DEVISED - Running order and new scene ideas 22/3/17

Whilst others were working/developing on scenes, Alice, Owen and myself took it upon ourselves to discuss a running order (with relevant, purposeful and working transitions). It is as follows (working titles):

1. Greeting scene - Adam and Catherine welcoming the audience to the church (Elements of Brechtirian theatre). Adam very vaguely explains where they are and he understands their confusions. (Desmond, Catherine, Eve is present)
2. Desmond's intro - Desmond bursts in through the doors of the church and quickly faints - it is a character introduction scene, but not much is revealed about Desmond's background, more his confusions and Adam welcomes him to his 'placement'. (Desmond, Adam, Catherine).
3. TRANSITION - Adam calls out Henri (as the newest arrival to purgatory) for the WHAOA scene. Will (Benny), Alice (Molly) and Owen (Alex) are pre set somewhere else in the church and Adam tells Henri to follow (as will the audience do so too) and he'll take Henri to wherever the others are pre set.
4. WHAO scene - Another character introduction scene for Benny, Alex, Molly and Henri. We find out how long they've been there and an insight into who they are. Adam takes Benny at the end to another room where Catherine is pre set.
5. Hell scene - Catherine tells Benny of her experience in 'the infernal' (hell). During the course of this scene, there are faint noises and dialogue coming from Alex, Molly and Henri who are in attempts of escaping.
6. TRANSITION - Adam catches Alex, Molly and Henri, he sends Alex and Molly away and takes Henri somewhere for the next scene.
7. Banfield chronicles - Adam explaining to Henri that he needs to drop/give up his religion and culture in order to move on to 'paradise' (heaven). At the end, Catherine enters and talks to Adam, Adam then addresses the fact he "has a meeting with a subject" (subject being Tyler)
8. TRANSITION - Adam takes audience elsewhere for meeting with Tyler.
9. Tyler's meeting - Discussing Tyler's placement.
10. Tyler's intro - Desmond and Tyler talking about 'placement' and Tyler's past. 
11. Tyler's monologue 
12. Group scene - Discussion with Adam about our confusion - Eve enters (Desmond and Alex cannot see her) and lures Will into eating the apple, he eats then disappears to the infernal. Everyone leaves except Catherine and Eve.
13. Rape girl scene - Eve teasing her about her time in the infernal and her accusing Desmond of rape in their lives. Desmond overhears part of the scene which leads to the next scene.
14. Angry scene - Desmond angry at Catherine for her 'second chance' - Adam enters and tells Catherine to take audience away so that Adam and Desmond can have an anonymous discussion in which he gives Desmond a second chance for life (Desmond is then not seen again until the very end). Eve is present at the start to witness Desmond's rage, to which she smiles at.
15. Heaven Apple Scene- 

DEVISED - Improving dialogue/dominance 16/3/17

Today we had Tom come in and he had observed from previous lessons that our dialogue is very poor so he took it upon himself to take the lesson and work with us to improve our dialogue. He talked about dominance with a scene, which he explained was who has control with the dialogue, the conversation, calls where the conversation goes and leads the objective/subject of the dialogue. I feel I have a very good sense of establishment when it comes to establishing the dominance within a scene/dialogue, but when it comes to devising I never take into account the dominant person or people (sometimes there can be more than one dominant character, sometimes all) so my script writing ability deteriorates as a result. However when improvising, I can do it quite well.
The main exercise we did was an improvisation exercise like park bench, but we were given context and each one was set inside a church (to link in with our devised piece). I found this very hard purely because Henri was told to use a Jamaican accent so it then became a game of 'try not to laugh' which even still I wasn't very good at. However the explanation of the concepts behind dialogue, improvising and script writing was very useful.

DEVISED - Angry scene with me, Taylor and Warren 9/3/17

(Taylor pre set on the floor, Cameron storms in)

Cameron: Get up.

Taylor: What?

Cameron: Get up. (Goes to her, aggressively) You Heard me. Get up. Why are you here?

(Taylor is silent, showing expressions of guilt and loss)

Cameron: Answer me!

Taylor: (Realising the reason to his anger) Look just calm down, you shouldn't...

Cameron: Yeah yeah shouldn't shout keep calm...fuck that! (Muttering but audible) Telling me to calm down...What gives you the right to have a second chance?

Taylor: Listen, let me explain...

Cameron: Explain? Explain?! How can you possibly justify yourself? You were down there because of whatever it is you done, and now you're here. Why? 

Taylor: To change my placement. 

Cameron: (Almost mocking her) To change your placement...So that's why he treats you like his bitch, yeah? Well let me tell you something. People like you don't get second chances. You're done.

Taylor: (Offended, she gets up to his face) I may be his 'bitch' but if I have even the slightest chance to make things right then I'm sorry but I'm going to take it. 

Cameron: I don't think you understand. Why do you get the second chance. Why you? Why not Will? Will I get a second chance if I need it? 

Taylor: I don't...I don't know

Cameron: How convenient. Why can't I just get a straight answer in this god forsaken place?!

(Adam enters in rage, having heard the last two lines)

Adam: (To Taylor, almost accusing her of causing trouble) What have you done now?

Taylor: (Scared) Nothing I swear...

Cameron: (To Adam) Why is she here?

Adam: You need to calm down and stop asking so many questions.

Cameron: Why? I don't know who you are, where I am, what this place is. I mean for all I know I could have been drugged and kidnapped! I have a right to know!

Adam: Here, you have no rights. 

Cameron: What? What do you mean? Of course I have ri...

Adam: (Interrupted) Taylor, leave us.

Taylor: But Adam, I think he should kn..

Adam: (Interrupted, shouting) Leave us!

(Taylor reluctantly but obediently starts to exit)

 Adam: Wait....Take them. All of them. Leave.

(Audience don't know what conversation Cameron and Adam have, but at the very end after the audience have seen people at their graves, last thing they see is Cameron walking out of the church premises into the world, to show that Adam has given him his 'second chance' but this time, second chance at life)

I wrote this scene - for the intention of my character - to show a complete change in my character; throughout the piece I want my character to be fairly calm through all the confusion and then this is the scene where he finally snaps. This would have much more of a shocking impact on the audience to see such a sudden and unexpected change in one's behaviour. When we set it, for the majority of my conversation with Taylor she is on the floor and I am standing over her talking down to her to symbolise that I've had enough of the confusion, lies and vague information so I want to take control and the dominance of the situation. However when she gets up to my level, it shows that she also snaps and has had enough of me digging at her so she tries to match my dominance.