Dr. Manette Hot Seat Script Analysis
Aubrey Bowers
Makayla Flocken
Helena Miller
Diana Ortega
Giselle Raven
Advanced English II
Ms. Thomas
6 March 2017
Dr. Manette Hot Seat Script / Questions and Answers
Costume/Props:
Diana - Yellow shirt
Diana - Baggy pants (sweatpants)
Diana - Shoes
Makayla - Makeup
Helena - Necklace w/ golden thread
Diana - Hairspray
Diana - Tools
Helena - Shoebox
Planned interactions:
Lucie Manette- first meeting with Lucie, and crying as they hold each other
Mr. Lorry- in the room with Lucie during their first encounter
Charles Darnay- Dr. Manette’s nephew
Madame Defarge- hallway pacing
Monsieur Defarge- hallway pacing
Scene One: Diana Ortega
Questioner- “Hello? Dr. Manette… Hello?”
[Dr. Manette looks confused and mumbles to himself as he turns around …show more content…
Manette - “Once. When he called at my lodgings in London. Some three years, or three years and a half ago.” (Dickens 78).
Questioner - “Can you identify him as your fellow-passenger? Or speak to his conversation with your daughter?”
Dr. Manette - “Yes, sir.”
Questioner - “Is there any reason why you could not do either?”
Dr. Manette - [He said in a low voice] “There is.”
Questioner - “Has it been because of your long imprisonment in your country?”
Dr. Manette - [He answered in a tone that went to every heart] “A long imprisonment.” (Dickens 78).
Questioner - “Were you recently released on the event in question?”
Dr. Manette - “That’s what they tell me.”
Questioner - “Do you remember any of it?”
Dr. Manette - “None. My mind is blank, from sometime -- I cannot even say what time -- when I employed myself, in my captivity, in making shoes, to the time when I found myself living in London with my dear daughter here. She had become familiar to me, when a gracious God restored my faculties: but, I am quite unable even to say how she had become familiar. I have no remembrance of the process” (Dickens 78).
Scene 4 “Pacing the halls”- Makayla …show more content…
(Doctor looks off, obviously distraught, another silence)
Dr. Manette: I believe it. I do you justice; i believe it.
(Darnay hesitant to even approach the subject again)
Darnay(questioner): shall i go on, sir?
(more silence)
Dr. Manette: yes go on
Darnay(questioner): you anticipate what i would say, though you cannot know how earnestly i say it, how earnestly feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear doctor Manette, i love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, i love her. You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me! (on his knees begging)
(The doctor turns his hand out, on the bridge of tears)
Dr. Manette: Not that sir! Let that be! I adjure you, do not recall that! (his hand touches darnay for a second then his arm retracts, the doctor is brought back to his senses and becomes silent, he composes himself) i ask your pardon, i do not doubt you loving lucie; you may be satisfied of it.
(the doctor turns away from Darnay and lowers his head)
-END
Makayla Flocken
Helena Miller
Diana Ortega
Giselle Raven
Advanced English II
Ms. Thomas
6 March 2017
Dr. Manette Hot Seat Script / Questions and Answers
Costume/Props:
Diana - Yellow shirt
Diana - Baggy pants (sweatpants)
Diana - Shoes
Makayla - Makeup
Helena - Necklace w/ golden thread
Diana - Hairspray
Diana - Tools
Helena - Shoebox
Planned interactions:
Lucie Manette- first meeting with Lucie, and crying as they hold each other
Mr. Lorry- in the room with Lucie during their first encounter
Charles Darnay- Dr. Manette’s nephew
Madame Defarge- hallway pacing
Monsieur Defarge- hallway pacing
Scene One: Diana Ortega
Questioner- “Hello? Dr. Manette… Hello?”
[Dr. Manette looks confused and mumbles to himself as he turns around …show more content…
Manette - “Once. When he called at my lodgings in London. Some three years, or three years and a half ago.” (Dickens 78).
Questioner - “Can you identify him as your fellow-passenger? Or speak to his conversation with your daughter?”
Dr. Manette - “Yes, sir.”
Questioner - “Is there any reason why you could not do either?”
Dr. Manette - [He said in a low voice] “There is.”
Questioner - “Has it been because of your long imprisonment in your country?”
Dr. Manette - [He answered in a tone that went to every heart] “A long imprisonment.” (Dickens 78).
Questioner - “Were you recently released on the event in question?”
Dr. Manette - “That’s what they tell me.”
Questioner - “Do you remember any of it?”
Dr. Manette - “None. My mind is blank, from sometime -- I cannot even say what time -- when I employed myself, in my captivity, in making shoes, to the time when I found myself living in London with my dear daughter here. She had become familiar to me, when a gracious God restored my faculties: but, I am quite unable even to say how she had become familiar. I have no remembrance of the process” (Dickens 78).
Scene 4 “Pacing the halls”- Makayla …show more content…
(Doctor looks off, obviously distraught, another silence)
Dr. Manette: I believe it. I do you justice; i believe it.
(Darnay hesitant to even approach the subject again)
Darnay(questioner): shall i go on, sir?
(more silence)
Dr. Manette: yes go on
Darnay(questioner): you anticipate what i would say, though you cannot know how earnestly i say it, how earnestly feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear doctor Manette, i love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, i love her. You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me! (on his knees begging)
(The doctor turns his hand out, on the bridge of tears)
Dr. Manette: Not that sir! Let that be! I adjure you, do not recall that! (his hand touches darnay for a second then his arm retracts, the doctor is brought back to his senses and becomes silent, he composes himself) i ask your pardon, i do not doubt you loving lucie; you may be satisfied of it.
(the doctor turns away from Darnay and lowers his head)
-END