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Felix is feeling uncomfortable after the fight

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Felix is feeling uncomfortable after the fight

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Felix stands uncomfortable looking at the audience feeling he needs to explain how this all began with Ben...
Who is Felix talking to? His class or directly to the audience?

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QKThr plays while Felix just cries and breaks down.

Why do the trees look dead? over the voicemail between Felix and his dad...

Behind Felix on the screen there is a projecting of shadow puppets creating a tree image to match the voice over between Felix and the dad

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Felix teaching his class with ben 'there' making him stressed

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Felix teaching his class with ben 'there' making him stressed

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*Floe*?
Ben is in the back of the classroom making Felix build with anxiety, rage and uncontrollable overwhelming.

This builds and builds (play a song over the top of this scene that creates the audience to feel uncomfortable)

Felix freaks out from the conversation with ben in his head and then breaks back into reality to have a breakdown in front of the class making him stressed his job is on the line.

Felix has breakdown at home after the day has ended with the uncomfortable song.

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Introduction to Ben and Felix's living situation 

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Introduction to Ben and Felix's living situation 

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Awkwardness of talking to each other and packing boxes together.

could be a sitcom scene with all the comical audience laughing voice overs having Felix really play into it but ben is completely  out of it just trying to pack his stuff up while Felix is somewhat entertaining the audience with cringe stupid jokes that are followed by an audience reaction.

having meaningless small talk

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The spotlight is on Ben

There is a voice over playing with Bens dads voice booming through the phone with anger

(establishing the hostile relationship they have)

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Mocking business men (ties to Bens introduction)

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Mocking business men (ties to Bens introduction)

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Hypermasculine environment and mocks the image of them

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* The audience sees Felix and Ben change clothes to indicate the change of scene and that time had past*

- Ben walks down the hall way of the school while holding the door on wheels to symbolize there is a room on the other side of the wall and eventually opens the door to find Felix packing his belongings after his class.
Ben opens the door and then lightly slams it when discovering Felix is in that room, Ben freaks out for a second to then reopen the door to engage.

- Ben picks up his younger brother from the same school Felix teaches at (but felix isnt the younger brothers teacher)

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- Shows the audience a tender moment of them flirting and displays the initial spark they had.
- Why they're together.
- Ben is hugely flustered
- They eventually kiss
- Felix leaves and they don't have contact for around 9 months or so

To interupt their first hang out, Felix gets a notification on his phone saying his uber is here (phone enters the room on a selfie stick arm, cued by DING DONG)

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Queen song to help articulate "The Millionaire Waltz"
- The fight could perhaps link to the fact Felix didn't have a mother figure growing up and Ben says something disrespectful about them and their 'gender rolls'.
- Reveals something

Another option:
- Bens family comes to their home
- Bens dad makes fun of Felix because he's a male that can cook and mocks him for being a 'house wife roommate'

Emerges into a dispute between Ben and Felix..
- Ben maybe agrees with his dad and jokes that he is the house wife which leads to a big fight.

Ben questions why Felix has settled for him and explains he isnt enough ...
Queen 'The millionaire Waltz' roars

why are you with me..

Felix tries to bring it back down to earth and explain his love for Ben.

cuts to Felix in front of his classroom after just having a breakdown.

Then explains to his kids he's moving out from living with his partner

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- Felix assigns his kids to leave for the holidays and come back with a story over their break..
- This leads to the kids questioning what Felix will be doing over his time off.

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Felix listening to his first voice memo from dad

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Felix listening to his first voice memo from dad

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About the wedding

leads to a quiet moment, while standing by the answering machine conveying he is a bit stunned his dad is remarrying

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- Bib N Brace
- House Conspiracy
- Backbone
- PIP Theatre
- Paddington Hall
- Woolloongabba Substation
- Olly thought of renting a real apartment space for a month, (use during rehearsal period too)
- Metro Arts
- Brisbane Arts Theatre
- Ithica hall only on weekends

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Felix runs into Ben's firm to drop off his lunch that he forgot at home. Felix emerges into the scene - the visual of him centred in a circling collage of shadow puppetry depicting ridiculous (and laughably erotic) macho activities in the workplace. Felix has fun with it, plays into it by exaggerating himself in the opposite direction.
Ben is distraught that Felix has come his workplace, jeopardizing the secret of the relationship to his work mates. Ben drags Felix away, draws a tiny outline of a box around them to create a janitor's closet. Felix tries to be playful with Ben, playing with scenarios and pretending to step back out into the office / playing with Ben about "what can happen when they're all alone and so close together". Ben is completely unreciprocating, tense, angry. He belittles and shames Felix - the mood is destroyed. Ben leaves and tells him to wait a few minutes before exiting too. Felix is left to mingle awkwardly with the context of the tiny closet. He steps back out, recentred into the office scene - but this time is uncomfortable and hollowed out.

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First time they meet is in their university days, Felix is working bartender. Ben is at the bar with some university friends. They talk, flirt, Ben offers to buy Felix a drink as he's finishing his shift. They kiss, but Felix has to leave shortly after.
- 9 months pass till they bump into each other again. The moment wasn't particularly significant for Felix but was MAJOR for Ben as it was his first moment of real flirting and affection with another man after years of keeping his sexuality quiet.
- The next time they meet is at Felix's teaching job, Ben is picking up his younger brother. Ben is back and forth nervously about approaching Felix again, but does. Felix doesn't remember him at first, making Ben more embarrassed.

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I place this following Felix's breakdown. The image of his lying spayed on the floor as this scene happens around him. Voice overs of his childhood self and his father - likely playing through the answering machine? (The phone would be ringing through his breakdown combined with the music)
- We could choose to use a moment of shadow puppetry here, build the image of a bare tree (that could build up from the ground through panels, then expand out in width of added branches)
- Young Felix asks his father "Why do all the trees look dead?"
His father goes on to explain: "They're not dead, it's just winter. It's just too cold"

- opening scene of felix and father planting seeds to link to the dead trees

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"do you think we would've been friends as kids?"

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"do you think we would've been friends as kids?"

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For now, I place this directly after Felix's breakdown and the following childhood voice over scene.
We open into a memory conversation between Felix and Ben - Ben asks this question. In the true memory Felix says yes, he thinks they would've been (to keep the peace, be agreeable). We flip out of this memory's reality for Felix to express - no, they wouldn't have. Ben was the type to fight other boys, and Felix was the type to be punched.
This spreads out into Felix talking about boyhood, what he wanted to be versus the way that Ben interpreted what he was allowed to be. The destruction of boyhood to become 'ideal men', to become businessmen. This is a moment of exploring what masculinity and identity is capable of being versus what it's become socially. A moment of Felix mourning what was lost in growing up.

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felix is tense from the start of the scene (this is right towards the end of the play, he's filled with everything that's happened so far) and an argument sparks between the pair. the "water" bubble in their ceiling is sagging further and further - ben keeps attempting to distract away from the conversation to the bubble. in this scene, felix is finally expressing a lot of ben's wrongdoings/the breakdown of their relationship. the ceiling bubble BURSTS (filled with confetti?)
this burst of confetti might make felix laugh and wake to the ridiculous aspect of it all - and that this is all just a blip in the timeline of his life. a moment of finally letting go of the weight.

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The show may open with a moment of shadow puppetry - Young Felix and his father.
This could lead into a quiet moment of Felix in the apartment (Does he enter through a doorway? Or is he already somewhere in the space?) He listens to a voice message from his father left on the answering machine (Talking about the upcoming wedding, opening up some context). He adjusts his outfit quietly.
This leads us into a snap change of energy and volume, opening into our first classroom scene. Likely the scene where he asks his students to think of a story about their holiday break to bring back to the class next semester. The students want to know about his life; what he's doing over the break. This opens us up into the story.