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There is an old Polish saying that goes something like this:
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The world mourns the loss of film maker Robert Altman. I specially like the way he gave the reigns of character formation/formulation to his actors. When it worked for him in "Mash", it was awesome! We aim to follow the same pathway on scripting of theatre plays; any one to be snap-shotted here!
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Synopsis.
A twice married guy has a gambler's lifestyle. It has cost him his first marriage. He has managed to keep custody of his son and daughter and is remarried.
But the old obsession lingers on; and threatens deja vu disaster reruns. He is deserted and left desolate, only to confront his "cause and effect/s".
He turns things around; to re form and repair his marriage. But his wife pulls off an unwitting stroke of serendipity and irony? The loop journey is their emotional "Roller Coaster!". Project WIP.
Rory Milne.
Playwright.
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A play about the damages of compulsive gambling endured, but finally confronted.
As it stands, it's a 3 ACT 9 Scenes stage play, with the potential to be a Musical(which was it's original intent). The *favoured accent* is Scottish, but open to choice!
There are 3 main characters, and two children, boy and girl.
1]. JOSH BLAIR; divorcee; and the addicted and compulsive gambler; father of two; husband to his second wife who's running out of patience with it all!
2]. MARTHA BLAIR; his long suffering second wife no 2; foster mother to JOSH's first wife's children ..(Margaret who's unseen).
3]. STEVIE; JOSH's all round best running mate and gambling "shadow".
Plus two kids are Katie and Peter, both tweenagers(under 10yo).
Other cast are Henchmen No1 and No2 who are both muscle men for an unseen, shadowy all round Mr BIG; money lender; gangster Boss called Mr T McALGEE; nicknamed "BLACK DEATH McALGEE".
More cast are fellow travellers; and "betting shop" incidentals, with odd ones named as cameos. Also, shop staff ...(named or unnamed as seen fit).
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Opening LOCATION/s 1 is Holiday BLACKPOOL: LOCATION/s 2 Home Town EDINBURGH.
There's much room in the play's structure and plot for AD LIBs, where actors see a way to strengthen or enhance character's monologue / dialogue and / or scene / s. This, all in consultation with the author / playwright Rory Milne.
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TASTERS:
ACT 1 sets the mood and ambiance by scenes 1, 2, and 3.
ACT 2 Scene 1:
JOSH has "blown it!" and lost all his own cash along with "back-up" holiday funds! He's back bringing a cloud with him; forced to face MARTHA! The mood music is V solemn! Hell! And it all breaks loose, and what's more, a "hissy fit" in open public vue! SCENE: They're all on the tram back to the B & B digs, with long faces all round. The atmoshere is THICK! The two kids are confused and very fidgety. They both move over the aisle to another bench seat, together.
MARTHA: (Sits with JOSH, glowering...as she begins in stage whispers..["AD LIB"]..through clenched teeth to avoid the humiliation of the stares of fellow passengers; also to try to spare the kids from the bad vibes. M tries to disguise it all by glancing to both sides, at the passing landmarks, and then the seascape. The kids by now have turned to amusing themselves..[AD LIB].. by looking out and pointing out the Hotels and the Tower and Amusements park etc., and playing "I Spy!".
MARTHA: (To JOSH, as she digs a wounding elbow into his ribs, as if to punctuate her statements)...[AD LIB]...(By now she'd forgotten where she is and is more animated by rage)..
MARTHA: "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!..How many times have I told You?...My Dad's even told you himself! You'll always come off worst!..I have had enough of Your SHITE!...
That's the KIDS HOLIDAY RUINED thanks to you and your "just half an hour" nonsense! And You've done it Again!..WASTED THE BLOODY LOT!...I hope You're satisfied Josh Blair...You SELFISH IDIOT!..
(She pauses to calm herself a bit)...
You know we'll have to go home now, don't You!"...(Pregnant pause again... of choice length for effect)..
JOSH: (Opens his mouth to speak, but remains sheepishly silent, and almost motionless, except to flinch)..[AD LIB]..
MARTHA: "Don't think my plastic is going to bail us out! NO WAY!"..
(She's now holding back tears of anger and total frustration; she now produces a *large* tissue from her hand-bag. There's a long pause for reflection from M). [CUE J].
JOSH: (Crosses his arms and legs in a mindful defense, and tries to speak in a hesitant manner).."Look! What can I say?..
(He's only able just, to bring out the pain of his loss of control to M again, as well of his own feelings of total failure and guilt. He feels hopeless. He'd only been intent on winning holiday spending money).
MARTHA: (Wearily).."Don't say a DAMNED THING! I...(sighs)..You know! I can begin to sympathise with Margaret I never met her but now I'm beginning to understand just exactly how she felt, being around You!..(pause)..(she turns and spits it out directly at his face)..
An all time L O S E R!
...(pause to turn away again)..
My dad always used to say__"FOR SALE FOR CASH, DREAMS AND FANTASIES, FAILURE AND DISAPPOINTMENT FOR A LIFETIME, that's my business!"..(raises her hands to accentuate the point)...
It was his mantra. He'd say to my mother, if it wasn't for the fools and mugs that bet in his shops, we wouldn't be so well off today!" It's no WONDER she left you!..(long sobbing pause)..[AD LIB]....(by now, way past caring for the thoughts of any onlookers she drums her clenched fists on her knees/handbag, and stamps her feet loudly on the Tram floor, and shaking her head in a purely frustration driven "Tantrum", and now with complete abandonment;..[AD LIB]..)..(then spits out)..
You and that DAMNED STEVIE!.. BOTH of you! AAAHHHHH!! GAMBLING!..life WRECKERS!!!..
(SCENE FADES as M breaks down in floods of tears! The kids KATIE and PETER, begin to cry too in their confusion and innocent bewilderment)..
JOSH:..(Shuffling in his seat, wants the ground to swallow him up right now!)..[AD LIB]
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ACT 3 Scene 1
JOSH is again back, but this time to a house in total darkness, and a handwritten note of "Goodbye!".....
For the first time, it hits home hard, and he feels "stuck behind the *black ball!". What next?
SCENE: JOSH is outside his family house. He enters and goes into the living room. In the room is a space where the TV and Video/DVD machines would stand, if he hadn't sold them to raise the shortfall of cash to pay off DEATH McALGEE. His wife and the children have left; packed their bags and gone, leaving a note which he now reads aloud:
JOSH:..(alone).."Dear Josh, You know what this is about. First, You ruined the holiday for me and the children. And now the TV and Video/DVD are gone. It's the latest outrage blow you've inflicted on us, your innocent family. I can only guess you've sold them. They weren't yours to sell! I just can't take any more of the weird phone calls at all hours of the day and night, and making life a misery for the children and me. My Dad was always right about You, but you just wouldn't listen to sense! ENOUGH is ENOUGH!! I've given you chance after chance to give up your gambling obsession, but you just don't seem to care about the damage you're doing to those around you. Promises! Promises! GET HELP, JOSH, before it's too late. DON'T try to find us!....
JOSH:..(pauses to ponder the contents..[AD LIB].. and comments) .."Well, so much for that! No mention of *we love you Josh*...or any hint of it! She was happy to take any winnings I brought home to her.......
And the bloody bitch hasn't even sighned it!......Whose damned Tele?
[CLOSE SCENE]
What next!?
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These scenes can be expanded!
Aye yours.
Rory Milne.
Playwright.
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