Poor old Jarrett

Tuesday’s rehearsals was starting to play more with Jarrett’s physicality and how drunk he actually is by this stage.

This opened out more character options for Simon and Matt as Hanson then starts to become slightly annoyed with Jarrett’s constant drinking. We spoke about the fact that Hanson up till now has probably always knew that Jarrett drunk too much but as he was his friend never really send anything. It’s only when Hanson really starts to examine himself and his friends that he realises that they are wrong.

Simon has started to use the drink as a reason why he becomes more and more irrational in the scene once Ellis has left. Drinking more and more whiskey and steadily becoming more and more inebriated.

McQueen starts off quite gently on Jarrett slowly working his way into him. But the defining moment of the scene is when McQueen is beaten quite badly by Jarrett and McQueen becomes more annoyed with Jarrett and decides to finish him off with the truth. We think Ellis’s exit is bad. But Jarrett is completely reduced to crying on the bed not being able to move.

Simon has been asked to look again at the script and to look at moments where Jarrett’s drunkenness slowly starts to occur. I want Simon to really have a natural progression into the later part of the scene where he is violent, drunk and angry.

We still like McQueen though because he’s forcing Jarrett to see his failings and making Hanson also realise where he’s gone wrong. We’re almost thanking McQueen for helping these men. Though the circumstances are quite distressing.

This sets up a great 2nd Act for the next scene between McQueen and Hanson.

And the next bombshell…