Play starts off with all the characters gathered around a table at a restaurant. This is because the Flusey has arranged to meet up with the brothers however the brothers don’t know they are going to be there at the same time in the same place. Whilst this is happening, the wives of the brothers turn up at the restaurant. There is dramatic irony because, the audience knows that the Flusey has been having affairs with the brothers, but the brothers do not know about each other, and neither do their wives. This comes to the point where the narrator comes in and says, “Freeze”. This is effective, as a vast number of things are happening, which might confuse the audience. Then she says “Let’s take it back to the beginning” and this is the point where all the characters go off stage, and all of us will show the organization of the love affairs. This scene displays the brothers at a younger age. The narrator explains that they are both inseparable, and are like ‘best friends’ and do everything together. This is helpful, as the audience can get an idea of the characters, and what they are like. Michael persuades his brother, Sam, to go and meet the girl he likes, Olivia, in the cinema. They both lie to their mother, pretending they have done their homework, when really both of the boys are sneaking out from the window, and ride to the cinema successfully. This illustrates the teenagers having a night out and lying to their parents. This scene has a bit of humour to it. As one of the brothers, Michael, acts as the ‘cool’ one, whereas Sam, can ‘embarrass’ his brother with all the little
things he does. E.g. when he sees the girls arriving, he waves his arms frantically in the air, to show that the boys are there. Also as soon as the brothers arrive at the cinema, Sam goes and sits next to Michael, but Michael pushes him away, as he wants to save a seat for Olivia . We wanted to show the difference in characters between the 2 brothers. Before the girls arrive, the Flusey comes along, in her short skirt, waving at the boys as she walks past she gives a boys a flirty look which attracts their attention straight away. When the girls arrive, Emma is forced to sit with Sam, and Olivia goes to sit with Michael. Emma is unimpressed at Sam, as he attempts to reach over and put his hand on her shoulder, whereas the other 2 starts to get a little too cosy. Olivia then has enough of Michael and his ‘games’ and therefore runs out with Sam following her. Kelly goes and takes Olivia’s place, and begins to question Michael, as to what just happened. The narrator cuts the play here and explains “this is the start of something new”. Kelly starts to fall for Michael, and Sam and Olivia, start going out.
The best thing at having a narrator is that he can speak about what has been going on between the years and time etc. the narrator, explains how, now we have come to the scene of the wedding between Sam and Olivia and both of them have become close within the last few years. Before the wedding, we see Sam sneakily, saying to the Flusey, also a bridesmaid in this scene, about how he wants to see her in a relationship. He trusts her not to say anything anyone. We get Michael and Kelly, walking in, as a couple, Emma forcing him to be at his brothers wedding. As the bride and groom, about to kiss, Michael puts his arm around Emma, and squeezing her tightly. Emma asks, “Michael, what are you doing?” “I can’t take it anymore” he replies, and storms off. This is a big impact for the audience, as we know that Michael has never managed to get over Olivia, and can’t to see his brother with her. Emma follows Michael off, the Flusey follows Emma off, and Sam follows the Flusey. This leaves Rebekah standing by herself, with mixed feelings.
The narrator has explained that Michael and Kelly get married, and that the Flusey has been having his affair with Sam. This is effective, as the narrator narrates the actions going on in other people’s lives. In this scene, we see the Flusey at Michael’s desk, asking for a job interview. Michael begins to fall for her, and he says “Let’s go to my office, and we can sort something out..” this is when the narrator cuts in, and says “we all know where this is going to lead”… this is the start of another love affair. This scene reiterates, of all the characters being back in the restaurant. Olivia and Kelly are shocked as to why their husbands are there with this girl. When Michael comes back from the toilets, he stares at everyone, and the to girls both speak at the same time. “Michael?” looks at him.. “Sam?” Looks at him. This brings in big impact, as it breaks the silence between the characters. Danielle then speaks, and she plays a dumb character in this play. She says she is the cleverest person here, as she knows what is going on. She explains the whole situation, with both Michael and Sam. The wives are too distraught to speak, and Emma runs off crying. The play ends here, but we have interpreted the narrator into the play, by Josie saying “the Flusey decided to tell everyone about her past affairs, but now she will stop, because I get the Flusey.” In other words, the narrator ends up marrying the Flusey, leaving Sam and Michael paying the for the consequences.
We were also asked to devise a play that uses the stage techniques that they have come across and discussed in the whole play, we were asked to you death as a source of action. Our play was about a two murders who killed three people. These three people then began to haunt the murderers. When they are being questioned, there conscience is the people they murdered.
The picture below is how the scene was set up.
The play started off in darkness with voices coming from behind the screen saying “kill”. This was effective as it built up tension in the audience. Katherine who plays the police officer is sitting on the chair at the table. The lights come on and she is talking to Rebekah and Charlotte who play the murderers. She asks them “Why did you kill them” and without the girls answering the lights turn off, this is good as it creates anxiety as people don’t know what happened. Katherine then goes behind the screen and Nancy comes on the stage and sits in the place of Katherine. At this point the lights turn on and the then Rebekah and Charlotte are standing up with Nancy l looking terrified, the lights then go off again and then come back on and Charlotte and Rebekah are leaning towards Nancy, the lights then go off again and back on and Charlotte a and Rebekah are close to Nancy with their hands near her body to look like they are about to kill her. The lights going on and off worked effectively as it looked like a flashback and
It allowed the audience to get a brief idea of what was happening. After that the lights go off and all you can hear is a loud pitched scream. This worked effectively as it gave the audience an idea what something bad had happened.
After the scream she quickly switches places with Katherine to make it look like the beginning scene. Katherine then says “Fine if you won’t co-operate, you will later” and kicks the chair behind her and storms out of the room. Rebekah and Charlotte freeze. Josie who plays a girl that got murdered comes onto stage and says “I was the first, but there were more”. She stood next to the screen and the there screams and bangs coming from behind the screen. This was effective as it allowed the audience to imagine what was happening instead of seeing it happen.
