Move to the City is a beautiful example of a scene that captures the inner conflict that arises for one person, when loving another means having to let them go. Jocelyn and Raeleen are very close friends. There is an understanding between them, a gentle complicite. Jocelyn and Raeleen fell in with one another from the first day they met. There was the kind of ease between them that happens rarely. Their love for one another is unconditional; one would drop everything for the other if the need arose. Jocelyn has great difficulty telling Raeleen about her move to another city. She knows how much this will impact Raeleen and her children. But Jocelyn can't stay in one place just to keep her best friend happy. She must also look after herself and build her career. Does Jocelyn's news break an implicit promise for Raeleen or is it simply an un-stated expectation that things will go unchanged forever? Change is inevitable but for Raeleen this means being without a friendship that has given her great comfort and security for a number of years. Developing this scene will no doubt require the actors to explore the nature of friendship that has been described. Unconditional love and understanding is rare in relationships - building a working state of intimacy will be paramount to achieving the level of emotional truth this scene requires. The actors may also so wish to explore aspects of dependency and expectation that can tend to occur in close relationships. Habits are easily formed and it may not be that until an event occurs that disturbs the norm, that such things as expectations and dependency's are exposed. Although it is painful for Raeleen she insists that Jocelyn cannot think of not going. She has Jocelyn's best interests at heart. And Jocelyn would love Raeleen to come with her but knows that this is also not in her best interests for all sorts of reasons which include what is best for the children. The acting challenge in this scene is for the actors to experience this impasse. |