Style of the piece

Melodramatic
Brechtian style in Nightmare scene along with stylised movement and sound collage
Breaking down 4th wall - with DAN from tom
Characters will morph from typical people to distorted images and stereotypes throughout the play.
Physical theatre, train noises, sound collage, newspapers, and crazy movement on train.
Naturalistic bursts - e.g.. seeing policemen or trustworthy people.

Aims / Objectives

Moral - don’t just a book by it’s covers
To show children how misconceptions and stereotypes can lead to people being wrongly accused, disrespected and targeted.

Structure

Scene 1 Father and son step onto the train
Son sees a police man and asks his father why he’s on the train
Father says that a wanted criminal may be on the train
Son falls asleep holding “curious incident” in his hands
Scene 2 Son has a nightmare - suspicions and curious thoughts
Scene 3 Son goes for a walk down the carriages , and sees an Asian man.
Slow motion is used throughout the scene to highlight the Son’s suspicions.
He follows him, and begins to suspect he may be a terrorist.
The Asian man has a monologue in which the audience are told of the way he is treated after the bombings, and how he has become a suspect just because of the way he looks.
He also meets a business woman.
He suspects she may be a secret agent working with the terrorist.
The business woman tells the audience about herself.
We see two clips of his imagination, as he begins to let his suspicions evolve.
Scene 4 Son leaves the two character and goes to the dining cart
Possible scene of stylised eating, as he sees another two characters.
He meets a homeless person, who he suspects of being a drunk and a thief.
The homeless man has a dialogue with the “chav” in which the audience are made aware of the hardship he endures everyday.
Son meets a “chav” and links him to the secret agent.
He now believes the “chav“, business woman, homeless man and Asian of being wanted criminals.
He seeks to tell his father his discovery.
Scene 5 Son finds his father and tells him what he suspects.
As he relates his story there is a re-enactment of his imagination.
The father appears disinterested so the son continues his struggle alone.
Scene 6 Son finds all the suspects together and decides to accuse them.
His paranoia and judgement of the characters climaxes in a stylised, physical theatre based scene.
He begins to realise he may be wrong.
Scene 7 The policeman is called for.
The Father speaks to his son about what happens if we jump to conclusions.
It is explained that the criminal has already been detained and none of the people that the son accused were criminals at all.
The Father tells the son that he should never judge a book by it’s cover.


Contract for Drama

We promise to :

Turn up to lessons
To not mess around
Turn up to rehearsals prepared
Put in lots of effort
Listen to all ideas
Come to an understanding