OCR A Level Drama and Theatre H459/42 Deconstructing Texts for Performance Cloud Nine. QUESTION PAPAERE AND MARKING SCHEME

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1 As a director, outline and explain your vision for directing the actors in this extract to bring out the playwright’s intentions. Annotate the script to show how you would do this. 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They make a lot of noise don’t they? Edward: I tell them to shut up and they shut up. I wouldn’t want to leave them at the moment. Gerry: Look why don’t we go for a meal some time? Edward: Yes I’d like that. Where are you living now? Gerry: Same place. Edward: I’ll come round for you tomorrow night about 7.30. Gerry: Great. EDWARD goes. HARRY comes. HARRY and GERRY pick each other up. They go off. BETTY comes back. Betty: No, the ice cream was my treat, Martin. Off you go. I’m going to have a quiet sit in the sun. MAUD comes. Maud: Let Mrs Saunders be a warning to you, Betty. I know what it is to be unprotected. Betty: But Mother, I have a job. I earn money. Maud: I know we have our little differences but I always want what is best for you. ELLEN comes. Ellen: Betty, what happens with a man? Betty: You just keep still. Ellen: And is it enjoyable? Don’t forget me, Betty. MAUD and ELLEN go. Betty: I used to think Clive was the one who liked sex. But then I found I missed it. I used to touch myself when I was very little, I thought I’d invented something wonderful. I used to do it to go to sleep with or to cheer myself up, and one day it was raining and I was under the kitchen table, and my mother saw me with my hand under my dress rubbing away, and she dragged me out so quickly I hit my head and it bled and I was sick, and nothing was said, and I never did it again till this year. 4 © OCR 2021 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 I thought if Clive wasn’t looking at me there wasn’t a person there. And one night in bed in my flat I was so frightened I started touching myself. I thought my hand might go through into space. I touched my face, it was there, my arm, my breast, and my hand went down where I thought it shouldn’t, and I thought well there is somebody there. It felt very sweet, it was a feeling from very long ago, it was very soft, just barely touching, and I felt myself gathering together more and more and I felt angry with Clive and angry with my mother and I went on and on defying them, and there was this vast feeling growing in me and all round me and they couldn’t stop me and no one could stop me and I was there and coming and coming. Afterwards I thought I’d betrayed Clive. My mother would kill me. But I felt triumphant because I was a separate person from them. And I cried because I didn’t want to be. But I don’t cry about it any more. Sometimes I do it three times in one night and it really is great fun. VICTORIA and LIN come in. Victoria: So I said to the professor, I don’t think this is an occasion for invoking the concept of structural causality – oh hello Mummy. Betty: I’m going to ask you a question, both of you. I have a little money from your grandmother. And the three of you are living in that tiny flat with two children. I wonder if we could get a house and all live in it together? It would give you more room. Victoria: But I’m going to Manchester anyway. Lin: We’d have a garden, Vicky. Betty: You do seem to have such fun all of you. Victoria: I don’t want to. Betty: I didn’t think you would. Lin: Come on, Vicky, she knows we sleep together, and Eddy. Betty: I think I’ve known for quite a while but I’m not sure. I don’t usually think 5 © OCR 2021 Turn over 105 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 about it, so I don’t know if I know about it or not. Victoria: I don’t want to live with my mother. Lin: Don’t think of her as your mother, think of her as Betty. Victoria: But she thinks of herself as my mother. Betty: I am your mother. Victoria: But Mummy we don’t even like each other. Betty: We might begin to. CATHY comes on howling with a nosebleed. Lin: Oh Cathy what happened? Betty: She’s been assaulted. Victoria: It’s a nosebleed. Cathy: Took my ice cream. Lin: Who did? Cathy: Took my money. MARTIN comes. Martin: Is everything all right? Lin: I thought you were looking after her. Cathy: They hit me. I can’t play. They said I’m a girl. Betty: Those dreadful boys, the gang, the Dead Hand. Martin: What do you mean you thought I was looking after her? Lin: Last I saw her she was with you getting an ice cream. It’s your afternoon. Martin: Then she went off to play. She goes off to play. You don’t keep an eye on her every minute. Lin: She doesn’t get beaten up when I’m looking after her. Cathy: Took my money. Martin: Why the hell should I look after your child anyway? I just want Tommy. Why should he live with you and Vicky all week? Lin: I don’t mind if you don’t want to look after her but don’t say you will and then this happens. 6 © OCR 2021 150 155 160 165 170 175 180 185 190 195 Victoria: When I get to Manchester everything’s going to be different anyway, Lin’s staying here, and you’re staying here, we’re all going to have to sit down and talk it through. Martin: I’d really enjoy that. Cathy: Hit me on the face. Lin: You were the one looking after her and look at her now, that’s all. Martin: I’ve had enough of you telling me. Lin: Yes you know it all. Martin: Now stop it. I work very hard at not being like this, I could do with some credit. Lin: OK you’re quite nice, try and enjoy it. Don’t make me sorry for you, Martin, it’s hard for me too. We’ve better things to do than quarrel. I’ve got to go and sort those little bastards out for a start. Where are they, Cathy? Cathy: Don’t kill them, Mum, hit them. Give them a nosebleed, Mum. LIN goes. Victoria: Tommy’s asleep in the pushchair. We’d better wake him up or he won’t sleep tonight. Martin: Sometimes I keep him up watching television till he falls asleep on the sofa so I can hold him. Come on, Cathy, we’ll get another ice cream. Cathy: Chocolate sauce and nuts. Victoria: Betty, would you like an ice cream? Betty: No thank you, the cold hurts my teeth, but what a nice thought, Vicky, thank you. VICTORIA goes. BETTY alone. GERRY comes. I think you used to be Edward’s flatmate. Gerry: You’re his mother. He’s talked about you. Betty: Well never mind children are always wrong about their parents. It’s a great problem knowing where to live and who to share with. I live by myself just now. 7 © OCR 2021 Turn over 200 205 210 215 220 225 230 235 240 245 Gerry: Good, so do I. You can do what you like. Betty: I don’t really know what I like. Gerry: You’ll soon find out. Betty: What do you like? Gerry: Waking up at four in the morning. Betty: I like listening to music in bed and sometimes for supper I just have a big piece of bread and dip it in very hot lime pickle. So you don’t get lonely by yourself? Perhaps you have a lot of visitors. I’ve been thinking I should have some visitors, I could give a little dinner party. Would you come? There wouldn’t just be bread and lime pickle. Gerry: Thank you very much. Betty: Or don’t wait to be asked to dinner. Just drop in informally. I’ll give you the address shall I? I don’t usually give strange men my address but then you’re not a strange man, you’re a friend of Edward’s. I suppose I seem a different generation to you but you are older than Edward. I was married for so many years it’s quite hard to know how to get acquainted. But if there isn’t a right way to do things you have to invent one. I always thought my mother was far too old to be attractive but when you get to an age yourself it feels quite different. Gerry: I think you could be quite attractive. Betty: If what? Gerry: If you stop worrying. Betty: I think when I do more about things I worry about them less. So perhaps you could help me do more. Gerry: I might be going to live with Edward again. Betty: That’s nice, but I’m rather surprised if he wants to share a flat. He’s rather involved with a young woman he lives with, or two young women, I don’t understand Edward but never mind. Gerry: I’m very involved with him. Betty: I think Edward did try to tell me once but I didn’t listen. So what I’m 8 © OCR 2021 250 255 260 265 270 being told now is that Edward is ‘gay’ is that right? And you are too. And I’ve been making rather a fool of myself. But Edward does also sleep with women. Gerry: He does, yes, I don’t. Betty: Well people always say it’s the mother’s fault but I don’t intend to start blaming myself. He seems perfectly happy. Gerry: I could still come and see you. Betty: So you could, yes. I’d like that. I’ve never tried to pick up a man before. Gerry: Not everyone’s gay. Betty: No, that’s lucky isn’t it. GERRY goes. CLIVE comes. Clive: You are not that sort of woman, Betty. I can’t believe you are. I can’t feel the same about you as I did. And Africa is to be Communist I suppose. I used to be proud to be British. There was a high ideal. I came out onto the verandah and looked at the stars. CLIVE goes. BETTY from Act One comes. BETTY and BETTY embrace [Show More]

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