Sparknotes the goat or who is sylvia

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Drama, Dark Comedy. A suburban living room, America, Present Day. Cast Size. Dramatists Play Service. Ideal for. Casting Notes. Mostly male cast Includes mature adult, adult, late teen characters. Synopsis The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Lead Characters. Martin The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?

Log in to add to your bookmarks! Stevie The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Billy The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Martin resumes his story with Stevie punctuating each detail with the smashing of various items adorning their home. The third and final act begins with Martin and Billy standing amongst the ruins of what was once their home.

Neither Martin nor Billy know where Stevie has gone, but they use their alone time to try and repair their damaged relationship. Martin pushes Billy away just as Ross enters to witness the scene. So fucking what?! As much as I do. I want them to just think freshly and newly about it. So when Stevie starts breaking these things, we know she is willing to destroy some precious things. A goat is the animal, and, also, I believe a person can be a goat, the butt of a situation. As stated by Esbjornson, The Goat is ultimately meant to be a tragedy.

We see that the personal is political, yes, but also something more: that what is private about our lives only comes to have meaning as we enter the public sphere and this public sphere enters us. Mike Jay. Florescu, Catalina Florina.

Gainor, J. After some more prodding by Ross, the full truth comes out when Martin shows his friend a photograph of his forbidden love. Turns out it is really forbidden: Sylvia , the object of his affections, is a goat. It is the same living room, but a day later. Martin and Stevie are now joined by their teenage son, Billy. Billy is a homosexual. Both parents demand that Billy leave the room and he does so in a state of profound emotional pain. Martin proceeds to plead his case by demanding that Stevie understand he loves both her and Sylvia to equal degrees.

Stevie counters by insisting that Martin cannot that he has completely destroyed their lives. She storms out of the house in almost uncontrollable anger. Three hours later, Billy returns to a demolition site. Nothing of any value remains intact inside the living room of his home. He questions his father as to the location of his mother.

Martin replies that the only the thing he knows for sure is that she has vowed to destroy him. Martin moves to embrace Billy in a show of paternal affection and protection, but the gesture rapidly takes on a completely different tone when father and son soon find themselves in the midst of a passion kiss which is only broken by the arrival of Ross.

Ross immediately sets upon Martin with an almost Biblical intensity of charges of perversion against nature and all things normal in the world.