Scripted: Day five


Instead of starting from the beginning of the play, we performed scene 4 (the wasp scene) to our teacher. Throughout the scene, we continually tweaked parts, such as our tone and how we staged the scene. One example being the confrontational scene where William squares up to Bennett for picking on Chadwick. We made the mistake of staging this part behind the table on stage, where it really needed to be in front of the table to add to the drama and tension of the scene.

In addition, performing this scene allowed myself to get a greater focus on my character. In this scene he goes on a bit of a rant to the rest of his class, although it is probably aimed more towards Bennett that the others. It reads...



" Human beings are pathetic. Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts, we certainly won't. We could have made something really extraordinary, and we won't. We've been around one hundred thousand years. We'll have died out before the next two hundred. You know what we've got to look forward to? You know what will define the next two hundred years. Religions will become brutalised, crime rates will become hysterical, everybody will become addicted to internet sex, suicide will become fashionable, there'll be famine, there'll be floods, there'll e fires in the major cities of the western world. Our education systems will become battered, our health services unsustainable, our police force unmanageable, our governments corrupt. There'll be open brutality in the streets; there'll be nuclear war. So if you think I'm worried by you calling me names, Bennett, you little, little boy, you are fucking kidding yourself."



Here, we finally see an extremely dark side to Chadwick. One that is perhaps surprising to take. From our of no where he becomes this unhinged, lunatic predicting the demise of the human race and what the next two hundred years holds. He talks about complete chaos and destruction, perhaps looking at the bigger picture. I believe that he is disgusted at how petty Bennett is and cannot help but finally explode. However, his reaction is not violent. I think the message he is trying to get across to Bennett is that he is a tiny irrelevant speck on the face of the earth, and that Chadwick has a million more worries, much larger than the pathetic Bennett to think about. The darkness within him really shines through, perhaps revealing that Chadwick is always thinking ahead, or his very pessimistic in personality, he isn't particularly interesting to be around.