Scene 2
7 hours before Troy and Stacy had the conversation. Stacy is straightening her hair for school.
Vanessa enters.
Vanessa:(Calmly) Where are my straighteners
Stacy: I..I..I'm using them
Pause
Vanessa: who are you looking nice for ? Troy ?
Pause
Well, Answer me then!
Stacy: (Quietly) Yes
Vanessa: Hmm, do you need help ?
Pause
I said, DO YOU NEED HELP ?
Stacy: Yes
Vanessa: Hmm …
Vanessa grabs the straighteners and starts straightening Stacy's hair then burns her neck. Stacy screams. Vanessa walks off and Stacy is left crying.
Blackout
To start off, we were told to write a script between two characters. I initially had three plays in mind. I took one scene and made it into a script for two characters. My script was called He. In the script there is a character called Sarah and there's another character called Sandra but in the story she is referred to as mum.(she is the mother of Sarah). The story line is basically about abuse, to sum it all up Sarah's mother is in hospital as a result of kidney failure; after Sandra realises she is about to die she wants her daughter Sarah to know the truth about her father. So Sandra tells her daughter that she was physically and verbally abused by her father who Sandra refers to in the story as He. The scene ends with Sarah cradling her mum in her hands her mum is lost for breath;starts coughing and she passes away. I got this idea from my secondary school devised piece also called He by Patrick Kinzonzi. But, with this it is much more straight forward with my secondary school piece it was much more dramatic and complicated because it had a lot of conflict but I was told to make this piece much more straight forward so I did. We are all in one big group.
The scene between Simone Ziel and I (Sister Abuse) has been changed, we changed our abuse scene-instead of burning Simone Ziel's character(Stacey's) skin with a hair straightener, my character will abuse her physically when I attack her and smudge the lipstick on her head that she takes from my character's room without asking her. We also changed this from two separate scenes to a split scene. The other scene is between Esther and Charles( the abusing scene where the victim actually likes the abuse). So now it's two split scenes on stage. There has been another change; we all being put together to make one group piece(Group 1 and Group 2). I like the idea but I think certain things because of the level of focus in both groups, but you never know, I'm trusting Nick and Yusuf on this because they know what they are doing. Let's just see how it goes.
7th March,
So basically today the only thing we done was polishing the introduction of our group play (as group one and two). In contrast to that, Simone Ziel and Is part as the sister sibling abuse has been changed because there were too many girls and not even boys to symbolise that abuse not only happens to women it happens to men as well. So now Sean Lennon is playing the role of Simone's character and Bicton Watson is playing the abuser (which was my previous role). I like the fact that Nick done that sex swapping from Female to male. The whole piece is coming together especially with the bit of dialogue that other people interject with. For instance, if Cameron Flavien- Nicholas says, there is a girl; someone else will say called Charlene. But, what we done is we decided to not make certain individuals say the interjection bit because as a group our concept is to make it come across as improvised. Some of the scripts got cut down because the beginning is meant to be simple and short.
This Sarah script was then re-written by Simone Ziel for Male Abuse.
Troy- where is it?
Dan stutters on specific words
Dan- Where is what I seriously don't know what you're talking about
Troy- come here
Troy - I'll ask you one more time where is it
Dan- I seriously..
Troy interjects shouting where is it? Dan runs away then my monologue that I wrote comes in' He actually doesn't know, every time something goes wrong Troy always blames it on him it's not his fault'.
Then Simone interjects, then Ayo asks can boys get abused then I decided to interject saying yes they can. Ayo interjects saying does it happen alot then I say yes it can happen a lot.
Charlene's introduction script was written by me and Charles Addae.
This is to introduce Tracy's character as Charlene; it was written by Charles Addae and I.
Nick did not want us to use the word abuse so instead we came up with words that were associated with pain. For example: hit, hurt etc...
To start off, we were told to write a script between two characters. I initially had three plays in mind. I took one scene and made it into a script for two characters. My script was called He. In the script there is a character called Sarah and there's another character called Sandra but in the story she is referred to as mum.(she is the mother of Sarah). The story line is basically about abuse, to sum it all up Sarah's mother is in hospital as a result of kidney failure; after Sandra realises she is about to die she wants her daughter Sarah to know the truth about her father. So Sandra tells her daughter that she was physically and verbally abused by her father who Sandra refers to in the story as He. The scene ends with Sarah cradling her mum in her hands her mum is lost for breath;starts coughing and she passes away. I got this idea from my secondary school devised piece also called He by Patrick Kinzonzi. But, with this it is much more straight forward with my secondary school piece it was much more dramatic and complicated because it had a lot of conflict but I was told to make this piece much more straight forward so I did. We are all in one big group.
The scene between Simone Ziel and I (Sister Abuse) has been changed, we changed our abuse scene-instead of burning Simone Ziel's character(Stacey's) skin with a hair straightener, my character will abuse her physically when I attack her and smudge the lipstick on her head that she takes from my character's room without asking her. We also changed this from two separate scenes to a split scene. The other scene is between Esther and Charles( the abusing scene where the victim actually likes the abuse). So now it's two split scenes on stage. There has been another change; we all being put together to make one group piece(Group 1 and Group 2). I like the idea but I think certain things because of the level of focus in both groups, but you never know, I'm trusting Nick and Yusuf on this because they know what they are doing. Let's just see how it goes.
7th March,
So basically today the only thing we done was polishing the introduction of our group play (as group one and two). In contrast to that, Simone Ziel and Is part as the sister sibling abuse has been changed because there were too many girls and not even boys to symbolise that abuse not only happens to women it happens to men as well. So now Sean Lennon is playing the role of Simone's character and Bicton Watson is playing the abuser (which was my previous role). I like the fact that Nick done that sex swapping from Female to male. The whole piece is coming together especially with the bit of dialogue that other people interject with. For instance, if Cameron Flavien- Nicholas says, there is a girl; someone else will say called Charlene. But, what we done is we decided to not make certain individuals say the interjection bit because as a group our concept is to make it come across as improvised. Some of the scripts got cut down because the beginning is meant to be simple and short.
Scene 1
Everyone is standing on stage. Counting from 1 to 10 in cannon. Each character feeling a different emotion. (30 seconds)
All (said in cannon): The person I am
All (In unison): The person I was, are a world apart but yet the same.
Blackout
Scene 2
It's the end of lesson and Stacy is feeling uneasy after what happened in lesson today. She hurries out of the classroom not knowing that Troy is waiting for her.
Troy: Stacy ?
Stacy: (Said in a flat tone) Oh, Don't do that again. You scared me
Conscience: Lies; Excuses; Problems
Troy: You alright ?
Stacy: Yeah, why ?
Troy: Stacy, you been off with me for ages now. What is going on ?
Stacy: Nothing, I..I've just been busy lately
Troy: Doing what ?
Stacy: Some revision and college applications.
Conscience: Lies; Excuses; Problems
Troy: Stacy, there isn't an exam until March; plus, you are smart enough, you don't need to revise. And college applications ? It's only November; you've got time.
Stacy: This year is going to go fast and I want to be ahead of everyone and I want to get places as soon as possible ...
Troy: Stacy –
Stacy: … and since when did you care about my education ?
Troy: I care about everything you do. Come on now, seriously, what has gotten into you ?
Stacy: How's your brother ?
Troy: He's fine … wait … why are we suddenly talking about my brother ? …
Stacy: Tell him that I said 'Hi'
Troy: Stacy…
Stacy: What ?
Troy: You're scaring me. You are always talkative and up-beat. Now suddenly you are watching out for everyone and everything. I tried to hug you and you pushed me away, and you usually love my hugs …
Stacy: Education first, boys come second.
Troy: For God's sake STACY !!
Stacy: leave me alone !
Conscience: Denial. Fear. Confusion.
Troy: Stacy –
Stacy: GO AWAY !
Troy: STACY !
(Grabs Stacy's arm and feels the bruise underneath her top; Troy lifts up her sleeve and is shocked to see the big bruise on her upper arm. Stacy stops; grounded to the floor, her eyes start to water)
Stacy … what happened to your arm ?
Stacy: my arm ?
Troy: Yes, your arm
Stacy: Nothing happened to my arm
Troy: (Lets go of Stacy's arm) Are you crying ?
Stacy: Just go, please.
Troy: But I'm your boyfriend, something is going on
Stacy: I'm fine …
Troy: Wait ... (lifts up Stacy's hair; a burn mark is now visible) Who did this to you ?
Stacy: I burned my hair when I straightened it, no biggy.
Troy: TELL ME !!
Conscience:Lies. Excuses. Problems. Denial. Fear. Confusion.
Stacy: CAN YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE ?!
Troy: SOMEONE IS DOING THIS TO YOU AND YOU ARE TOO SCARED TO TELL SOMEONE !
Stacy: GO AWAY! (Pushes Troy) GO AWAY ! LEAVE ME ALONE
Pause
Troy: Fine. I..I..I'll see you tomorrow then, I guess.
Stacy:I'm sorry. I just can't do it right now
Troy: I know. (He exits)
Blackout
Scene 2
7 hours before Troy and Stacy had the conversation. Stacy is straightening her hair for school.
Vanessa enters.
Vanessa:(Calmly) Where are my straighteners
Stacy: I..I..I'm using them
Pause
Vanessa: who are you looking nice for ? Troy ?
Pause
Well, Answer me then!
Stacy: (Quietly) Yes
Vanessa: Hmm, do you need help ?
Pause
I said, DO YOU NEED HELP ?
Stacy: Yes
Vanessa: Hmm …
Vanessa grabs the straighteners and starts straightening Stacy's hair then burns her neck. Stacy screams. Vanessa walks off and Stacy is left crying.
Blackout
Scene 3
Troy is sitting down, trying to call Stacy. He calls once and it goes to voice mail. He calls again, but this time he discovers that she turned her phone off. He angrily throws the phone down and starts to think; his conscience says a monologue.
Troy's Conscience:I never thought I would be feeling so stressed over this. Getting stressed over a situation that I don't know. About a girl that I know very well. See, I know she is not telling me something because what person would randomly get bruises and scars everywhere? Okay, I can understand burning yourself when you are straightening your hair but it's so noticeable that someone is doing this to her. Someone is abusing her, bullying her, tormenting her and she is too scared to tell her me or anyone. I don't blame her but this has been going on for ages now that is has come to a point where I feel to give up on her … or at least break into her house to find out what is actually going on. I don't want to give up on her but look at the amount of times I offered a helping hand and she slapped it away; slapped it away too many times that it is starting to hurt. She doesn't know she is hurting me too.
Blackout
Scene 4
Troy is sitting on the sofa in the living room in Stacy's home. Stacy is shocked and confused to find Troy sitting here.
Stacy: What are you doing here?
Troy: It's Friday. It's our 6 months, remember? We were suppose to watch a film together; I guess you forgot
Stacy: Oh, sorry. I will make it up to you, I promise
Pause
Troy: Stacy, I tried calling you and texting you and I got no answer
Stacy: My phone broke
Troy: How?
Stacy: It smashed on the floor
Troy: Is that right ?
Stacy: So you think I'm lying to you now?
Troy: Well, you have been for a a few months now
Stacy: It's hard …
Troy: It's hard to tell the one you love, yeah?
Stacy: It's not like that–
Troy: Than tell me. I find it hard to sleep at night knowing the closest thing in my life is getting killed slowly. You are lying to me and this relationship is not going to work if you are not telling me the whole truth
Stacy: you are kidding me right ?
Pause
I thought, out of all people, you would understand why I can't tell you
Troy: I tried but I can't fully understand
Stacy: So you want to break up with me instead because I ain't telling you the truth ?
Troy: It's as if you don't want me so why would I be with someone that doesn't want me ?
Stacy: You know what, get out.
Troy: Exactly, you are so stuck up, you want everything your way.
Stacy: I have not had anything my way for the past few months.
Troy: And it's hurting you, huh ?
Pause
You know. I tried to be supportive and it didn't work. I give up
Stacy: You are giving up on me ? When I need you most? YOU ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW HOW HARD IT IS FOR ME–
Troy: I DON'T KNOW HOW HARD IT IS FOR YOU BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHA–
Stacy: YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON ? (Pulls up sleeve) This is the mark my sister gave after we went to dinner with your parents. This mark, she burned me with the straighteners when I tried to look nice for you. That black eye that Keisha asked me about? I got punched up one evening. That time when you wanted to come over to spend the night and I said no? My sister held me by the neck and forced me to. One time, my parents went to dinner together for their anniversary and that's when my sister grabs my hair and started hitting me with her hair spray bottle because 'I didn't follow commands'. Now you know what's going on.
Pause
Troy: Wow, urm …ohh. I think you need to tell your dad
Stacy: how can I ? We won't believe me
Troy: I will tell the police
Stacy: I knew I couldn't tell you
Troy: So what do you want me to do? Just offer support whilst you are getting rushed in your own home? (sighs) You know what, Just stay round mine, I will help you pack your bags
Stacy: I am not going nowhere
Troy: You see what I meant before. You are so stubborn. Can't you see what she is doing to you ?
Stacy: It is not that easy. (Troy walks towards the door) This is the time I need you the most and you are just going to walk out on me ?
Troy: I love you and care about you but I can't stand here whilst this is happening to you. I just can't. Either you tell the police or your parents or I will
Stacy: YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TELL ANYONE!
Troy: I CAN'T WATCH MY GIRLFRIEND DIE IN FRONT OF MY EYES
Stacy: I SAID, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TELL ANYONE!
Troy: And why is that then?
Stacy: BECAUSE I SAID SO ! (Pushes Troy who drops on the floor. Pause) Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, it won't happen again.
Troy gets up and grabs his coat
Troy: I ain't your stress ball for you to be taking your anger out on me. I tried to help but my help isn't worth it, is it ? I won't be here to support you no more. It's over. I give up. You can suffer in the comfort of your own home. I just can't do this no more
Stacy: Please …Please … Don't go. (Stacy tries to hug Troy and pull him back) I love you. This is the time I need you; you can't walk out when the girl you love is suffering. Please; stay. I...I...I'm sorry. Please, we can make it work. We can make us work. Please, just–
Troy: Stacy I tried and tried and tried. All this time, you were hurting me as well but I tried to save your life but instead, you blew me off again but even work. Goodbye Stacy.
Troy exits
Stacy:Please, don't … go.
Blackout
Scene 5
Stacy is writing in her diary. Her conscience is saying this aloud to the audience as a monologue.
Stacy sighs
Stacy's conscience: It's like everything is going from bad to worse. My life wasn't that perfect before but at least I had people in my life that made it seem like it. I understand why Troy broke it off with me. All these past few months, I've not told him the whole truth about what has been going on. I knew he would force me to tell the police or tell my parents but I knew that would put me in danger; I knew she was going to kill me if I did. If she is capable of burning my neck with straighteners, beating me up and use the closest thing to her as weapons then she is capable of killing me. All this time, he wanted me safe and protected; but instead, I pushed him away. And even when I told him, he still tried to help me but I pushed him away even further. I lost the person I love; I will forever love the person I lost. They lost the person they loved but they don't love the person they lost anymore. I lost myself and I can't love myself anymore. My own stepsister ruined my life; she is pushing me towards the edge and, to be honest, I am just feeling to jump.
Blackout.
Scene 6
Stacy comes home from school and sees that her room is trashed. She then sees Vanessa looking through her stuff
Stacy: What are you doing?
Vanessa: Where is it? What have you done with it?
Stacy: What are you talking about?
Vanessa: MY FAVOURITE NECKLACE
Stacy:Necklace?
Vanessa: Do not lie to me
Stacy: I swear, I don't know what you are talking about. If I did, I would of told you
Vanessa: YOU LOVE TO LIE TO ME! (Vanessa throws an object at Stacy, Stacy just manages to avoid it) Oh my gosh, you just want to get hit every time, don't you ?
Pause
Stacy: My dad got me that. THAT was the last birthday present he got before he left. I bet you did that on purpose, huh ? I bet you hate the fact that your own father is spending more time with me, pushing me to be better then I can than spending time with you. I bet you are jealous that I was in a 6 months relationship when you had no one there for you. All your friends achieving; fulfilling there dreams whilst you are doing … what again? Working in Argos? I'm sorry that your dad loves his step daughter more than he loves his actual daughter. I'm sorry you can't find love because you drive all the boys away.
Vanessa: Shut up ! SHUT UP !
Stacy: I bet you want to hit me now, huh ? Make me look ugly so you can feel better about yourself. Go on then. Mum is still at work and Dad at a meeting. No one will hear me. GO ON THEN, CARRY ON RUINING MY LIFE BECAUSE YOURS ISN'T PERFECT
Pause
Vanessa's Conscience: Ever since dad got married to your mum, he decided to put all his attention on you. I got 7 A's & 4 A* in my GCSE's and he said “Well done, I am so proud of you. Keep up the good work”. That was the last time he showed me support. He put all the focus on you. At first, I understood why he did it, it was because he wanted to make you like me. Smart. He knew that you was bright but not as bright as I was. Then suddenly, it was as if he didn't notice I was his daughter no more. Yeah, we would talk here and there but not like when it was just me and him; when he was more like my best friend. I used to tell him everything. I never had a lot of friends in secondary school. Only had 4. People used to make the piss out of me because I was apparently a teachers pet. I only had one 1 boyfriend, who cheated on me after a year and a bit, Tyrone.When I wanted my dad to be there for me, he was with you, treating you like his princess. That's when I knew I had no one. I couldn't trust no one anymore and it was because of you. Ever since that time when you stole my camera to take photos of you and Troy to show mum and dad, I took that as an opportunity to hit you. It felt great. I enjoyed making you feel the pain I felt everyday and I couldn't stop myself. When you and Troy split up, I was overjoyed then when you locked yourself from the world. You didn't want anything to do with anyone and I heard you throw up for a week straight and crying your eyes out. You rarely ate. I couldn't help but blame myself for ruining everything for you. I felt suicidal too. I was looking for Tyrone's necklace so I can sell it, for closure and because I know it's time to spread my wings and fly. I can't live like this. One of my ex-classmates offered me to stay round hers. I'm going to go back to college then go university, hopefully. It's time for a new beginning.
Stacy:HIT ME THEN! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Vanessa: I can't do it. I can't do this. You get on my nerves. I hope you commit suicide.
Vanessa walks out. Stacy starts to breathe heavily. She looks out the window and sees Vanessa with a load of bags and realises what happened. Vanessa is moving away. She sees one of the house phones on the other side of the room and calls the police.
Stacy: Hello, Police please … urm, I would like to report abuse. A family member has been abusing me for 3 months now, she is moving away … I want her to be caught before she is gone forever ...
Blackout
This Sarah script was then re-written by Simone Ziel for Male Abuse.
Troy- where is it?
Dan stutters on specific words
Dan- Where is what I seriously don't know what you're talking about
Troy- come here
Troy - I'll ask you one more time where is it
Dan- I seriously..
Troy interjects shouting where is it? Dan runs away then my monologue that I wrote comes in' He actually doesn't know, every time something goes wrong Troy always blames it on him it's not his fault'.
Then Simone interjects, then Ayo asks can boys get abused then I decided to interject saying yes they can. Ayo interjects saying does it happen alot then I say yes it can happen a lot.
Charlene's introduction script was written by me and Charles Addae.
Yv. Alright so There's this woman
Me -Called?
Yv -Called Charlene
Me-Yeah Charlene , Charlene , she's pretty young. About let's say , 18.
Yv- yeah 18 where does she live
Charles - She lives , in ports mouth in a town called blue water
Yv - has she got a job
Me- she's a waitress at TGI's
Tracy interjects and says welcome to TGI's what would you like?
Yv- has she got a boyfriend
Charles- yeah she does. His names James.
Paige interjects well how long have they been going out
Charles- for like two years
Cameron Flavien Nicholas- oh long time
Yv- yeah well
Me -Called?
Yv -Called Charlene
Me-Yeah Charlene , Charlene , she's pretty young. About let's say , 18.
Yv- yeah 18 where does she live
Charles - She lives , in ports mouth in a town called blue water
Yv - has she got a job
Me- she's a waitress at TGI's
Tracy interjects and says welcome to TGI's what would you like?
Yv- has she got a boyfriend
Charles- yeah she does. His names James.
Paige interjects well how long have they been going out
Charles- for like two years
Cameron Flavien Nicholas- oh long time
Yv- yeah well
This is to introduce Tracy's character as Charlene; it was written by Charles Addae and I.
Nick did not want us to use the word abuse so instead we came up with words that were associated with pain. For example: hit, hurt etc...
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