Falt ex 1

They say that the sea is worse. Than the forest. The rivers. The fields. Than that forest. The beaches. That the beaches are worse. That you can’t make it, that you´re washed ashore. That the bodies swell up in the water in the sun and the gases inside the body explode the body. That no one is allowed to take up the dead bodies. That the dead bodies. Explode in the heat water out there on the sea. They say so. I may have said so. I have on television. How they that they are forbidden to help. I don´t know./

CHAPTER 5.5.1 - 5.5.4

8 Aug.

Jörgen and Linda work. Find a solution for the first scene, how it can be done. Linda is initially a narrator, then she takes the role of The young man. The rest will be pre-recorded. Uncertain if it will work.

11 August

J & L go through their ideas with me.

We have to start by recording the voices that will be pre-recorded so I that put them on the computer.

Must also structure the text so we can trace, each line get numbered.

12 August

I edit all the recorded lines, fix the sound. Takes a while.

Jörgen rigs the video. Some text lines are projected, some of the characters that is.

We make a first test. Put out the lights. Run a few video-files, projected texts. I add sounds as background and reinforcement.

Linda sits first at the table, reads as a narrator. Later she goes up on the floor, she is the young man, aggressive. Lines that are answered by The young woman that is pre-recorded. Immediately a dialogue emerge. It works!

And directly we hear how well it works by overlaying the texts and the situations. Linda’s dialogue gets through sounds and voices. Interesting.

(Diary August 2014)

EXAMPLE 5.5.2. Video: Rehearsal, sections of part I

EXAMPLE 5.5.3. Video: Corresponding sections of part I in the performance

The young woman

We have no money. We need to pay the rent. How else are we gonna make it if I don´t get a job?

The young man

I´ll find a job. Then you don´t have to work anymore. I'll take care of you. I´m a man. It's my job.

The young woman

You´ll never get a job as long as you.

The young man

As long as I what?

The young woman

Nothing.

The young man

What the hell are you talking about? Why are you saying things like that?

The young man

You´re such a fucking cunt.

The young woman

No, I´m not.

The young man

Yes, you are. You're such a fucking cunt. Why the fuck can´t you believe that I can achieve anything in my fucking life, is it so fucking much to ask for?

EXAMPLE 5.5.4. Video: end of part I

The mother

Try to sleep. Here. You have your toys here. Make sure they can sleep. This little horse must also sleep.

The young girl

Can´t you sleep with me?

The mother

I can´t. You know that. You´ll get sick if you sleep with me. There is no danger. You need to sleep.

The young man

What´s wrong with me?

The author

The world. The story of the world. The story about me. Me.

The young man

Answer me!

The author

Me. Me. My story. My freedom. My rights.

The young man

What´s wrong with me?

The man

You must run across the field. You must run and if you fall you have to get up and keep on running, even if you hurt yourself or if you're all bloody and your bones are broken you have to get up and keep on running. When you have left the woods and start running across the field they will try to find you and if they see you they will shoot you. You must run across the field. You must run and if you fall you have to get up and keep on running, even if you hurt yourself or if you're all bloody and your bones are broken you have to get up and keep on running. When you have left the woods and start running across the field they will try to find you and if they see you they will shoot you.

The father

I´m nothing. No one. I´m nothing. I´m nothing. I´m nothing. I live in a different world. They could as well have shot me. There is no difference between this hell or any other hell.

The man

It's your only chance. Do you want some?