sailmaker
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In the play "Sailmaker" by Alan Spence the characters and setting seem very realistic. The play opens with Alec as an adult looking back on his childhood shortly after his mother died when he was eleven and follows him through to the time he leaves school. In this essay I am going to try and show how Alan Spence makes the plays elements seem realistic.
The play is set in 1960's Glasgow and is made obvious by such things as sectarianism, the accent the play is written in and the tenement houses the play is set around. The play is written in broad Scots language so instead of Billy saying, "see you small one" he says "see you wee yin". In the sixties Glasgow had a large number of overcrowded tenements and a lot of problems with football based sectarianism which helps to back up the evidence showing the play's setting.
The time setting is also quite clear and is made so by the fact that betting was illegal, black and white comics were around and The Band of Hope was very much to the four. Nowadays betting is very much accepted and the thought of black and white comics would be laughable. The Band of Hope was a religious group for young people, which was very popular but nowadays most young people have no knowledge of religion.
Davie and Alec are the plays main characters and this is blatant because Alec re-telling the story of his childhood and Davie being Alecs father means he is very much involved in the story line also there is very little about Billy and Ian...