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Post by aswalwell on Apr 19, 2016 20:03:18 GMT
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Post by aswalwell on Apr 19, 2016 20:18:11 GMT
A Bold Girls plot summary - detailed but I apologise for all the typo - written on an I Pad which I type very badly on!
Scene 1
Stage directions establish Marie's house as a busy family house, furniture bald with age but hearth gleaming clean
Characters established quickly - Marie cleaning and offering food / Cassie being cheeky and outspoken about the dropped knickers and getting Marie's son not to drink the re syrup / Nora talking about laundry and making judgemental comments about the character in 'the accused'/
Nora and Cassie's relationship established through argument about the lino and the cigarettes/ through Nora being shocked by the way Cassie talks to Marie about Michael
Importance of Michael established through the stage directions -his photo on the wall- and through references to Marie still being in mourning.
Marie mentions having seen a young girl in a white dress outside the window
An explosion is heard outside and there is ongoing discussion of what it could be
Cassie hides a wad of money behind the photo of Michael.
Deirdre speaks in soliloquies from outside the house in the first part of the scene. She speaks in dark, violent language.
Marie tells the story of her wedding day in a monologue
Cassie reveals her plan to eat only a grapefruit so she can get drunk without having too many calories
The women are terrified when there is a knock at the door. It Is Deirdre. Her limbs area scratched, her make up smudged. She resists answering the women's questions about herself and then takes herself off for a shower without asking. The women continue trying to find out what is happening outside in Belfast.
Deirdre's soliloquy about the knife- establishes the connection between the knife and truth
Nora and Cassie relate the story of the night Joe was arrested and Nora tried to stand up it the soldiers but was knocked into the hedge
We hear hints about what happened to Michael and Marie talks about telling her sons what a good man he was.
Cassie talks of what a good man her father is, but we have just heard hints of what the family life was like = how he had a temper but how Cassie sees Nora as at fault - the fried egg.
The scene ends with Marie talking about why she likes the pigeons and about the missing men who are dead or in jail. Makes clear what a difficult time and places in history this is. Deirdre comes out dressed in Marie's clothes and steals Cassie's money
Scene 2
The club- a community warehouse "jazzed up".
The scene begins with a minute silence for a youngster who has been killed. The women discuss minute silences, including the one held for Michael (Nora and Cassie discuss this when Marie goes to the bar, they recall Marie's reaction to losing Michael, locking herself away and not telling the others)
Nora tells the silly story of the bet between Sean and Michael, where Sean won Michael's car by a silly prank.
The women start to get mournful, but Cassie jokes them out of it.
Nora criticises Cassie for her dress attracting the attention of men in the club (although the stage directions have told us the dress isn't very revealing)
Marie is dragged up to play the price is right, while Cassie and Nora continue to bicker about Cassie's behaviours and about rumours Nora has heard. Cassie hits back by hinting that Nora always treated her brother Martin better than she treated her.
Deirdre is the waitress and appears to be dressed in Marie's clothing .
Cassie delivers a soliloquy on the way Nora treated boys and girls differently
Nora tells a rather judgemental story about a neighbour asking her for help when her husband was arrested. Nora tells her to clean and paint her house instead!
Nora tells the story about her bamboo suite being ruined when the British soldiers chased a fugitive through her living room.
Cassie is bored with the story and more interested in singing and dancing. Nora is mortified by Cassie making an exhibition of herself.
Marie joins cassie on the dance floor to try and calm things down. Cassie admits that she can't stand her husband, Joe, and is physically repelled by him. She dreads him being released from jail.
Th doors are flung open and the stage bathed in "hard white light". The police raid the club searching everyone. Throughout the raid, Deirdre delivers a soliloquy which we hear in pieces above a the others talking. She talks about fire, explosions, burning cars, the town being a prison she wants to "smash chunks off the walls" of.
The women try to put a brave face on things, with Nora explaining how she poured a drink into one of the police women's shoe, but the dialogue and stage directions reveal that both Nora and Cassie are shaking.
Deirdre serves the women drinks and enrages Cassie by referring to having seen her in a car with a man
The women decide to leave and the scene ends with Nora's "I could talk so it'd burn the wee hairs out your nose. I could. But will you tell me what the use is in talking?" Soliloquy.
Scene 3
Cassie and Marie sit on the ground outside the club. Marie asks Cassie why she attacked Deirdre. After trying to ignore the question for a moment, Cassie complains that Deirdre was spying on her but says she hasn't been seeing anyone. Marie admits she wouldn't blame her if so as Joe has had many affairs.
Marie talks again about how she trusted Michael, seeing him As different from the other men.
This provokes Cassie into talking about how she wants to leave. She explains how she collected her £200 (having a dig at Nora while doing so) and how she plans to leave with it, even though she knows she doesn't really have enough.
Marie tries to talk sense into her and Cassie finally says that she couldn't leave her children.
Once Marie and Cassie have exited, Deirdre appears, rifles through a pile of handbags, stealing what she wants. She finds a knife and, in a frenzy, rips up Nora's fabric.
Scene 4
This scene returns to Marie's house
A drunken Cassie sits muttering about how she would kill her husband. Marie makes sandwiches. Nora is irritated with Cassie and thinks Cassie has no right to complain.
Nora presses the point that she had it worse due to SEan's violence against her. Cassie argues that it was Nora's fault and we really start to understand the problems in their relationship.
Cassie also hints that a fight between Sean and Martin caused Sean to die because he had a weak heart.
Nora talks of how Cassie blamed and hated her for provoking Sean. Cassie finally admits that she wanted Nora to make things different. Nora replies that Cassie would have to live somewhere different then, meaning that Sean's behaviour was part of the circumstances in which they all lived.
Cassie tells Nora about her money and escape plan but when she goes to get the money, she discovers it is gone and collapses.
Nora accuses Cassie of daydreaming and telling wild tales, she bemoans the loss of her fabric but decides to buy more the next day. Nora exits the play.
Cassie says "mummy's heart is made of steel. She's had to grow it that way." Recognising that Nora has grown tough to cope with her problems
Cassie starts almost provoking Marie, asking her what she has to smile about, mocking her warm comments about Michael and saying that all men are the same.
Cassie reveals that she had an affair with Michael.
Marie orders Cassie out of her house, throwing things at her too. She screams "in pain and loss"
Deirdre enters with her knife. She tells Marie she believes Michael was her father and she knew about Cassie and Michael. Deirdre continues to press Marie until she snaps, grabs the knife and slashes up Michael's photo.
This is the climax of the play and immediately after this, Marie seems to recover. She cleans up the mess and becomes concerned for Deirdre, asking her about her bruises and putting a blanket over her.
Marie tells Deirdre about "daddys" and how they are abandon their women one way or another because they are all hurt themselves. She also talks about how this stops men and women communicating well too.
It is revealed that Deirdre is Michaels daughter and that Michael was having an affair even in the year Marie married him.
The play ends with Marie feeding the birds and putting the kettle on.
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Post by aswalwell on May 4, 2016 8:47:39 GMT
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pearl quotes.docx (15.92 KB) Again, you should have this but you never know...  A ninja, for no other reason than that there's a button for one...
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