Pre and Post Scripted Scenes

“The Suspect”

Last week we were given scripted scene work to do with a partner. we were given a whole bunch of different scripts to choose from and my partner and i saw one that caught our eye right away. The script was titled “The Suspect”. we skimmed and scammed through the dialogue going over each character. Person 1 was the detective and person 2 was the suspect. We both equally decided that my partner would play detective Dickerson and that i would play the suspect, Ms. Hansen.


Plot Summery:
“The Suspect” is about a wealthy business man who died mysteriously in a hotel while on a vacation, this man is Ms. Hansen's father. When Ms. Hansen’s father died his doctor claimed it was caused by a heart attack, but the FBI thought they would do some more research on his death on how the heart attack was caused, so an autopsy was done. During the autopsy they found out that Ms. Hansen’s father had traces of heart medicine in him but that did not make any sense because her father was a completely healthy man so things did not add up. Now, this is where detective Dickerson comes in. It is Dickerson’s job to find out who killed Ms. Hansen’s father and detective Dickerson believes there were two people involved in his murder, a man named Joseph Chambers and the victims daughter Ms. Hansen. Ms. Hansen gets accused of being an accomplice of her own fathers death and that’s were the story begins. The setting takes place in a interrogation room.


I found this scripted scene to be a lot of fun and for the first time i found it easy to memorize my lines. I thought it would be difficult to memorize the whole dialogue but it turns out it wasn’t, i even ended up remembering some of my partners lines. I would say the only challenging part in executing this scripted scene was trying to remember full frontal acting, nuances and having the right pauses. Other than that this scene was fun to do and i think my partner and I did a wonderful job but it is obvious we could of polished up some things in order to fulfill expectations and to go beyond our expectations.