The Car Man Analysis

The Car Man
“The Car Man”, the dance drama by Mathew Bourne that takes place in a small town during the 1960’s in a car garage and a Diner. The car garage and the Diner are owned by the character named Dino thus the name Dino’s Garage and Diner. Some of the Characters that are introduce are: Dino the owner, Lana Dino’s wife, Rita Lana’s sister, Angelo, Rita’s Boyfriend, and Lucas the drifter that enter in a passionate affair with Lana and a misguided one with Angelo. Some of the attire of the characters is that of greaser style of the middle 1950’s or late 50’s, due on the Denim Jeans and white shirts, also unbutton square style shirts. The female characters wore fitted colorful dress on the hip and loose like an umbrella at the bottom.
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Lana is a flirtatious woman with all the man in the garage, by caressing their face or body, and given them flirtatious looks. Lana’s body movements leaves everything to the imagination, her uncover legs while she lays on the table like a damsel in distress depicts a sensual movement towards Lucas, but Lucas doesn’t seem interested. Lana continues with her sensual movements causing the other man in the garage to notice her, and they feel the attraction she is given them. Lana like the attention and the way the men look at her, with their vicious lusty eyes, like a hunter looks at a prey. In the other hand Lucas tough guy interested look, but not showing that he is attracted to Lana makes Lana more interested in him. There chemistry and lust takes them into a world of their own, once Dino Leaves for an errand in his car, the affair and lust between Luca and Lana intensifies. Lucas is now the dominant alpha male walking towards Lana while she is preparing flour on the table near the diner. Lucas grabs her with passion, but Lana pushes him away, given us the viewer a sense of wrongdoing, but she like the attention and she feels the lust she has for
Angelo is one of those outsiders and weak man, being push around by everyone, even his boss Dino. Even though Angelo is weak he has that look of a nice, gentle man. Rita likes how Angelo is as man, and we can see that she loves him deeply, because of the way their chemistry is felt. One of the scene that we see this love is when Angelo is push around by the other mechanics, he then sits down alone in a dark dim light on the middle of the stage. His facial expression feels cheerless and humiliated, also his hands on his laps, makes him feel isolated from the world. Rita tries to ask what’s wrong with him, but he refuses to tell her, Rita starts dancing to sheer him up and tell him that everything is going to be ok, and not to worry. Rita does a spiral movement with her body, which looks like a ballet dancer performing an Opera piece with a tutu; she does a stretch movement of her body to her feet abruptly. A routine that the love between the two characters is felt is when Rita extends her arm to Angelo, the two characters star dancing in unison with leaps and jumps, while at the end the focus ends at each other eyes and