i need help with a play...?

Question

the play is called the rose tattoo and i need some help on what it's about and about the character sarafina. if any one can tell me or give me a site that can help me, i would love that.

thanks

Answer 1

This is one I haven't seen, but I know I should. Here's a link that may help a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_Tattoo

good luck!

Answer 2

The play is something of an anomaly in the works of Tennessee Williams - a full-blown and exuberantly life-affirming comedy. Sarafina, a fiery Sicilian living along the Gulf Coast of the U. S. is wild about her truck-driving husband, and not only is convinced that he feels the same way about her, but that he is totally faithful to her. In the first few moments of the play, the husband is killed by an underworld gang for whom he worked; reacting to this, Serafina also loses the unborn child she is carrying. Left with a daughter entering her teen-age years, Serafina is disconsolate.

After a three year period of despondency, during which she dresses in nothing but a disheveled slip, two things happen: she discovers that her husband had in fact been unfaithful to her, and a burly young truck driver, with the body of her husband but a less appealing face, suddenly enters her life. After much sparring, these two lonely but sexually avaricious souls, find that they were made for each other.

The play would profit from some astute editing. A scene in Act One, where two caricatured Southern women mock Serafina, goes on much too long. And in the second act, several scenes between the daughter and a young sailor with whom she falls in love could be trimmed. Nevertheless the play has great appeal: it is not only a refreshing, earthy drama, Serafina is Williams' most memorable portrait of a woman with irrepressible verve and vitality.
http://www.theaternewsonline.com/LondonTheatreReviews/MADEFOREACHOTHER.cfm

Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048563/