The scene shows Unis who is playing a poor, homeless young man who desperately needs to find any kind of job, myself playing a belittling, cold and arrogant receptionist who does not care for the young mans welfare at all, and Greta who is playing another receptionist who has a slightly different persona to my character. She is as well no help at all to the young man but she is much more polite than my character is, but she still does not care for his situation.
We developed this idea buy trying to picture just how hard it could be for a homeless young man looking for work back in the early 90's, our research told us that poverty in America in the early 90's was a major problem yet the government and the rich did not do much to help people in need and they were seen as 'the bottom of the food chain'. Therefore my group and I wanted to portray just how nasty and corrupt 'upper class' people were about the seriousness of unemployment and homelessness.
This scene links with our song lyric as the song itself is all about poverty, corruption, money, power and American government.
Our scene projects to the audience the stimulus to 'Money don't matter tonight'
We feel that the song is trying to get a message across to the public just how corrupt society is and America's obsession with money, social status and hierarchy. Our scene definitely portrays social status to the audience, as myself and Greta are very condescending and patronising to the young man and try to maintain the upper hand and look down our noses at him. We believe that this is a precise example of how American society was to people of lower status in the early 90's.
The next thing we want to work on is our monologues. We all have a basic idea of the characteristics of who we will be playing, but we need to develop their personalities and their background information i.e- where they came from, why are their lifestyles the way they are now.
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