Patience Script

Scripted Space
Grace-Marie Brunken

1.The space will be on a city bus. A teenage boy and girl are going to have an argument, and the boy will get physical with the female. Ex the male will grab the female’s arm violently and drag her to another seat. The couple will be fighting about something mundane that turns into a bigger situation about the female flirting with other guys. This is when the young man will violently pull the girl to another seat away from other passengers and the young girl will begin to cry. There will also be another actor on the bus who may get up and tell the young man to calm down.

2. The program of being a passenger on a city bus. Most passengers try to mind their own business and ignore whatever else is going on in that space. People are mostly interested in themselves. There is also the program of where one decides to sit on a bus, next to other passengers or far away from them. Another program that will be very important in this script is that fact that a city bus is such a small space. Passengers will not be able to ignore the fight that is going on, especially if the actors make it loud. There is also the program of being a stranger and witnessing something that is wrong. Some people may stand up and try to stop the violence, which others may sit and try to ignore the situation all together. But because this script will be performed in such a small, closed in space, viewers will be forced into the story and will create their own ending to the situation. There can also be the program of when someone stands up to help, what do the other people do? Will they also stand up, or will they continue to ignore the situation?

3. Potential Inhabited Narrative #1: The couple will fight and the male becomes violent, throwing the female around the bus and slapping her face. A passenger may pull the male to the side and tell him how wrong it is to hit women while another passenger consoles the young girl and tells her to leave the male.
Potential Inhabited Narrative #2: The couple fights and the male starts calling the
female a slut/whore/skank and telling her she isn’t worth anything. Passengers may
watch the fight, but no one stands up for the girl. Once the male exits the bus,
passengers console the female who is crying.
Potential Inhabited Narrative #3: The couple fights and gets loud. The male grabs the
female and pulls her viscously to a different seat while cursing and calling her crude
names. A passenger gets up and tells the young man to leave the girl alone.

4.

Listening 1-5

Theme
The stressful journey to a destination can lead to unforeseen stress at your destination.

Premise
Lillian, a 23 year old aspiring actress, is on her way to an audition. She is using google maps to arrive to her destination in Hollywood. She has an audition for a role on a TV show. She is unaware that one of her ‘model’ frenemies is also headed to the same audition. Lillian and Adrianna were once best friends, but once they started competing for the same roles they both grew to despise the other. They hadn’t seen or spoken the each other for five years,

Program
The unwritten rules of driving. How one acts when reading directions while driving. How one acts while driving when frustrated. How one acts when having missed a turn on directions. The rules of driving on the street and freeway. The rules of seeing someone you hate and pretending you don’t want to rip their head off.

Treatment
The story starts with Lillian sitting at her home computer. She types in the address of her destination. Lillian clicks on get directions, then she types in her homes address into the “A” line and presses enter. The directions come up. Two hours and zero minutes. Lillian presses the print button. Lillian takes the directions and runs to her car, if she hits traffic she will become late. Lillian gets onto the freeway safely without having to look at the directions. Twenty miles into her journeys she’s strolling on the freeway, she see’s flashing red and blue lights and proceeds to pull over. Lillian has a short conversation with the cop as he tells her he’s writing her a fix-it ticket for the window tinting on her vehicle. Lillian is upset but refuses to let it get her down. She needs to focus on doing well at her audition. She shoves the ticket in her middle console angrily and pulls back onto the freeway. Eighty more miles to go. When Lillian has fifty miles left her phone rings. It’s her boyfriend, Caleb. Lillian and Caleb talk about the audition she is driving to. Caleb tells Lillian to be careful while driving in Hollywood because he knows how she is with driving and looking at directions simultaneously. She tells him not to worry and they hang up the phone. Lillian then reaches to her directions laying in the passenger seat. She glances down at them to see what exit she has to look for and when she glances up she see’s the car in front of her much closer with it’s break lights on. Lillian slams on the breaks just in time for the car in front of her to speed up. She exits onto the 101 freeway and continues to try and find her exit.
(In a different part of a different city an hour and a half later.) Adriana enters the address of her destination onto her iphone. Thirty-six minutes. She starts up her car and drives to her destination. The song playing on the radio is “Alien” by Katy Perry. (In a split screen Adriana is shown driving at the same time that Lillian is driving.) Adriana is shown glancing at the directions on her phone while sitting straight up to make it look as it she is not looking at her phone.
Lillian finds her exit and scans through the radio channels. She stops at “Alien” by Katy Perry. Lillian exits the freeway and continues onto the busy, bumpy streets of Hollywood. While looking at her directions she suddenly realizes she is in a right turn lane only. The street is too busy for her to switch lanes so she decides she will just turn around after she’s been forced to make the right turn.
Adriana misses a turn because she was unsure if the GPS dot was correct on her phone.
Lillian finally finds a light where she can make a u-turn. Lillian makes the turn back onto the street she had accidentally turned off of. She feels relieved that she is finally close to her destination.
Adriana turns around.
Lillian finds the building and pulls in to the parking lot. Somehow she has made it just in time. She exits her car and walks towards the building to the doors and enters.
Adriana pulls into the parking lot and turns off her car. She sits in her car for a minute to reapply makeup in the mirror.
Lillian speaks with the receptionist and is told to go find a seat next to the other three girls that have already arrived.
Adriana locks her car, enters the building and speaks to the receptionist.
Lillian hears a familiar voice but does not look up from the text message she is reading on her phone.
Adriana enters the room with her head held high and sits down. Her phone rings and she reaches to see who it is.
Lillian looks up just in time for Adriana to look at her and they catch eyes. Adriana gives Lillian a stuck up I’m-better-than-you smirk.
Lillian replies nonverbally with an eye roll.


Composites
1.) Lillian shuts her phone and concentrates on driving. She realizes she has forgotten what exit she will be looking for she takes her left hand off the steering wheel and reaches for the set of directions sitting on the passenger seat. She quickly turns her head to get a visual on where they are and grabs them. Lillian holds them up close to the steering wheel. She takes her eyes off of the road for a moment to find the next step in her directions. She glances back to the road to see that the car in front of her is much close than it was before and has its break lights on. Lillian slams on the breaks and her body fills with adrenaline.
2.)Lillian smiles and tells the receptionist, “I’m here to audition for a role on Gossip Girl.” The receptionist chews on her gum and responds by telling her to go to room 6 and take a seat with all the other girls. Lillian nods her head, thanks the receptionist and continues to room 6 where the receptionist had pointed. Lillian sits down, reminds herself to sit up straight, crosses her ankles and pulls out her cell phone to find a text message from Caleb saying “Good Luck”. She smiles and hears a familiar ring tone. She glances up only to see Adriana. Adriana catches Lillian’s glance and smirks as she thinks to herself, “She has no chance”. Lillian returns the smirk but rolls her eyes to say, “hi to you to, bitch”.

Following 1-5

Theme

Trusting strangers with information about your life can lead to dangerous, scary happenings

Premise

Erin, a newly 21 year old girl, drunkenly meets a boy, Nathaniel, at a bar and gives him too much information about her life. The friendship fades and Erin begins to find Nathaniel eerie.

Program

How to act in a bar. How to be weary of people you just meet. Trusting strangers at a bar.

Treatment

It was Erin’s 21st birthday and she was going out with her girlfriends to a country club called Rawhide. She is the last of her group of friends to turn 21. A couple hours into the night Erin is feeling pretty buzzed and warm. She is line dancing to a song and catches eyes with a blonde haired, buzz cut, blue eyed boy. They giggle and flirt with their eyes as if they were dancing together, but not together. Erin’s best friend, Roxy, urges Erin to go talk to him. But Erin will not make the first move. After countless more strong drinks, flirtatious glances and smiles, the mystery man finally introduces himself as Nathaniel. Erin slow dances with him and he starts asking her questions about herself. He starts off asking the basic questions, where she is from, what she does, ect. But as he goes on, the questions become more absurd. He asks her exactly where she works and when she’ll be working next. Erin just drunkenly laughs it off. The night ends and Nathaniel and Erin exchange numbers.

The next morning Erin remembers little from the night before. She calls Roxy to ask her what happened. Roxy recalls Nathaniel and says they exchanged phone numbers and they were texting each other on the whole ride home. Erin goes through her text messages from the night before to see that Nathaniel had asked her some very detailed questions about her family, friends, work and school. Erin brushes it off and they only talk a few times during the week. Erin has decided she is not really that interested in him.

A few weeks later, Erin and her friends go out to the same country club again. By this time she had told Nathaniel she was not interested in being his friend at all. While dancing at the club with her friends, she sees Nathaniel. Erin turns away and tells her friends that he is there. Roxy watches Nathaniel as he stares at Erin from across the dance floor. His eyes follow Erin, and Roxy’s eyes follow Nathaniels. Roxy tells Erin and Erin gets an eerie feeling, but continues to avoid Nathaniel and have a good time.

After a few more drinks Erin is dancing with her girls during the half hour hip hop. She notices Nathaniel staring again and turns the opposite way and continues to dance. When she glances back at him, she realizes he is coming near her. She continues to ignore him until she gets shoulder checked from behind. She notices it’s Nathaniel and continues to ignore him and chats about how creepy it is with her friends. Then a few minutes later he walks by her again, but this time he sticks his nose in her hair and takes a big whiff. She thinks about telling her security guard friend that she wants him kicked out. But she decides against it because it’s a public club and she feels it would be kind of rude. Erin and he friends leave that night talking about the next time they want to go. They decide on the next weekend.

That week Erin receives text messages from Nathaniel asking her why she is ignoring him and what he did to deserve this treatment. Erin continues to ignore and delete the text messages. As Erin leaves for work that week he texts her asking her where she is going. Erin ignores his text and gets creeped out. She is starting to wonder if he is following her. She calls Roxy and jokingly tells her that if something happens and she ends up disappearing or in a ditch, that they will know exactly who it is. After she gets off the phone with Roxy, she receives another text from Nathaniel. This time it is asking her why she thinks he would ever do anything like that to her. Erin tells Roxy, and Roxy asks her to please call the police. Erin decides against calling the police. Instead she just let’s the situation slide. She believe that if she keeps ignoring him, he will go away.

Later that evening while Erin is at her work, a retail store in a mall, she is putting away some clothes and recognizes a tall, buzz cut, blonde haired boy. She starts to get very nervous, but the guy turns around and it is not Nathaniel. Erin is relieved. Two hours into her work shift she goes behind the store to take a little break. It is dark in the little alley way, and there is a guy about 100 feet away from her smoking a cigarette against a dumpster. He is wearing a uniform and obviously works at one of the other retail stores. Erin is busy looking at the brightness of the phone and when she looks up again the guy is gone. Someone comes out of a door near her and it startles her. Erin is very on edge. A man comes around the corner and grabs her wrist and puts his hand over her mouth. It’s Nathaniel. Erin tries to scream, but the sound isn’t resonating like it should. She struggles to get out of his grip. Nathaniel tells her to calm down and that he won’t do anything to hurt her. All he wants is a little kiss. He takes his hand off her mouth and forces her to kiss him. Just then, the guy who was smoking a cigarette comes running up and tears Nathaniel off of Erin and throws him to the floor. Erin immediately starts crying as the random stranger yells as Nathaniel and threatens to beat him to a bloody pulp if he doesn’t disappear. Nathaniel runs off. The stranger asks Erin if she’s ok as he’s dialing 911. Erin is crying, but she says she is alright.

The police come and get a profile on Nathaniel. They find him a few blocks away and arrest him.

Behavioral Composite

1. ERIN is talking with ROXY as they are leaning up against a high table sipping on their strong alcoholic drinks. ERIN is looking at ROXY but glances over to catch eyes with the cute blonde boy she had been flirting with on the dance floor just moments before. ROXY tells ERIN to just go introduce herself, but ERIN refuses and says if he’s interested he will come talk to her. As the girls are having this conversation, the myster boy starts to walk towards ERIN and ROXY. ERIN sees this and glances away to act as if she didn’t see him. Suddenly he is right next to her.

ERIN smiles as he turns to ERIN and introduces himself, “Hi, I’m Nathaniel. What’s your pretty little name?”

ERIN tries to hide it, but she shows a micro expression of disgust. She hates the name NATHANIEL. But then smiles and giggles as she tells him her name, “I’m Erin” she says as she takes another sip of her drink.

“Well, I think Gorgeous is a better name for your pretty little face.” ERIN giggles and looks away. She is blushing now. “What are you drinking? Let me buy you another drink.”

2. ERIN is dancing with her group of friends to a hip hop song. Her eyes scan the dance floor and she sees NATHANIEL staring her down. She avoids eye contact and does a little twist to turn the opposing way and continues to dance. She glances at ROXY to let her know NATHANIEL was staring again. ROXY gives her a look of disgust and turns to see if NATHANIEL is still there. NATHANIEL has disappeared. Suddenly ERIN feels a man rub up behind her, notices a head in her hair and hears someone taking a long breathe in. Once Erin realizes that it was NATHANIEL who had just walked by and sniffed her hair, she freaks out and pulls ROXY to the bathroom to talk about it.

Gathering Script

Theme

Being overly inebriated at a gathering leads to fights in a relationship

Premise

Sophie and Garrett are a young couple on vacation with a few friends in Havasu City drinking and partying on a plantain boat in a cove. The group has been partying on the boat for around 3 hours and many of the guys have been drinking consistently since the moment they set anchor. Sophie and Gavin are sitting at the back of the boat fighting as it is speeding back to the camp grounds. Gavin is extremely drunk and Sophie is extremely mad.

Program

When partying and drinking in Havasu, a man who is engaged should not get extremely drunk and dance and flirt with other girls. These things cause issues in relationships because if the significant other has any ounce of jealousy in them, it will be expressed as anger. A man who is engaged should not be getting extremely drunk and hopping from boat to boat when he is not a good swimmer to begin with.

In relationships the two parties are supposed to be aware of each other’s feelings all the time. If the couple loves each other, they think of the other persons feelings before they act. When one person is under the influence of alcohol that person should make sure to not get too far gone. It is not fair to the significant other if the other gets disgustingly drunk because the drunk person does not know what they are doing.

Treatment

Sophie and Garrett are sitting on the back of a small speeding boat that is heading back to the groups camp grounds. They have outcast themselves from the others to make it feel like they are protected while having a serious fight. Just hours before they left the cove Garrett had gotten belligerently drunk as Sophie sat and watched Garrett flirt and dance with other girls completely unaware of Sophie’s glaring eyes. Sophie is very distraught and hurt because of the things she saw him doing. She had told him multiple times to lay off the beers, but his pressuring friends and strangers made sure there was a beer in his hand the entire time.

As the couple are on the boat ride back to camp Sophie refuses to speak to Garrett, until he eventually talks her into telling him why she is so upset. She tells him about how he is extremely drunk and she’d asked him to slow down multiple times. She tells him that she saw him flirting and dancing with other girls, when he won’t ever even dance with her. Garrett gets increasingly mad with every issue Sophie states. Garrett replys saying ‘it’s HAAAAAAAVVVVASUUUUUUUU, get drunk and loosen up”. This upsets Sophie even more and she adds in a few more issues as to why she is so upset.

Eventually the couple need to be separated for a short time so each of them can cool down before they start to talk about the issue again. When they are both ready to talk Garrett comes into the conversation with an extreme amount of remorse and guilt. The conversation ends on a mutual note as they arrive at the camp site, with Sophie and Garrett calming down a bit.

The conversation is started back up again in the security of their tent where Garrett and Sophie both cry over the situation and the guilt and hurt they are both feeling. Garrett then decides he needs to take a walk and sober up with his friend Andrew. He tells Sophie they won’t be long and they disappear. An hour later Sophie awake to hear Andrew climbing back into his tent and asks where Garrett is. Andrew replies telling her that Garrett is down at the beach still hanging out with a few of the guys. This upsets Sophie and she then cries herself to sleep again.

When Garrett finally arrives back to the campsite he is even more drunk than he was before he left. Sophie confronts him and asks why he didn’t come back when he said he would and he apologizes and said he was just hanging out and having fun. They continue to fight even more and Garrett decides to go behind the tent to make himself throw up the current alcohol in his stomach. This upsets Sophie even more and she is back to that hyperventilating cry again as Andrew and his girlfriend listen in the next tent over. Sophie just keeps asking, in between gasps for air, why he would ever do this to her?

Once they both calm down again, they lay down in the tent together with the tent door unzipped to let the air in. Sophie lays her head on Garrett’s chest to make sure she can always hear him breathing and she wakes up every few hours to poor some water in his mouth to try and keep him hydrated. The next morning they don’t go out to party on the boat with the rest of their friends.

Behavorial Composite

1.) GARRETT is sitting forward with his elbows on his legs and his face in his hands often roughly rubbing his blood shot, alcohol glazed eyes.

SOPHIE sits with her back in the corner of two converging cushioned seats. Her knees are up and tight against her body, her face beet red from the sun and her quick hyperventilating crying. She raises her hands to her tear ridden face to wipe them off.

(Everyone else on the boat is trying not to stare. Except one friend, ANDREW, sitting across from the couple who is layed back and watching the couple fight)

GARRETT starts to get angry. He rams his face closely to SOPHIE’S as he speaks fiercely in her face denying her accusations of flirting and dancing with other girls.

ANDREW is now sitting up straight very aware of the situation that could occur.

SOPHIE counters his fierce voice with an enraged throw of her hands and boldly tells GARRETT to back off and get out of her face.

GARRETT does not budge.

ANDREW then gets up quickly from his seat and calmly but firmly places his hand on GARRETT’S chest and tells the two to separate.

SOPHIE immediately moves away from GARRETT.

2.) SOPHIE slowly gets out of the tent to see what GARRETT is doing. She takes two steps and sits on the bench as she cries. She then hears GARRETT with his hand down his throat gagging trying to force himself to vomit all the alcohol he had consumed moments before arriving back at the tent.

SOPHIE leans on her knees with her hands in her face crying. She is rocking back and forth and in between sobs she asks why he’s done this to her over and over again.

GARRETT comes back around the tent and carefully sits next to SOPHIE.