Thursday, September 8, 2016

Ideas for 'The Hit List'

For this I want it to be very minimalistic because I want to focus on the emotion and the stressed out behavior of my character. I will be sitting in a chair talking out to my friend, by my locker, cleaning it out and ranting as I talk to him, the locker will be played by one of the blocks in the black box. My character's name is Tony, he is 17 and he is depressed and has social issues clearly and he writes his thoughts down in his notebook, which is basically going to be played by...yeah...a notebook.  When Tony gets angry he does one of two things, he locks himself in a room and sits in a corner or lashes out at people, he has one friend, Jake who has been his friend since they were kids and have a lot of the same classes. The girl he is griping about, Kirsten, started talking to him in his English class and he talked back until she started flirting and leading him on and then when he asked her out she said that she wasn't interested in him like that.  He has managed to keep his emotional problems hidden from his parents so this comes as a surprise to them. When he first goes to the therapist, the therapist shows him photocopies of the thing he has written which makes him mad because he wanted them to be private, he tell the therapist to get rid of them and he says he cannot, after talking for a while, Tony finally snaps and starts yelling and screaming at the therapist and telling him to stop accusing him of stuff and that everyone took what he said to Kirsten the wrong way and that he meant she would get emotionally hurt, not physically. What they don't know about Tony is that he is so angry and upset because he is bullied in school, this causes his grades to suffer and thats why his teachers are always cross with him and this makes him upset and he cannot control his anger sometimes so he either writes it in his journal or lashes out at others. He will basically look the same as me and I will try and act depressed, anxious and upset as possible. My objective really is to basically put a sense of sadness/thoughtfulness into the audience and to in a way make them pity me because in reality I didn't actually do anything wrong. I will probably just have it take place in the middle of a school day, during a class where I'm clearing out my locker quietly and talking to my friend who is on a free period right after I have been notified that I am probably going to be suspended and that I should clear my locker because they found my notebook that they thought was threatening.

1 comment:

  1. Talk more about how/why he has social issues. What has he experienced in his past? Is he seeing a therapist or talking to anyone about it? What do his parents say? Do they know? Does he have any friends? Does he want friends? What does he do when he gets angry? Go into more specifics of this character. Add more details.

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