At this point I have the bones of a show, but the most important part, obviously is the flesh. So to start off –

 

Cody (me) will come out before the show and express my worries about offending people but that if you do find a comedy about death offensive then you may want to leave before I come out of a coffin to Queen’s I Want to Break Free.

The lights fade to the ending of Nikki and Chloe’s recording (the part about Dominos) then a green spotlight on the coffin and I Want to Break Free plays, I come out of the coffin, eating pizza, then I get out and dance before stopping the music. As a character, different to the Cody seen before, begins to speak the monologue about being in hospital with Pneumonia. Then the T.V in this flat setting turns on and my mum and dad’s conversation about my illness comes on as I sit on the settee eating an Easter Egg.

Laughing With by Regina Spektor plays as the flat becomes a train station. The song fades and the tanoid announcement plays, throughout this scene/sketch I will play three businessmen using the coffin as a bench. One man will read the Joyce Vincent article, another will tell a story about an old man who used to give him Werther’s Originals on the way to school and the third will worry about his own fear of being forgotten.

Army Dreamers by Kate Bush will lead into the final sketch about wanting to leave behind a legacy, I am stuck at the moment on what this scene will entail.

The reason I have set the show in a flat is to show someone’s personal space, the idea is that this character (I think I will call it that from now on) is coming to terms with all of the things he is scared of about leaving, the coffin isn’t really there? I will move it off stage as Kate Bush plays and it will be just me and the flat. I will end the show by mirroring the beginning of the show by dancing this time to Dance me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen before getting back into the coffin. Then blackout and the music will play as the audience leave.

With I Want to Break Free I will dance almost to the audience. But to Dance me to the End of Love I will dance alone and be alone on stage.