Now that we have finished our devising unit/performance workshops, we can now move onto the F.M.P.(Final Major Project). For this we can work with anyone and people we haven't worked with before. The type of plays we have to put on is different British contemporary plays from a variety of playwrights such as Harold Pinter, David Rudkin, Joe Penhall, Roy Williams, Philip Ridley and so many, these plays have to be written after 1930 as it says in the grading criteria before I was thinking of writing a script but since it says in the grading criteria that all plays have to be contemporary my idea had to scraped. Also each of us have to do 3 scenes from these plays and our characters have to be completely different characters and the play itself has to be different when I mean different meaning that we can't do different scenes from the same playwright. For this project my partners are is Cameron and Pierce, I'm still deciding on my third partner whether it would be a girl or boy and a play to pick. The scene that me and Cameron are doing is a scene from 'The Fastest Clock In The Universe' a play by Philip Ridley where my second contemporary monologue is from. The characters that were playing is Cougar Glass (Cameron) & Captain Tock (Me). However the scene me & Pierce are working on is a scene from 'The Pitchfork Disney' the scene when Cosmo Disney first enters and meets Presley. 'The Pitchfork Disney' is where my first contemporary monologue is from. The characters were playing is Presley (Pierce) & Cosmo (Me).
The Pitchfork Disney
Plot
''The Pitchfork Disney'' is about two twins Presley & Haley, two adults I should say who live alone in the East End of London and they lead a childish fantasy existence, living mainly off chocolate. Their parents have been long gone, since they disappeared somewhere in the story Presley mentions his parents and reckons they have passed away. Presley & Haley both tell stories and discuss their dreams and fears. Haley sucks on a dummy and goes to sleep. From their window Presley and Haley see two guys, one who is sick. Presley brings the sick man in, who promptly vomits on the floor. The man introduces himself as Cosmo Disney and he explains that he and his partner (Not sexual-relationship partner) are showmen. Cosmo's sickness is caused by eating cockroaches which his talent consists of. He emotionally manipulates Presley, who is obviously attracted to him. Presley then tells Cosmo about a repeated dream that he has, involving a serial killer named 'The Pitchfork Disney'.
Immediately after Presley finishes his story, Cosmos partner arrives. He's a huge masked and a mute figure named 'Pitchfork Cavalier', and his act is simply taking his mask off to reveal his hideously deformed face. Pitchfork sings a wordless song, dances with Haley as she is unconscious and eats some of Presley's chocolate. However Cosmo convinces Presley to take Pitchfork to the shops, promising friendship. While Presley and Pitchfork are out, Cosmo then performs a bizarre sexual assault on Haley. Unexpectedly Presley returns and discovers Cosmo's true motives, and breaks his finger. Cosmo runs away, Pitchfork briefly returns and terrifies Presley and then leaves. Haley awakes, and both of them express their fear they share.
Themes of this play
The Pitchfork Disney is more of a dreamlike piece than a dark comedy with unrealistic sounds. This play primarily deals with fear, specifically childhood fears. The whole play can be interpreted as a dream in itself. There are long and highly descriptive monologues by characters in this play, especially Presley.
The Fastest Clock in the Universe
Plot
‘‘The Fastest Clock in the Universe’’ is about a young man named ‘Cougar Glass’ who adores his looks, but hates his age (Actually 30) and he claims is only 19 . Cougar lives with Captain Tock, who is infatuated with him. As the play begins, Cougar & Captain Tock are setting a trap. Cougar has stalked and lured (To tempt a person or an animal,to do something or to go somewhere). Cougar claims that every birthday is his 19th and he is forever a young muscled and glowing man. Captain is preparing for a birthday party for Cougar but as his tradition, Cougar has arranged his own present for himself, which is the form of a teenage boy. A 15 year old school boy called Foxtrot then turns up with a guest, Sherbet who unpacks truths from her handbag like a chirpy malevolent Mary Poppins. Cougar intends to use Foxtrot to satisfy his own desires, sexual and otherwise, and then to dispose of him as callously as possible, a repetitive scenario that disturbs the Captain.
Setting
The play is set in a broken down flat above an abandoned factory in the East End of London. In the flat there are many large cracks in the walls, table, hard-backed chairs, sofa, cupboard, sideboard, window, fridge, sink, gas cooker and a mirror. However the main feature of this is birds, stuffed birds, china birds and paintings of birds.
The System (Boys Piece)
For the boys piece we've decided to do a prison scene, Our piece is about two young men who arrive in the prison yard and settle in and get to know the other prisoners, what they're in for and the crimes they have committed etc. However this story mainly focuses on my character Samuel who has been in the prison the longest out of those 10 men. He knows what goes on around the prison, the rules and how to go about when prisoners are in there cell. In this scene
all the prisoners are in the yard and both police officers take a register of the prisoners. Meanwhile new inmates are introduced, Nana & Raymond. Samuel dreams of getting out that prison and tells the new inmates the stuff he has experienced in his time and the crime he has committed. Samuel was convicted of manslaughter after defending himself against his mothers boyfriend since his mum lost her job and didn't have enough money to look after him properly. The mothers boyfriend always managed to spend any little they had on his heroin addiction. Samuel then asked the man (Bastard) to leave but he said after he fucks his mum one more time, eventually he lost it and stabbed the man in the neck with his own needle 32 times. Samuels mother then ran away and never came back, he was so scared and didn't even phone the police for days. One day when he came back from school, officers were at his door. Samuel told them the story and they handcuffed him. Since that day of his arrest he's been in that prison.
PRISONERS
Charles - Nana
Shabill - Daniel
Pierce - The Warden
Cameron - Officer Benson
Prince - Chief Officer Ricky
Bicton - Raymond
Bradley - Ricardo (Gay prisoner)
Edward - Psycho
Mahin - Hamza
Me - Samuel
Sean - Mute
Ahmed - Sharif
There's a lot more that happen later on in this piece. In the end as a fight breaks out between Shabill & Ahmed's characters, Samuel slowly walks to the line and PC Benson spots this and tells him to return back to the group, but Samuel continues walking, the rest of the prisoner shouts to Samuel telling him stop, as he crosses the line...........BANG PC Benson shoots him. After it goes into a song 'He's got the whole world in his hands' sung by the psycho ad the lights fade.
(Yusuf helping us Piece our ideas together)
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