The Boy Who Loved Chocolate

TITLE: THE BOY WHO LOVED CHOCOLATE

INTERMEDIATE/LOWER SECONDARY

CHARACTERS:

Boy

Mother

Father

Argentinian

Policeman

SYNOPSIS:

A 13 year old boy is at home alone playing with his computer. He loves chocolate and decides to order by the Internet a 2000$ worth of chocolate and pays with a credit card number that he finds at random.

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES

THE BOY wants to get some chocolate and share it with his friends.

THE MOTHER wants to punish his son for the crime he has committed.

THE FATHER thinks the boy deserves a spank but he thinks it was very clever what he did and he is secretly proud of his resourceful son.

THE ARGENTINIAN is very angry and wants his Money back

THE POLICEMAN wants to solve the crime and bring the boy to justice

SCENE BREAKDOWN

SCENE 1 (a boy in his bedroom room)

A boy is alone in his bedroom with his computer . He loves chocolate. His parents do not allow him to eat chocolate. He has a great idea.

SCENE 2 (a couple of days later, in the same house)

Someone is at the door. The boy opens the door and gets a big parcel. He has to sign for the invoice.

SCENE 2 (a different house)

An Argentinian man gets home from work he fumbles with the mail, he opens a letter from his bank and shouts “What the heck!!!” or something in Spanish with an Accent.

SCENE 3 (at the boy’s house again)

The boy, the mother and the father are having dinner in the dinning room, somebody rings the bell. The father opens the door and sees a policeman. The policeman wants to ask some questions.

SCENE 4 (At court)

The 4 characters explain what has happened and answer the questions that is the end of the story.

Organisation:

Divide the class into 4 groups. Group 1 is going to play scene 1, Group 2 will play scene 2, Group 3 plays scene 3 and Group 4 acts out scene 4.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CINEMA

The idea of using different genres and music is very good and original. I could use it with advanced levels.

CHICKEN RUN

I read the outline for this play and I loved it. I loved the story (everybody knows the story and the film) and I liked the idea of having as many characters as you want because you can adapt the chickens to the number of students you have.

I would change the organization of the class though. Instead of having groups playing different scenes I would divide the class into groups but with the same character. For example: group 1: 3 (or 4) Mr Tweedy; group 2: 3 Mrs Tweedy; group 3: 3 Rocky; and so on and so forth... They prepare their roles together, helping each other and after some time you can have the four or five different groups to practice the play and finally the performe the play and vote for the best performance.