The Rehearsal Page #2

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if overnight...

...everything...

...everything you owe

anything to...

(background chatter)

(sighing)

- Ah.

(laughter)

Stop.

(laughing)

You stay.

Stanley, is that you?

- Uh, do you have a spare tie?

- Uh, yep. Just come in.

Just on the back of the door.

He's so fresh.

(snickering)

- Where are you going?

- Uh, nowhere.

- Nowhere?

Mind if I come?

- Uh, yeah, okay.

- Alright, then.

- Hi!

Oh, sorry.

Uh, we met on the bus.

- Hey, look,

it was good talking to you.

Hey, wait.

- Sorry.

- Oh, sorry. I'm doing

an exercise for school.

- Cool. So you got in.

- Mm, I'm meant to be this dude,

Joe Pitt.

You know, Angels in America?

- Uh...

- Uh, Mormon, gay, uptight.

- Maybe they think

you're gay and uptight.

- Pfft. Probably.

- Are they watching you?

- Um, maybe, yeah.

It's an honesty system.

(chuckling)

I think I saw

your tennis club on TV.

- Yeah, my sister

had this weird thing

where she slept with her coach.

He's, like, 40.

And married.

- And he raped her?

- Did they say that?

- Oh. I don't know. Didn't they?

Look, I better go.

- Okay.

- Give me your phone.

Okay. See ya.

- Bye.

- You want me to come in?

- No. It's okay.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

- We're f***ed now.

- Hey, you going

to the counselling thing?

- I'd let him rape me.

- Oh, my God, that's gross.

Do you think he'll go to prison?

- He's probably

under house arrest.

- How could he do that?

- 'Cause he liked the risk.

It's like gambling.

Sleeping with a minor

is exciting,

because of what you have

to lose,

not what you have to win.

Which in Mr. Saladin's case,

is everything.

What do you think?

She's your sister.

- I was doing Joe Pitt,

but then I saw this...

person I know.

And she's kind of in trouble.

So then I told her

about the exercise

so she'd understand

why I was acting so strange.

- Why you telling me this?

- So that you'd respect me.

I think if someone's prepared

to say "I was wrong,"

isn't that better than lying?

- Do you feel better?

- No.

- I find it really telling

that you had total disregard

for the rules of the exercise.

It's just lazy.

Acting's hard work, Stanley.

- I know.

- Don't say "I know"

when you obviously don't,

or you wouldn't

have made that choice.

You have to earn my respect.

And you haven't.

- I think your classes

are amazing.

(laughter)

- Sergei Paradjanov.

Sentenced to hard labour

by the Soviets.

Pure genius.

(laughter)

(indistinct dialogue)

Oh, ah.

(laughter)

- This is why

I'm not at law school.

Another drink?

- She hates me.

- Who? Hannah?

It's impossible to know

what she's thinking.

- Dude, you're flying

under the radar.

It's not a bad thing.

(funk-rock music)

Have you guys seen...

have you guys seen a clip...

have you guys seen

The First Follower?

(music stops)

- No.

- It's a clip on YouTube.

Um, a bunch of these guys

lounging round on a hillside,

yeah?

And all of a sudden,

one guy gets up

and just starts

doing all these things,

these crazy moves, yeah?

And then another guy gets up,

and then another guy gets up.

And in less than three minutes,

everyone's up

and everyone's just dancing.

And it's this huge movement,

you know?

It's a movement.

- So...?

- Basically he's saying

leadership's overrated, yeah?

How do you start a movement?

Maybe it's having the balls

to follow someone else.

(man):
Three more.

Now we've got momentum.

This is the tipping point,

and now we've got a movement.

As more people jump in,

it's no longer risky.

If they were on the fence

before,

there's no reason

not to join in now.

(dance music)

- Talk to me, if you like,

to find out the context. But--

- Is this a good moment?

- Yeah. Come in.

- 'Morning, all.

(all):
Morning. Good morning.

- The end-of-year

devised theatre project

is the most important event

in the first-year calendar.

You will be completely

on your own.

When we sit in that theatre

on the 29th of November,

we want to feel surprised...

shocked.

I know that it is disgusting

to talk about this too much,

but we've had some success

with our devised pieces.

Some have become

full-blown productions.

They've toured all over Europe,

Japan.

Also... that night,

all going well,

I will announce the site

for our new theatre

on the waterfront.

- So are we judged individually,

or marked as a group?

- Individually.

- As a group.

(laughter)

- Can we pick our own groups?

- Group One:
Thomasin,

Oscar, Frankie,

Stanley, William.

You'll find your rehearsal

spaces on the maps.

Group Two:

Grace, Elliot, Marnie...

- Oh! Ooh!

(laughter)

(indistinct chatter)

- I reckon we should put,

like, a couch here.

- I keep thinking horses.

I don't know.

- Horses, no, yeah.

Write that down.

- And 12-year-old girls.

(laughter)

- Yep, 12-year-old girls.

We bring in an audience...

just of 12-year-old girls.

And, um... No, how about...

how about we...

Our real audience comes in

and they watch us do something

with that audience.

That's the thing.

- Athletes.

- What about them?

- Okay, so are we thinking

devices or, like, content?

- Sex.

- Um, no.

How about audience comes in,

the first thing we do,

round them up, take them

straight back out the door,

put them on a bus, and then

we just drive out somewhere.

- Where?

- Into the bush.

- Don't take this the wrong way,

but I feel like

maybe we're avoiding

actually doing the thing.

Like, shouldn't we do something

that's good enough

not to need--

- No, no, no, no.

I don't want to do something

that's good.

No, no, everyone's gonna

want to do something

that's good, right?

Because everyone wants

to be good and have sparkles.

- No, no, no. This is good.

Keep going.

- So we bring them in.

- Yeah.

- Um, we take their watches

and their phones,

and we put them on this bus,

and we drive out into the wild.

Then the thing is,

we just get lost.

And... and we're lost,

and no one knows where we are.

- Mm, yeah, we can't just take

people's watches.

- You can take people's watches.

Time... time is...

I think that time is the reason

why a lot of people in the world

are depressed.

- Come out.

I'm gonna wrestle you.

- Okay. No, we do have to think

about, like, agents and TV

people that are coming,

and we all want

to be seen as individuals,

and this is acting school

and this is a show.

- Okay, so audience comes in.

At the door,

we take away their phones.

And what we do

is we bury them.

We... we bury them.

(exclamations)

- You're a madman.

- It's in there.

- Maybe it'll catch on.

Now all we need

is a First Follower.

- What's that?

- Oh, yeah...

it's a thing.

- No! No! No!

(all screaming)

(laughter)

- Sushi Grande, thanks.

Hey, how far up

does that tattoo go?

- Are you done with these?

- Mm-hmm.

- So you like the course.

- Yeah.

- Oh, that's great.

Look forward to seeing you

on daytime telly.

I'm just teasing you, son.

Look, it'll be great.

A year from now,

you'll be a sensitive,

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