Upon some deliberation with how the script and the performance is going, we have decided that it would be better for me to be first marked on performing, and second marked on writing, due to the ratio of boys to girls in the group and how the script is panning out. I will still have an effect on the script, but to a lesser extent than before.
Our director approached me about the lack of comedy in what we have so far in our script, and with an idea of how to change that. The idea was that we have an “expectation” of what will happen, things like Santa at first being a magical present giver, and then finding out that actually he’s made up. As our piece is now focusing more on different “sections” of life – Growing Up, University/Job, Finding the One, Have A Family, and Retire – we decided that it would be best to have them particular to each section. For example, in the “Have a Family” section, there was:
‘Expectation: When I’m a parent, I’ll still have time to have a social life!
Reality: I have more contact with the Teletubbies than I do real human beings.’
We decided that there would be five of these per section, as a sort of through-line going throughout the entirety of the piece to contrast the much more serious verbatim stories that we had collected. I have attached them to this post.
EDIT: Later was added the final expectation/reality starting ‘I’m going to live to be 100!’ but I have added it here for convenience.
Ollie