PLAYHOUSE COMPANY - CRIPPEN Drama Breakdown FOR THURSDAY 24 & FRIDAY 25 APRIL 2008

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SHOOT DAY 3 - NICO VAUGHAN as Sergeant Mitchell

THURS 24 APRIL

08:30 – 09:30 Camera / Lighting Set-up

Crippen

09:30 – 10:00

Cora goes to a drawer, pulls out and looks over bills and statements in the drawing room.

Cora Crippen.

Crippen Drawing room

Furniture as before, bills + statements.

Cora – daywear / blouse and skirt

None scripted.

10:00 – 10:45 Camera / Lighting Set-up

10:45 – 11:30

The police question Crippen and take his statement.

Hawley Crippen, , Chf Inspector Walter DEW, Sergeant Arthur Mitchell

Crippen Drawing Room.

Pad and pen (police note taking), Dining table and chairs. Laid out for breakfast / tea cups etc

Gold rimmed glasses, sergeant’s costume – not uniform NB Inspector Dew has his own.

Crippen – moustache.

None scripted, but cops question Crippen. He admits to lying about his wife’s death, but says it was to avoid personal embarrassment.

11:30 – 12:15 Camera / Lighting set-up

12:15 – 13:00

Crippen watches Cora eat.

Hawley Crippen, Cora Crippen.

Crippen’s dining room. [Pink Room]

Glasses of red wine & in decanter / cheese & fruit of the period.

Cora is a little overdressed / fur shrug? / jewellery Perhaps a hair slide Crippen – grey frock coat etc / spectacles

Moustache

None specified.

Lighting

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Camera / Lighting set-up

14:45 – 15:15

The police search the Crippen bedroom.- open drawers / closets / cupboards

Inspector Walter DEW and Sergeant Arthur Mitchell.

Crippen bedroom. ‘Judges Bedroom’

Furniture as before, chest of drawers, documents and personal items. –

Mitchell costume / Dew has his own Natasha – we’ll need a few costumes to use as props in wardrobe

None scripted.

15:15 – 16:00 Camera set-up /lighting

16:00 – 16:30	Cora at entrance to house – hauls cases onto front step as prepares to leave.	Cora Crippen.	The Red House / Broad Street Entrance to ’39 Hilldrop Crescent’	Travel cases x 5 (C/O Judges Lodgings)	Cora in hat and overcoat		None scripted.
16:30 –	The police’s first visit to Crippen’s house. Knock once wait and then more persistently. Maid answers the door. They talk then go into hallway.	Chf Inspector Walter DEW + Sergeant Arthur Mitchell Valentine Lecoq	As above	None specific mentioned. Bit of dressing in hallway if visible past front door.	Mitchell costume Maids clothing – Black Country Player has her own	Hair up in maid’s style	None scripted, but Dew and Mitchell talks briefly.
- 17:00	The police return to the Crippen house. Maid answers the door flustered / they talk and police go in.	Valentine Lecoq, Inspector Walter Dew, Sergeant Arthur Mitchell.	As above		Maids clothing – own Mitchell costume		None scripted.

17:00 – 17:45 Camera / Lighting set-up

17:45 – 19:30 – shoot cellar scenes

17:45 – 18:15	INT. Crippen shows the police the cellar. Creepy POV down stairs and cellar hallway.	Hawley Crippen, Inspector Walter DEW, Sergeant Arthur Mitchell.	‘Crippen Cellar’ Wine Cellar	None mentioned – police lantern?	Mitchell costume Gold rimmed glasses c/o Tia Swan, Dew has own	Crippen – moustache	None scripted.	Low lighting
18:15 – 18:45	The police search Crippen cellar – cautiously prise bricks off floor with metal pokers.	Inspector Walter DEW and Sergeant Arthur Mitchell. Policeman	‘Crippen cellar’	Metal pokers, lamps, bricks, spade., soil	As above Policeman has own (BCP)		None scripted.	Low lighting.
18:45 – 19:15	Examine the rotting remains in the hole – hold cloth to noses. Lift remains into large white enamel basin. Police officer cloth over nose & mouth disinfects the cellar, smoke billowing steps round hole and sloshes liquid on walls.	Inspector Walter DEW and Sergeant Arthur Mitchell. Policeman	‘Crippen cellar’	Cloth, liquid (disinfectant), bucket or bowl Incense sticks Enamel basin Remains found: (bloody striped pyjama + label) piece of skin, stomach, heart, lungs, liver) c/o Nicola & AW. hair clip (hair c/o Natasha)	As above Hair in clip Natasha –providing hair + blood for pyjamas		None scripted.
19:15 – 19:30	ECU of glinting knife + version cutting flesh	N/A – male hand	‘Crippen cellar’	Pig meat + sharp knife from butcher c/o Nicola Humphreys

SHOOT DAY 4

FRI 25 APRIL

08:30 – 09:30 – Camera/ Lighting set – up/ Spilsbury in costume/make-up

Other cast are dressed / make-up for courtroom scene

09:30 – 11:00

Forensic lab, 1910 London. In CU we see chemicals being mixed in glass tubes.

Bernard Spilsbury (pathologist)

Cellar of Lodgings ‘1910 forensic lab’

Microscope. Mock-up of scar tissue slide & note on label + see photo of Spilsbury – various bottles etc. Coloured liquids in glass test tubes / glass stirrers

White lab coat.

11:00 – 12:00

Ext. Day – P.O.V pushing through crowd gathered outside courthouse

As many crowd as poss. (5-7)

Exterior. Courthouse

N/A

Civilian clothing

Early lunch 12:00 – 13:00

13:00 – 18:30 – shoot courtroom scenes

13:00 – 13:30 – Choreographing cast

13:30 – 14:00	1910 Courtroom / Day Bruce Miller gives evidence / a lawyer holds and quotes from letter.	Bruce Miller, Lawyer (Muir or other?).	Courtroom.	Generic handwritten Letter.	Lawyer’s wig, (Judges Lodgings has 2 wigs and 2 black lawyers gowns – need to source another 2 of each) Bruce Miller has own costume		None scripted – but lawyer quotes from letter. c/o AW	All filmed in natural / available daylight.
14:00 -	Spilsbury on witness stand – lifts glass jar containing human remains & indicates with it to the jury	Bernard Spilsbury Jury.	Courtroom.	Red carnation for button-hole Jar with ‘human tissue’ C/O Andy Webb	Suit (Art Dept. providing carnation)		None scripted.
- 15:00	Jury peer through microscope at skin tissue	6 jurors	Juror’s bench, courtroom	Microscope ‘human tissue’ sample – Spilsbury scar slide	Spilsbury suit Jurors costumes
15:00 -	Usher hands black cap to Judge who places it on his head??	Usher + Lord Chief Justice Alverstone + as many others as are dressed.	Courtroom – Judges seat	9 inch square of black cloth	Judges wig + scarlet robes Usher – one of the gents?
16:00 -	Crippen in the dock scared and mousy. CU face and eyes of Crippen.	Hawley Crippen, Lord Alverstone. 6 Jury, lawyers, audience etc). Policeman behind him	Courtroom. - dock		Gold rimmed glasses, wig, scarlet robes,		None specified.
16:00 -	The prosecution presents to the jury bloodstained evidence.	Richard Muir 6 Jurors Inspector Dew	Courtroom.	Glass jar with bloodstained striped piece of material inside.	Lawyer’s wig, black gown		None scripted, but Muir talks – to Crippen or Jury?
- 17:00	Trial evidence.	None mentioned.	Courtroom.	Evidence exhibits (piece of skin, stomach, heart) c/o Nicola Humphreys & AW. bloodstained pyjama fabric)	Wigs & gowns if judge/lawyers are needed.	Hair in clip (see murder casebook for ref.), , Blood for pyjama scraps	None scripted.
17:00	Lord Chief Justice Alverstone sentences Hawley Crippen to death by hanging in a packed courtroom	Lord Chief Justice ALVERSTONE, Hawley Crippen, Counsel (x 4), Jurors, Lawyers, usher, court spectators (both male and female)	1910 wooden-panelled court room.	Scary exhibits, human flesh in glass jars, overflowing legal files 9 inch square of black cloth	Scarlet robes, 4 x Black lawyers gowns – Judges Lodgings have 2. 4 court wigs + short Judges wig (Lodgings have 2) Crippen outfit		Lord Alverstone closing comments – see dialogue sheet.	All to be shot in natural / available light. Sound – Boom people on this day
- 18:00	Cuts from the faces of the jurors, the crowd, the lawyers, shocked faces of women in the crowd / Judge looking stern	As above – all should be dressed and in by now. 6 male jurors & 15 mixed crowd 1 policeman
18:00 – 18:30	P.O.V. Crowd pushing at the door trying to get in & watching through 2 inch gap.	6 crowd members (preferably different to those outside courthouse) Policeman to push door shut.	Courtroom door

18:30 – Wrap + soup & rolls for cast / high tea for the crew…