It’s all Boxing and Cat & Mouse
The idea of McQueen following Hanson round the room to try to listen to him worked really well. We used this as a basis to then break-down the moments where this should happen more than other times.
McQueen needs to get Hanson to understand the situation fully for him to eventually go along with it. So he uses every trick in the book to goad him into agreeing with him.
We start the beginning of Act 2 with Hanson sitting CS looking like he is in control of the situation. Though the mistake is when McQueen speaks he has already started on the path which leads to Hanson’s doom. Obviously didn’t learn his lesson from the first half. Curiosity quite literally killing the cat. McQueen turns slightly panicked by the thought of Shelly and then brings the conversation down to eyes level by sitting on the bed opposite McQueen. There is no longer a status difference as McQueen takes over describing a Shelly that he knows Hanson will not what to hear or believe.
McQueen uses this shocking information to his advantage. Probing away at Hanson all the time. Offering up suggestions that again ensure he isn’t the guilty party. Playing on Hanson’s masculinity. Ensuring that Hanson feels as if he’s still the powerful one. We see max almost play on his shoulder as if he’s Hanson’s devil like conscience. There are some great moments where the audience see each of their brains ticking over as they look out of the room into the auditorium for answers.
He starts to compare his situation with people that are in far worse circumstances than him so as to ensure Hanson has no other choice but to agree with him. When he is confronted with it being his fault he deflects this onto the other people that are suffering. The audience don’t see it, but deep inside McQueen’s mind he knows exactly what he is doing.
I wanted to offer McQueen the one chance to really sound desperate with Hanson by shouting at him to sit down when it looks like Hanson is about to leave. To give a moment of real tension, whereby Hanson stays but doesn’t allow McQueen to completely get his own way by going to the fridge and then sitting on the bed rather than the chair ushered by McQueen. This creates a great stand-off moment where McQueen then cleverly brings it back down again to play off of Hanson wanting to feel like he’s still in control.
The phone call is almost a relief to McQueen as this really helps to hammer the last nail into the coffin. The voice of his wife on the end of the phone is too much for Hanson to bear and helps McQueen finally persuade him to get into the wardrobe. A happy coincidence that she has phoned? Possibly. But by this point Hanson wouldn’t have stayed if he wasn’t almost already sold into the idea.
The beginning of the end of poor old Hanson…
McQueen needs to get Hanson to understand the situation fully for him to eventually go along with it. So he uses every trick in the book to goad him into agreeing with him.
We start the beginning of Act 2 with Hanson sitting CS looking like he is in control of the situation. Though the mistake is when McQueen speaks he has already started on the path which leads to Hanson’s doom. Obviously didn’t learn his lesson from the first half. Curiosity quite literally killing the cat. McQueen turns slightly panicked by the thought of Shelly and then brings the conversation down to eyes level by sitting on the bed opposite McQueen. There is no longer a status difference as McQueen takes over describing a Shelly that he knows Hanson will not what to hear or believe.
McQueen uses this shocking information to his advantage. Probing away at Hanson all the time. Offering up suggestions that again ensure he isn’t the guilty party. Playing on Hanson’s masculinity. Ensuring that Hanson feels as if he’s still the powerful one. We see max almost play on his shoulder as if he’s Hanson’s devil like conscience. There are some great moments where the audience see each of their brains ticking over as they look out of the room into the auditorium for answers.
He starts to compare his situation with people that are in far worse circumstances than him so as to ensure Hanson has no other choice but to agree with him. When he is confronted with it being his fault he deflects this onto the other people that are suffering. The audience don’t see it, but deep inside McQueen’s mind he knows exactly what he is doing.
I wanted to offer McQueen the one chance to really sound desperate with Hanson by shouting at him to sit down when it looks like Hanson is about to leave. To give a moment of real tension, whereby Hanson stays but doesn’t allow McQueen to completely get his own way by going to the fridge and then sitting on the bed rather than the chair ushered by McQueen. This creates a great stand-off moment where McQueen then cleverly brings it back down again to play off of Hanson wanting to feel like he’s still in control.
The phone call is almost a relief to McQueen as this really helps to hammer the last nail into the coffin. The voice of his wife on the end of the phone is too much for Hanson to bear and helps McQueen finally persuade him to get into the wardrobe. A happy coincidence that she has phoned? Possibly. But by this point Hanson wouldn’t have stayed if he wasn’t almost already sold into the idea.
The beginning of the end of poor old Hanson…
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