AMS Act Two Reading Journal

Comes out that Joe was the one who was to fault for the 21 pilots dying

Kate makes grape juice for Geroge - trying to drag back the past, perhaps relating grape juice to George, then George to Larry, then George's return to Larry's prospective return.
Sue and Ann talk about how Chris makes people believe they can be anything (seems fairly irrelevant to the rest of the plot).
Ann and Chris discuss whether or not Joe was guilty. 
Jim, Lydia, Frank and Sue are still entirely superfluous to the major plot, as they still don't feature in anything that causes any of the major revelations.
George shows up *insert dramatic noise here*
LOTS of stuff comes about, with how Steve is innocent and Joe did it all really, and Ann must absolutely NOT marry Chris EVER, and how Larry's favourable day was the day he was supposed to have died.
George and Chris have a great big argue about who killed all the pilots, and George demands Ann go home with him because she's not staying with Chris.
Kate turns George's hatred for her around with love.
George VERY frustrating.
George twisted and bitter about what happened with his father, and how his father is now a tiny, shell of a man.
Starts looking like perhaps George will forgive and forget, and then Ann tells him to piss off home and that she won't be going too.
Joe says that it was indeed him!!!
Chris shocked and horrified at his reasons, i.e. "I did it for you".  Disgusted, apalled etc, starts crying all over the place.
Larry acts as Ghost within the play, smothering everyone and not allowing anyone to go on.
Timing, where George comes back and introduces Steve's opinion just as Ann and Chris are gonna be happy.
Tragic scream - Kate's unrelenting insistance that Larry is alive.
No action whatsoever, really.  Just conversation.

AMS Act One Reading Journal

Learn about Larry going missing, tree gets blown down in the wind, Kate still hanging on to the fact that soldiers are still coming home.  Ann was previously Larry's girl, but is now in love with his younger brother Chris.  Kate NOT happy.  Joe just trying to keep everyone happy.

Kate Keller interesting:
- Bereaved and grieving mother who doesn't believe her son is dead.
- Angry at entire world for moving on without her child
- Just referred to as "Mother" rather than "Kate" in script - her main function in life?  So far absorbed into mothering and being a parent that any "Kate"-ness has been swallowed up?

Frank, Lydia, Jim and Sue used as comedic characters and setting.  Give context to backyard setting and make you feel as if you're sat in the backgarden.

Modelled on Greek tragedy
3 years after conclusion of WW2, Hiroshima, begin of Cold War, Berlin Wall 1947.

Ann keeping secrets from Kate with Chris, turning son against mother if son wasn't already against mother.
Ann reckons Larry's dead.