arthur is blunt and cocky, out for a goodly time with women, booze and a well cut suit. But he is angry about the restrictions p armd on him by his working class life.The cause of this aggression factory life united a mankind who recognized his anger. Cinema attendances reflected the fact that this was one of the first times audiences mat their own lives were represented on screen. Fatally Flawed At the set out of the film Arthur is having an affair with Brenda, a married woman, who he gets great(predicate). He tries to attend her when she says she wants an abortion, although ultimately this is unsuccessful. It is a testament to the film-makers that this storyline does not alienate audiences.In fact, for all his gruff, rabble rousing, Arthur remains a likable, if flawed, character. He is seen to get a sort of comeuppance when Brendas br early(a) in law beats him up at the Nottingham Goose Fair, but audience sympathy is still with Arthur. This is alike due in no small part to Albert Finneys amazing portrayal of Arthur as a working class lad coming to channelize taste terms with the responsibilities of manhood. The Midlands A Backdrop For Social Realism Setting the film in Nottingham adds a further dimension of imprisonment, through iconography which has since been integrated into British cinema.The imposing chimney sta cks and factories serve to increase the feelings of claustrophobia and provincial entrapment. Karel Reisz had already shown in his documentaries E genuinelyday Except Christmas and We Are The Lambeth Boys that ordinary people could volunteer stories and entertainment, but his directors vision too demonstrates a poeticism of social problems. The views Reisz portrays through his lens cede become embedded in British films, and typify a landscape still seen today in any British film within the social realist cannon.Saturday Night and Sunday MorningSaturday Night and Sunday Morning By Alan Sillitoe adenosine deaminasepted by Amanda Whittington pic Harrogate Theatre 22nd February eighth March 2008 Directed by Joyce Branagh Resource Material pic Alan Sillitoes ground breaking picture of 1950s Britain, as seen through the eyes of the unforgettable Arthur Seaton (immortalised on screen by Albert Finney), is now brought raging back to life and bang streetwise in a fast-moving new stage adaptation.Classic kitchen sink drama mix with high energy action and a toe-tapping 1950s fuelled soundtrack makes this at turns funny and heart-rending statement of the life and loves of the original angry young man a mustiness see for three generations. ContentsPage Brief Synopsis Historical context or so the author The adapted text List of Characters Principals Analysis In varied media 21st Century references Synopsis Saturday Night and Sunday Morning tells the story of Arthur Seaton, a young Nottingham factory worker, who is having an affair with Brenda, the wife of crap, an older co-worker.He also has a relationship with Doreen, a woman closer to his own age. When Brenda becomes pregnant with Arthurs child, he goes to his aunt for advice on aborting the child. Jack discovers the affair. His brother and a fellow pass give Arthur a serious beating. The play ends on an ambiguous note, with a recovered Arthur and Doreen discussing marriage and the prospect of a new home. His torical context 1958 The European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation. The birth of shudder and Roll, which resulted in the emergence of clubs. Jerry Lee Lewiss Great Balls of Fire reaches no 1 in the US charts.Womens rights were still limited, but this was to change over the coming decade. Marie Stopes, a campaigner for womens rights, dies, aged 69. The first man-made nuclear fusion was created. The class divide was still very prominent and strong. Labour were in government. Queen Elizabeth II had only deep been crowned. The idea of a new age had begun. About the Author bring upAlan Sillitoe Born4th March 1928, Nottingham. FamilySecond son of an illiterate tannery laborer. His father, Christopher Sillitoe, became one of the long-term unemployed during the 1930s Depression.On contrary occasions he worked as a house painter. Once he was imprisoned for running up bills for food that he had no hope of paying. Sillitoes mother, Silvina (Burton) worked in a lace fact ory. We lived in a room on Talbot Street whose four walls smelled of leaking gas, tatty fat, and layers of mouldering wall-paper, Sillitoe has recalled. Early lifeLeft school at 14 Sillitoes childhood was shadowed by the financial problems of the family, but he also found early on the joys of literature and started to plan his career as a make unnecessaryr.However, his first semi-fictional tale about his wild cousins was burned by his mother for being too revealing. At the age of 14 he left school and worked in a return of jobs in Nottingham factories, including a bicycle factory from 1942 to 1946. He served in the Royal Air Force, where he was a wireless operator. aft(prenominal) returning from Malaya, he was discovered to have tuberculosis. Sill toe spent sextetteteen months in an RAF hospital. During this period he started to write again and read intensively. Pensioned off at 21 on 45 shillings at week, he lived in France and Spain for seven years in an attempt to recover.I n 1951 he met an American poet, Ruth Fainlight, who was married, but they decided to go foreign together. From 1952 to 1958 they lived in France, Italy and Spain largely on Sillitoes air force pension. Encouraged by Robert Graves, whom he met on the island of Mallorca in 1956, Sillitoe began to write his first novel, SATURDAY NIGHT AND sunshine MORNING (1958), a story about working-class life in Nottingham. adenosine deaminasepters of the book Amanda Whittington Previous plays for New Perspectives include The Boy on the pitchers mound Last Stop Louisas and Players Angels.Other plays include Ladies twenty-four hour period (Hull Truck) Satin N Steel (Nottingham Playhouse and Bolton Octagon) Be My small fry (Soho Theatre and subsequently staged by Oldham Coliseum, Hull Truck and Salisbury Playhouse) Born To run short (Third Space) Bollywood Jane (Leicester Haymarket) The Willss misss (Tobacco Factory, Bristol and Radio Four). Publications include Satin N Steel and Be My Baby (Ni ck Hern Books) and Twist & Shout, Runaway Girl and Shirleys Song (SchoolPlay). Amanda has also indite for film and television, and was joint winner of the 2001 Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award. David Brett David Brett is an English actor, singer and arranger. David Brett is one of the original members of The Flying Pickets. He arranged a number of the groups songs, including the number one hit Only You. Brett is working as an actor, mainly performing on stage, but he has also participated in a number of TV productions and played Dedalus Diggle in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone1. Characters Arthur Seaton (21) a tall, iron-faced, crop-haired young person Loudmouth (40) a sailor Brenda (30) a married mother of twain Emler (20s) Brendas star, a bit touchedWinnie (25) Brendas sister, small and raging Waiter too old for the job hes hale to do Sweeper Girls (20s) factory workers Tealady (40s) a fixture of the factory Jack (30) self-contained, fresh-faced, with a perpetual f rown Robboe (40) the foreman, a quiet man with tortured eyes Aunt Ada (50) the personality of a promiscuous barmaid rice paddy (40s) an Irish drunk Landlady (50s) worldly-wise and cynical Courting Couple (20s) love-struck sorrow Man (30s) confused and sad Doreen (19) fresh and innocent with a shrill edgeSwaddies (20s) army thugs Can be staged with a minimum of six actors, playing Arthur Brenda/Tealady/Landlady Jack/Loudmouth/Grieving Man/Swaddie Winnie/Aunt Ada/Sweeper Girl/Ratface Doreen/EmLer/Sweeper Girl/Courting Girl Waiter/Robboe/Mick/Courting Boy/Swaddie Principal Analysis Arthur Arthur Seaton, a lathe operator in a bicycle factory in Nottingham, England. The blond, fibrous twenty- one-year-old fights to remain independent of society, employers, and marriage. He dates married womenfirst Brenda, then Winnieand engages in boisterous drinking bouts.After a beating by Winnies soldier husband, he settles for the single Doreen, deciding that he need not revoke all that life offe rs to remain independent. Brenda Jacks wife and Arthurs lover. A young mother of two, she is bored with Jack and finds romance and firing with Arthur. She is part of the dangerous Saturday Night life of the first one-half of the novel. After having an abortion, and after Arthur, discovered by Jack, has been beaten, she fades from the action. Doreen Greatton a factory worker. Nineteen years old and single, she is eager to be married but seeks to curb Arthurs excesses.She represents marriage and settling down to Arthur in the Sunday Morning half of the novel. She fails to get him past every pub but has won cargo from Arthur at the end. Winnie nicknamed Gyp, Brendas sister. She is livelier and more reckless than her older sister. She, too, has an affair with Arthur. Her husband, Bill, is a soldier stationed in Germany. He returns on leave with a friend and, tipped off to the affair by Jack, beats Arthur. By dating Winnie, Arthur hastens an end to the dangerous life that he is finding to be a strain.Jack Brendas husband and Arthurs foreman at the factory. He is smasher but dull. Rather than confront Arthur, he betrays him to Bill, Winnies husband. Aunt Ada Arthurs widowed aunt, a large, boisterous, and nurturing mother figure whose house teems with family at Christmas. Following his beating by Winnies husband, Arthur becomes withdrawn and cautious. It is in her house, to a lower place her vital influence, that Arthur breaks out of his withdrawal and returns to life, but with new attitudes. In different Media Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was first a novel compose by Alan Sillitoe in 1958.It was one of the first kinds of Kitchen Sink Dramas, with other noticeable ones being Angry Young Men and Billy Liar. It was adapted into a film in 1960, starring Albert Finney. The screenplay was adapted by Sillitoe himself. The adjoining adaptation was by David Brett in 1964 as a low calculate stage show, with a then unknown Ian McKellen in the role. The next priggi sh adaptation was by Amanda Whittington References and Themes in the 21st Century Adultery inscription Revenge Violence Love/Friendship Deceit Rectification of your Mistakes