🎭 Motif Index
Sound
Varsouviana Polka: trauma memory surfacing (see Entry 1, Scenes 1, 6, 9–10).
Blue Piano: sensuous, urban pull (see Entry 1, Scenes 1–3, 7–8).
Light & Vision
Paper Lantern / Bright Bulb: concealment vs. exposure (see Entry 2, Scenes 3, 6, 9).
Searchlight Metaphor: truth and its extinction (see Entry 6, Scene 6).
Water & Cleansing
Bathing: ritualized “reset,” fragile rebirth (see Entry 3, Scenes 2, 7).
Animals & Meat
Predatory/Bestial Imagery; Meat Package: appetite, dominance (see Entry 4, Scenes 1, 3, 8).
Documents & Props
Letters, Trinkets, Costumes: curated identity, past curated as museum (see Entry 8, Scenes 2, 9).
Streetcar Routes (“Desire” → “Cemeteries” → “Elysian Fields”): fate‑map (see Entry 8, Scene 1).
Space
Elysian Fields Flat: claustrophobia, porous walls, overheard lives (see Entry 7, Scenes 1–4).
Violence & Silence
Unstaged Assault, Offstage Crashes: what realism chooses not to show (see Entry 9, Scenes 3, 10–11).
Final Gesture
“Kindness of strangers”: hope or dependency? (see Entry 10, Scene 11).