I'm playing Margaret Thatcher. [I will be wearing a blue dressy suit thing and a wig that looks like hers]
Sarah, Zach, Finn and Holly are playing the miners and nurses and IRA terrorists.
It will start off with Sarah, Zach, Finn and Holly all standing in a line facing the audience, I will be behind them kneeling on the floor, Zach will begin with:
Zach. The Conservative Party have just won the 1975 election and Mrs Thatcher is going to give her speech.
They all start to chant:
All. Vote Thatcher.
They then begin to lower and I begin to rise slowly as they reach the floor they turn to face me, once I am up I read the speech Thatcher read out when she was elected. [Which is:]
Thatcher: To me it's like a dream that the next name in the
line Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath is Margaret Thatcher.
Each has brought his own style of leadership and stamp of greatness to the
task. I shall take on the work with humility and dedication. I'd like to say
“Thank you" for the trust and confidence my supporters have placed in me,
and a special thank you to Airey Neave and Bill Shelton and our splendid helpers
for their all-out effort on my behalf.
It is important to me that this prize has been won in open
electoral contest with four other potential leaders. I know that they'll be
disappointed, but I hope that we shall soon be back working together as colleagues
for the things in which we believe.
There is much to do and I hope you will allow me time to do
it thoughtfully and well.
Finally, I would like to pay tribute to the Chief Whip and
his staff and to Robert Carr for carrying on so magnificently during this
period of uncertainty.
After I say this, then I go back on to my knees very slowly
and Sarah, Zach, Finn and Holly rise very slowly with their back facing
the audience. They then begin one after another turning around once the other
person has said there political view of Thatcher. [Sorry but i can't
remember what they say but i will find out]
Thatcher. STOP...miners you shall mine no more, I cannot condemn it, but it must be done. [I then dance around them doing a remix of 'Money, Money, Money' my one goes like:] 'Miners, miners, miners. Must be funny, when I shut you down.'
I then go back into the same place I was before but Sarah, Zach, Finn and Holly start to walk around me protesting and shouting the words:
All. Down with Thatcher! [Over and over again]
When they have gone round once they one by one stop facing the audience and say something that is condemning Thatcher’s ways.
Once it is Holly's turn she says:
Holly. I have no choice i have to go back to work.
Then the rest of them chant:
All apart from Holly. Scab! Scab! Scab!
Then I stand up slowly and begin my speech about the IRA, as this is happening Finn and Zach are lying on the floor next to me and Holly and Sarah are the nurses treating them. [My speech will be related to the subject of the hunger strikes of 1981]
As I finish the speech Holly and Sarah start to interact with me and by calling me a murderer and they start to shout at me after a little bit of this i then lower myself onto my knees, Sarah and Holly get up and go to the front of the stage and they act out that they've got milk.
I then rise slowly and then morph into a beast and I take their milk and they go to the floor slowly then I end with the song 'Milky, milky, milky. Must be funny, when I take your milk.'
[This is just a draft we will be changing it don't worry]

This looks great, I can’t wait to see it! Can you print a script for me when you have finished please?
ReplyDeleteFurther to my other comment...can your group find a video clip on you tube that can be your backdrop. Something that links to your scene, news footage of the moments in your scene? I’ll start doing some editing for the powerpoint! Thanks! :)
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