Play Circumstances

Radio Play

Kai Kwasi Thorne

As I do Hell Pains

Playwright : Kai Kwasi Thorne

Character Names

Lucy Thorn (Female lucifer/conceptualized by Kendrick Lamar - to pimp a butterfly)

Damien Thorn (From “The Omen Series” tv show, his character is the antichrist)

Thorne: connotations with roses (brutal beauty)

Emotion

I want there to be a journey in terms of emotion in the piece starting with a calm passive atmosphere at the beginning. Then building up

Status

Working class relatable to the general audience.

Damien is from a lower class family.

Lucy is from a slightly higher-class family (upper working class).

Energy

Lucy has higher energy than Damien but in a sense they balance each other

Voice

They are comfortable with each other and therefore speak informally but are intelligent enough to be able to properly articulate their arguments.

Objectives

To argue

To accuse

To inform

To manipulate

To deceive

Gender

Lucy-Female

Damien-Male

events

Damien gets home. His wife is waiting

They start arguing

Argument builds

Revelations (cheating

Context is revealed

Resolution

The resolution is false.

They stop arguing but still resent each other

Dilemma

Throughout the argument these are going to be the faults (sins) that they accuse each other/deny themselves of committing.

Seven deadly sins

Pride – Instagram (vanity) “you’re more into your phone than me”

Cheating (Envy) “I saw you eyeing that guy at your work do”

Wrath – (tempers) “stop raising your voice”

Gluttony – “all you do is

Lust – lack

Sloth - housework

Greed (mine, mine, mine)

Location - Domestic setting

The entire radio play takes place in the house, in the front room/kitchen. It is a reasonably comfortable apartment in North Greenwich

Characters

Damien Thorne (28 years of age): Deep soothing voice. He has a neutral Londoner’s accent. He is intelligent and well spoken despite his slow. He works at Barclays as a cashier. (Representative of the evils of capitalism)

Lucy Thorn (27 years of age): Her voice is a little harsher than Damien’s. She also has a neutral Londoner’s accent. She is also well spoken and intelligent but a bit more emotionally unstable than Damien and prone to resorting to shouting. She works in politics for the Conservative party.