Assessments
Who wants to be an Asylum-aire? 5% Due TBA
Adaption/Re-enactment with essay explanation 15% Due TBA
Asylum Leavers Newspaper (Become a journalist) 15% Due TBA
Act One Scene Three
These are from the film American Psycho. If Christian Bale was in Cosi what character would he play.
The Plot So Far.
Scene three.
- -Justin, the social worker has returned as a result of the fire chaos.
- -Justin stresses to Lewis that ‘this experiment was to bring them out of their shells, not to allow them to wreak havoc’ [pg 23].
- However, Cherry, exasperated by the idea, pretends that it was she who accidentally lit the fire by dropping a cigarette in the toilet.
- Everyone including Justin looks at Lewis for confirmation. Lewis agrees explaining, ‘that’s why [Cherry] spends so much time in the toilets when she should be at rehearsal. It’s where she smokes.’ Seemingly persuaded by the group, Justin informs Lewis that doing the play will be his best education yet.
- The group resumes practice. The actors become irritated at one another. Roy and Zac debate about playing a piano accordion in the overture while Cherry and Doug argue about the ‘deliberate’ [pg 25] fire.
- Once again, Ruth is preoccupied with the fake coffee, stating that ‘I can live with an illusion as long as I know it’s an illusion’ [pg 28]. Henry refuses to deliver his lines when it is his turn. Roy jumps at Henry, calling him a ‘failure’ [pg 27]
- Ruth obsesses over the number of steps she needs to take in order reach her position on stage. Zac comes back with a piano accordion, only to present Wagner, not Mozart. An incredulous Roy argues that they can’t play Wagner in a Mozart play, but Lewis allows it, convincing Roy that ‘people don’t really listen to overtures’ [pg 30].
- With everyone headed outside for a break, Lewis begins to read a newspaper edited by Nick and Lucy, yet notices that Julie is still inside. Julie jokes about how psychiatrists ‘don’t know how to deal with drug users’ [pg 32], that’s why she’s a ‘bit over the shop today.’
- She shares with Lewis that she was surprised that he came back after a day with the group. Lewis explains that his grandmother was in a mental institution once, and although she was mad, she was still his grandmother
- . Lewis states that Lucy is more interested in politics than love, believing that ‘love is the last gasp of bourgeois romanticism’ [pg 33]. Lewis also explains that she ‘hates me doing an opera about love and fidelity while thousands of Vietnamese are being killed by American troops.’
- Julie asks if Lucy sees other men, and while an amused Lewis denies the idea, Julie insists that women are just like men in that they are ‘flesh and blood.’ She goes on to assert that men have double standards since they see that women are disloyal, yet many men are exactly the same.
- Cherry enters with cake and Julie leaves with Lewis’ newspaper. Cherry divulges to Lewis that she has a flick-knife, in case Doug gets up to any mischief again.
- She admires Lewis’ translation of the play, that ‘Woman’s constancy is like the Phoenix of Arabia. Everyone swears it exists but no one’s seen it’ and declares that she could be loyal if she and Lewis were together. She stuffs Lewis with cake, choking him. Suddenly, they both smell kerosene, and when accompanied with Doug’s excited voice, ‘it’s burning like a beauty!’, Cherry pulls out her flick knife stating, ‘if there is anything worse than the wrath of God, it’s the wrath of Cherry’ [pg 35]
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