co-pilot:
crew member who helps the pilot (and is also able to fly the plane)
navigator:
crew member who plans plane’s route
challenge:
ask someone to tell you who they are
order:
tell someone to do something
calm:
not excited
speak incomprehensibly:
speak in a way that cannot be understood
trial:
before a person can be sent to jail they are put on “trial”
psychiatrist:
a doctor for people who are mentally ill (or “crazy”)
political movement:
a group of people who are trying to change society
did you intend?:
did you plan to?
a particular plane:
this plane and not some other one
passengers:
the people who are travelling on a plane
crew:
the people who are working on the plane
drama 1: in the cockpit just after the unnamed passenger has entered
drama 2: before his trial, the unnamed passenger is interviewed by two prison psychiatrists
four actors:
suggestions:
• the unnamed passenger
• the pilot
• the co-pilot
• the navigator
• preparation time: no more than five minutes
• drama time: around thirty seconds
• each actor speaks one short sentence at a time
• pilot speaks first (challenging? ordering?)
• unnamed passenger replies (calmly? angrily? incomprehensibly?)
• followed by co-pilot and reply
• followed by navigator and reply
three actors:
suggestions:
• the unnamed passenger
• first psychiatrist
• second psychiatrist
• preparation time: no more than ten minutes
• drama time: two-three minutes
• psychiatrists take turns asking questions such as:
- what happened on the plane?
- do you have a family?
- do you belong to a political movement?
- when you got on the plane did you intend to make it crash?
- why did you choose to travel on that particular plane?
- how do you feel now about the crew / the passengers?