Directing- Bee's Scene

The start of the scene

I’m here . . . I heard you get up, can I sit with you? . . . You fell asleep. I brought you in here . . . Goodnight . . . Good morning . . . Goodnight . . . I made some tea . . . I’ll see you after work . . . Have you been sat there all day? . . . It’s getting dark . . . It’s getting light . . . Come to bed . . . You fell asleep . . . I woke up and you were gone . . . You’ve not said a word to me for days . . . ‘ . . . Baby . . . ‘ . . . We need to get on with things.

Please don’t.

It feels like you’re punishing me.

I’m not trying to.

You’re angry with me.

No. No I’m not I’m . . . yes. Alright I must be I suppose. I’m angry at this. This everything. I hate it.

We can try again.

No . . . I can’t bear it . . . Sorry . . . There it is . . . ‘ . . . Should we stay together do you think? Or should we . . . I don’t know . . . Not . . . ‘

I

I’m not saying this because I want to break up. I don’t know what I want . . . I just think it would be . . . I think it’s a good opportunity for us to . . . you know, talk . . . Have a conversation . . . Ask ourselves some serious . . . you know, difficult

opportunity?

You know what I’m saying please fucking help me out here.

No. I know what I want.

We should, no, we should take some time and really think about this because right now I don’t want to look at you. I need you to just fucking put your arms around me but you’re not and don’t, please, not now, not because I’m telling you to, I don’t want that, not

sorry

Fucking apologising you don’t know do you what you’re apologising for, so . . . I need some . . . just . . . space.

Space?

Space. Fucking space. Yes. The fucking final frontier why are you / repeating things I’m saying?

Sorry I’m . . . just . . . getting my head around it that’s all. Just trying to catch up a bit, trying to fucking

get your head around it.

Yes. And it’s taking me a second so I’m sorry. I love you. I’m . . . I don’t know what you need or what you . . . this is difficult for me too.

Oh fuck off / I’m not saying it’s not, I’m not saying it’s . . . easy for you I know it’s . . . . don’t put that on me don’t . . . look we’re both in the same . . . we’ve both

just I need some help I need some help a little fucking I need you to give me some clues here as to what you need because honestly I feel like you’re standing behind a glass wall just this sheet of glass and I can’t reach you.

Don’t cry for fuck sake because . . . look, . . . for fuck sake . . . ‘ . . . It’s okay . . . Fuck. It is . . . There are people in the world with real problems. This is just . . . people go through this everywhere. All the time. Through time . . . We’ll . . . we could try again. If that’s what we want to do.

It is.