Here you can view some drafts of our original devised scenes for our piece.
Running order: This is the draft running order of scenes created during the script devising.
- Death Bed, writing Woyzeck while Minna worries.
- SLIDESHOW: Old projector style photo slide show depicting the early years of Buchner.
- Engagement party, with Minna and 2 student friends, go into conversation about human rights, sleep.
- Goes into dream sequence/Musical of Danton’s Death.
- ..Some years later, they are poor and Buchner is wanted for arrest. Whilst ripping up newspaper for the stove he sees a writing competition, and an article about the real Woyzeck.
- Fails to finish play on time.
- Typhus plague, Woyzeck dream.
- Death.
Draft 1 of Sylvia’s script for Buchners life section:
This is the first draft of Laura’s edit for the Woyzeck dream/nightmare, (click to enlarge)
This is the first Draft Script that Naomi has edited for Danton’s Death:
Danton’s Death Script
Blackout. We start to hear the sound of the peasants rioting. A spot light appears on Buchner/ Danton whom is wearing a court wig. Two guards appear carrying prison bars and hold them in front of Buchner/Danton .The spot light appears on Buchner/Danton
BUCHNER: NO ….NO… What …What is this….(feeling his head to realise he is now Danton, he comes to his knees on his bed grasps the bars to embrace the lines of Danton)
DANTON: Where self-defence ends murder begins. I see no necessity for going on with these killings.
Spotlight also appears on Robespierre.
ROBESPIERRE: The social revolution is not yet accomplished. To carry out a revolution by halves is to dig your own grave. The society of the privileged is not yet dead.
DANTON: You are a fraud!
ROBESPIERRE: My conscience is clear.
DANTON: (addressing the audience in a sarcastic manner) Conscience is a mirror before which a monkey pinches itself. You aim to turn the guillotine into a washtub for people’s stained linen – now do you have the right to do so?
ROBESPIERRE: You deny the existence of virtue?
DANTON: and you of vice!
ROBESPIERRE: Danton, there are periods when vice is high treason.
Spotlight fades off of Robespierre, are attention is turned to Danton/Buchner.
DANTON: For God’s sake don’t proscribe it. We mustn’t strike the innocent along with the guilty. (In rage shaking the bars) WE MUSTN’T STRIKE THE INNOCENT ALONG WITH THE GUILTY!
The crowds’ rioting fades. The Guards take the bars away and help Danton/Buchner into a right- angled position at the end of the bed. The spotlight fades off Danton/Buchner as a reconstruction of his execution is projected on the screen. At the end of the projection the normal lighting appears around Buchner, without his wig, and appears dazed and confused as to why he is in the execution position at the end of his bed.