(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.
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