The main plot revolves around the grandmother, who is just named "Grandma" in the drama.
Pandangan umum mengenai aktor menurut Uta Hagen yang menjadi konsep dasar pemahaman tentang keaktoran ini akan sedikit diurai dalam tulisan berikut.Edward Albee's short drama, The Sandbox, is a great example of drama humor and also has a twisted way of explaining death. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut seorang aktor harus berlatih dan menyempurnakan perangkat eksternalnya yaitu tubuh, suara, dan wicara serta belajar ilmu-ilmu lain dengan seksama. Ia berpendapat bahwa aktor memerlukan bakat, imajinasi, pemahaman akan realitas, kehendak berkomunikasi, karakter dan etika, sudut pandang, memahami perilaku manusia, dan kedisiplinan menyeluruh. Hagen memiliki pandangan umum mengenai aktor yang ia tulis dalam bukunya Respect for Acting, pada bab pertama. Dalam hal pembelajaran teater, warisan besarnya berupa serangkaian latihan dengan objek yang ia bangun berdasarkan karya Stanislavski dan Vakhtangof. Perjalanan karir Hagen mengarahkannya menjadi guru atau pelatih teater di Studio Herbert Berghof dan menuliskan 2 buku best seller-nya yaitu Respect for Acting1 dan A Challenge for the Actor2. Namun karena persoalan pilihan politik ia memilih melanjutkan karirnya di panggung. Hagen kemudian melangkahkan kakinya ke Hollywood dan membintangi beberapa film. Karena kehebatan seni perannya tersebut ia dijuluki sebagai aktris terpercaya. Memulai karirnya dari panggung Broadway dan begitu memesona dalam pertunjukan “Whos’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” karya lakon Edward Albee. Uta Hagen (1919 – 2004) adalah seorang aktris dan praktisi teater Amerika. From the results of this analysis there is also a picture of the theme raised for this drama is about the emptiness, emptiness, and loneliness of a person in which we as humans need love and affection from other humans. Based on the results of this analysis it can be said that in this analysis the writer found ten absurd symbols contained in the sandbox drama.
The method used in this research is descriptive analysis method and qualitative method, which is describing the collected data and then compiled it by analyzing a semiotic drama script which can be seen from its extrinsic elements that have absurd symbols. This study uses the theory of Roland Barthes who put forward a sign or symbol and a little supporting theory from Saussasure. (3) To analyze the absurd symbols of The Sandbox drama. (2) To explain the reader understand and be able to describe what symbols are used from the drama The Sandbox. This research aims to : (1) To explain the reader understand the extrinsic elements of The Sandbox drama.
They did not care about mommy until mommypun died. Then mommy took grandma to a place and put her in a sandbox where I interpreted this as the last time for grandmother's care and that was very tragic, like waiting for grandmother to die so they could live in peace. He put my grandmother under the kitchen and only had a thin blanket and used potluck utensils. But the child that grandmother hoped didn't care about him. Where in the short story the 85-year-old grandmother who had been left by her husband and after the death of her husband the grandmother fought alone to support her child `namely mommys. This research is entitled An Analysis of Ten Symbol of Grandma's Death As Reflected In The Edward Albee Sandbox. At the point when the receptive youngster finally kicked the bucket, his sibling on the opposite part of the bargain encountered a religious passing: his heart all of a sudden wound up numb, he was as though torn from his body, and from that point forward he can't love, feel empathy or some other emotions. At that point the guardians did not falter to assuage him (directly in the soul of "dark amusingness"), they put out his eyes, tore out his hands, hauled out his tongue.
When they had embraced a kid - his twin sibling - and he began hollering with great swears. Yet, surprisingly his entry in their home uncovers the mystery that the bosses kept for their entire lives. So the Young Man gets the wealthy Mommy and Daddy with the main aim of getting cash, regardless of how however much as could be expected. He appears the American dream even with an attractive, yet a rationally mangled Young Man, without the capacity to cherish, accept, trust, however, is prepared to do anything for cash. In the play, Albee obliterates the picture of his incredible nation. Tragically, the fantasy of Edward Albee in the play composed by him in 1960 ended up being very a long way from this thought. The "American dream" is known to be the model of opportunity, an indication of America's exceptional destiny, where one and all can welcome himself and get what he merits.