Between Riverside and Crazy Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Stephen Adly Guirgis
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Between Riverside and Crazy Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Stephen Adly Guirgis
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition). Theatre Communications Group (October 19, 2015).

• In the opening of the play, stage directions indicate that the setting for Act 1, Scene 1 opens in the kitchen of Pops’ apartment.

• Walter “Pops” Washington is described as sitting at the kitchen table of his “pre-war apartment on Riverside Drive… a grand old railroad flat with chandeliers and a river view” (4).

• The stage directions also indicate that Pops’s home is “a rent-controlled Palace ruled by a grieving despot King. It’s also prime Manhattan real estate that, if deregulated, would easily fetch ten times its current rent” (4).

• Pops drinks whiskey in the morning as he eats pie and listens to Oswaldo talk; Oswaldo refers to Pops as “Dad.”

• A young woman named Lulu appears, scantily clad, and Pops suggests she...

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