Evaluative Essay of
“Wannabe Bank Robber”
I was randomly placed in a group with five other people in my drama class; we were given several stimuli and were told to think up an improvisation for each. We did so and were then told witch of the stimuli we would actually be working on. We then decided that we would create a comedy about an unfortunate bank robber.
The comedy started with the lead character Victor Watt (Tom) standing centre stage in a white spotlight telling how, if the ‘job’ had gone to plan, he would be rich Victor then exits up stage right. I, who was standing behind Victor, turns round and raises my hands then lowers them while wiggling my fingers and making the noise ‘bidlyboop’ repetitively to comically signify going into the fantasy flashback, the stage then fades to black.
The music (‘Little Green Bag’ from Reservoir Dogs) and lights come up on a fantasy scene in which Victors ‘job’ goes exactly to plan and more. (The lights in this scene are more yellow to the side of the stage on which the bank is.) As he walks in three ladies (Julie, Stacy & Claire) look him up and down and he turns to the audience and winks. He waltzes into the bank (up stage left) winks at the female bank clerk (Kim) and receives his big bag of ‘loot’. He walks out (centre stage) and is intercepted by a police officer (Me) that thinks he’s Clint Eastwood. The music stops and the police officer makes the tune from ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’, Victor looks the police officer up and down and asks what the hell he’s doing. The police officer responds to this by charging at Victor who cunningly side steps to evade his attack, this sends the police officer into an overly elaborate frenzy of a fall. After the deranged policeman is left face down half way down the street, Victor picks up two of the three ladies that flirted with him before he entered the bank leaving one (Julie). This last lady walks over to the face down police officer takes a look at him in disgust then continues to smoke. At this moment Victor looks back and whistles to this remaining female, all in a fluster she stubs out her cigarette on the police officers back and runs off to Victor who ‘gentlemanly’ lets her leave first as he caches a gander at her rear. The music stops and again I stand centre stage and make the same action to signify returning to the present then the scene fades to black.
