The Script
Having read through the script I have made a list of key words for each scene, prelude and interludes to gain an insight into the mood that is being portrayed.I have done this as we have to make 4 large panels depicting headlines which are to support the themes in the production.
Each panel will be 4metres high and 1.5metres wide. (13ft x 5ft approx).
We have been asked to research 1980's headlines and the Yuppie era. Our play will also feature the Monopoly Board.
Main Characters:
Tom - Pretending to have wealth/money but not having any, using his credit card to purchase material things.
Nick - Pulling Tom's strings (portrays the Devil figure).
Lucy - Waitress - her and Tom fall in love with each other.
Eva - Waitress - Likes Nick.
Success was inspired by Hogarth's allegorical sequence of paintings The Rake's Progress which showed the decline and fall of Thomas Rakewell.
First Scene:
Keywords
Cheering, affluent, city types, yachts, property, cars, champagne, Bollinger, Cristal, Dom Perignon, brief cases, designer wardrobe, sports car, penthouse, mansions, art.
Money! Money! Money!
Celebration.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Prelude:
Keywords
Headlines:- Girl Gang blew up my daughter
Time Travel - closer than ever
Scene 2:
Keywords
Crazy, bored, angry, drunk, talk shit, kill friends, shadows.
(Greed/love of money)
Interlude 2:
Keywords
Beauty can bloom from the wasteland.
Magical - Moon Bathing
Magic in all things/ looking at life with different perspectives
Scene 3:
Keywords
Keeping secrets, credit (cards), dismissing his family.
Party, over the top, money, expense
Cool, amazing
Rich, famous, important, influential, power.
Recording Truth and secret desires (onto a CD)
Interlude 3:
Keywords
Opposites (being announced) ie: tooth/nail, pick/mix, bubble/squeak.
Scene 4:
Keywords
Mirrors - bliss/flattery/dreams etc
Dark/Light
Yearning/Wanting
Lucy - man of her dreams/ Good man
Eva - man of her dreams/ Bad man (money orientated)
Interlude 4:
Keywords
Broken man/ fallen man
Scene 5:
Keywords
Regrets/ mistakes
Feeling unlucky
Interlude 5:
Keywords
Pity/ self pity
Bailing out a friend
Scene 6:
Keywords
Risk, strategy, gambling, chance
Small win, bigger win
Huge Loss!!
Interlude 6:
Keywords
Destitute, hard luck, self pity
To rise like a phoenix
Scene 7:
Keywords
Having everything
Having it taken away (by a friend)
Despair
One moment it's there the next it's gone.
Interlude 7:
Keywords
Running/ being chased
Scene 8:
Keywords
Insalubrious locale
Aggravated, displeased. offended, irritable, war path
(Nick did not get any money from Tom)
Deceit/Deception
Pokerface
Loss
Interlude 8:
Keywords
Loss
Second chance?? Hope??
Scene 9:
Keywords
Park bench
Imagination
Second chance/love (real love)
Seeing the beauty in life
From reading the script I have thought that the 4 panels with headlines could be:
Greed
Poverty
Deception
Love
or possibly one as:
Excess
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