Revision & discussion

A. List the characters of the novel and describe their appearances.

B. Make the list of the words and word combinations relating to the THEATRE (as a general topic) which you have come across in the book.

C. Who and in which circumstances said these in the novel?

1. He’s quite a gentleman.

2. Don’t be natural. The stage isn’t the place for that. The stage is make-believe.

But seem natural.

3. You just wrung my heart. The critics are right, damn it, you’re an actress and no mistake.

4. Oh, Miss Lambert, I think I used to know your father in Jersy. He was a doctor, wasn’t he? He used to come to our house quite often.

5. Beginners, please.

6. He’ll be a nice friend for Roger.

7. I think you ought to know that people are beginning to talk. It’s doing her reputation a lot of harm.

8. I wasn’t thinking of a part. If I could have an understudy – I mean, that would give me a chance of attending rehearsals and studying your technique. That’s an education in itself. Everyone agrees about that.

9. I take my husband’s advice more often than he takes mine.

10. You ought to know me well enough by now to know that I would never let sentiment interfere with business.

11. If one of the friends we are expecting this afternoon happens to ask you what your husband is, it wouldn’t be untrue, would it, to say that he was in business?

12. I don’t want to look like a tart. On the other hand I don’t want to look too respectable.

13. She’s so awkward, her gestures are so meaningless.

14. They both of them thought the play would make her. Fools. It would kill her. 15. Avice says that both you and Michael have awfully been good to her. Take care she doesn’t romp away with the play.

16. Unfortunately for me you’ve taken away my belief in everything.

17. I shall never in all my life have another moment like this. I’m not going to share it with anyone.

18. We are the symbols of all this confused, aimless struggling that they call life, and it’s only the symbol which is real. They say acting is only make-believe. That make-believe is the only reality.

D. 1. Suggest what Julia might have written in her diary

a) when she and Michael met in Middlepool

b) after one of the parties in High Society

c) when she visited Avice in the small theatre where Avice worked

d) after one of her meetings with Charles Tamerly

e) about her victorious revenge in the play NOWADAYS

2. Suggest what Dolly de Vries might have written in her diary when Julia and

Michael asked her for help: to make investment into their new theatre.

3. Suggest what Roger might have written in his diary about Tom Fennel.

4. Suggest what Tom might have written in his diary

a) after Julia sighned a photo for him

b) after Julia’ triumph in the NOWADAYS.

THE MOON AND SIXPENCE