F.M.P REHEARSING FOR PERFORMANCE WEEK 1 MON-FRI

WEEK 1

This week we continued working on our F.M.P. pieces. The piece I was mainly focusing on this week was ''The Pitchfork Disney'' piece with me and Pierce because since our scene is going in the first Act of the show I decided to focus on that before moving on to ''The Fastest Clock In The Universe''. Me and Pierce kept running our lines day in and day out, we walked around the department going over our lines, we even went to the canteen and came back to our department running our lines. To me this was quite a challenge, even though we exercise's like this with Yusuf it still helped, I had to challenge myself a bit more because there was a lot of distractions and people we know want to stop for a minute I just answered them back in character (in the role of Cosmo Disney), that way I was able to explore more with my character and see a few things that would and would work for my character. Also by doing this exercise with Pierce I was able to learn my lines quickly which I kind of struggled with because this character 'Cosmo Disney' ,that I'm portraying speaks quite a lot in this piece and there are lot of bizarre things my character does throughout the play.  Officially me and Pierce are of book and we've started blocking this scene. 

Although Pierce's character 'Presley Stray' (Main character of the Pitchfork Disney) only responds to each line I say, it's a good thing because by me delivering a lot of lines I'm giving him a lot of things to react to. Also things are just straight forward and snappy. As we were blocking our piece I realised that in the script it says that as my character comes on, Pierce (Presley) is trying to help me inside but I am shying away from him but since the effect is forcing me (Cosmo) into the house. Also my character is hunched over and he's still in pain, as Pierce re-bolts the door I vomit and Pierce just stares and there is a slight pause after that then I just go into my line. This is where the difficulty comes in with our piece and we are trying to find the naturalism within this and trying not to confuse our audience, but there's still time to sort things out now that we're off script. When we show Alex what we have so far and maybe he'll be able to suggest a few things. 

After I read through my script I highlighted a few words that had be cut out or changed since I have a feeling that if deliver certain words it may cut the audience back a little bit because of the old East End languages and it may sound a bit too corny when I deliver these words because if I was to show the others or whoever watches what me & Pierce have got so far they may take this piece as a joke, not Pierce but specifically me because they know that I don't speak in a cockney accent regularly and that it's not my forte. So I have to remind myself to keep things simple so that the audience can understand and engage with our piece. As I going through my script I was considering changing the scenario in the scene a little bit and what I was thinking of, instead of Cosmo just coming on and vomiting it could just start of with Pierce sweeping his living room and a knock on the door. As I come on stage I could come on, not feeling to good and Pierce trying to force me in and look after me ect. Somewhere in the script I say ''You should clear that up'' and what my character is referring to is the vomit that's on the floor, instead of vomit on the floor it can just be tea, water or drink that Cosmo has spilt. That way it's much easier/simpler for our audience to sort of grasp instead of vomit because that would just kind of confuse the audience bit, they may be thinking to themselves ''Where did that vomit come from'' 
since they may not have a clue what play it is. I'm not saying all of this is the idea me & Pierce will use for our scene,this is just a suggestion which I'm going to have to discuss with Pierce and if he likes it then we will both have to discuss with Alex, if he doesn't like it then I'll listen to what ideas he has.

There's quite a lot for us to think about for Piece and these things include the setting, scenario and the language in our piece. Hopefully within a couple of weeks  it should blocked properly and at a good standard. Here's the script for our scene:

Cosmo: That’s fault that is forcing me in here. Knew I was gonna puke always do.

Presley: …………Why?

Cosmo: Have to get it out of my system

Stares at Presley

Cosmo: You ill?

Presley: No.

Cosmo: Well you look it.

Presley: Well, I'm not.

Cosmo: I ain't a lover of illness me. Sick things. Germs getting into my bloodstream. I’ve never had anything wrong with me. Want it to stay that way.

Indicating vomit

You should clear that up.

Presley goes to kitchen and fills bucket with water

Cosmo: See me from here did you?

Presley: Yeah.

Cosmo: Why d’you come out? Feel sorry for me, did you? Think I was a boy? A boy in need?

Presley: Something like that.

Cosmo: Well, you was wrong. I ain't no boy………Wanted to touch me did you?

Presley: No.

Cosmo: Liar!

Presley: I'm not.

Cosmo: I don’t like being touched, me. Don’t like it all. Not by another man. Not even by the one I was with. You see him?

Presley: Yeah.

Cosmo: He’s gone to get our car. Parked it earlier, then forgot where it was, Could be walking the streets for hours. Not his fault. His brain ain't all it should be. He’ll come back. Has to. I'm like a magnet to him. The North Pole in the compass of his life.

Presley has knelt beside vomit

Cosmo: You fucking praying or what?........It’s only vomit. Won’t stain. Ain't curry.

Presley starts clearing up the vomit

Cosmo: This place stinks

Presley: Of what?

Cosmo: Chocolate

Presley: What kind?

Cosmo: What d’you mean what kind? Chocolate’s chocolate.

Presley: I eat a lot of chocolate

Cosmo: Can tell. Look at your teeth.

Presley: What’s wrong with them?

Cosmo: They’re rotten.

Presley: They’re not.

Cosmo: When was the last time you looked in the mirror?

Presley: I don’t like mirrors

Cosmo: Your eyes are pretty bloodshot too.

Presley: My eyes are pretty?!

Cosmo: Pretty bloodshot, I said. You get enough sleep?

Presley: Plenty. I take tablets

Cosmo: Well, that explains it. Tablets ain't real sleep. That’s chemical sleep. Your skin’s suffering.

Presley: My skin?

Cosmo: All pale and pasty. You need some fresh air. You’re an unhealthy human being, Mr Chocolate. You know what you need? A good scrub. You've been hibernating too long that’s your trouble.

Presley: I'm not hibern-

Cosmo: Now take me for instance. How do I look?

Presley: Oh……..

Cosmo: Go on. Spit it out

Presley: ………..Lovely.

Cosmo: Just lovely?

Presley: Very lovely

Cosmo: Just very lovely? Oh you can do better than that. Shall I tell you what I am?

Presley: What?

Cosmo: Perfect. Come here, Mr Chocolate.-----------WORD NOT NEEDED!

Presley approaches Cosmo.

Cosmo: Look at my eyes. Are they clear? Are the whites white and the blues blue?

Presley: Yeah.

Cosmo: And my skin? Any pimples or scars? Any blemishes of any shape size or description?

Presley: No.

Cosmo: And my hair? Is it glistening and healthy and redolent of a stallion?

Presley: Yeah.

Cosmo: And in my mouth?

Presley: Wonderful

Cosmo: Not one filling. Perfect white, shiny, healthy teeth.

The word that I've highlighted in red is a word that I've cut out because by saying it, to me it just sounds to corny and a bit kiddy. I have thought of ways of delivering that line and tried various things but it just wasn't feeling right for me. So what I decided to do is to just cut that word out 'Mr Chocolate' and just leave it as ''Perfect. Come Here,'' simple and by that way it will keep our audience engaged with our piece. Also if we had that word in, most likely it would just kill the vibe/momentum of this piece. Overall I like this piece.

Next week I shall focus more on my scene with me and Cameron ''The Fastest Clock in The Universe''

This weeks been fine :/