The Accident

In our play the group of friends are going to swim at the waterfall. One climbs up and prepares to jump off. Some of the other friends warn her about jumping, because they don’t know how deep it is. When she jumps, she doesn’t resurface. She has accidentally hit her head and died.

Scene	Idea
1 - Hail	Walking the track to the waterfall
2- Jay	Standing at the top of waterfall about to jump
3 - Kate	She jumps and dies
4 - Zoe	They pull her out and realise she’s dead. And they try to find help and get her out.

Scene 1

J- “Let’s go swimming at that waterfall!”

K- “Alright, but I dare you to jump off first Jay.”

J- “Only if you climb up with me.”

Z- “Whatever, let’s go.”

H - “C’mon guys, y’all are too slow”

Scene 2

*J and Z at top of waterfall, H and K at bottom*

H- “Go on, jump!”

K- “You can do it, just jump!”

Z- “But you don’t know how deep it is.”

J- “Yeah, is it deep enough?”

K- “Who cares, she’ll be right, go!”

Scene 3

[slow motion] *Zoe jokingly pushes J, J jumps and dies.*

Scene 4

H- “Shouldn’t she be coming up by now?”

H- “Guys can we take a selfie quickly, pleaseee, it’ll look cool with jay in the water!”

Z- “Yeah, does it usually take this long?”

K- “Oh dear god, she might be hurt. We should go help her.”

*They go in and drag J out.*

All- “She’s dead!”

[freeze frame]

*J stands up* “I didn’t want to die like this, I had so much to live for… I didn’t even have long socks on when I died. There was so much I wanted to do! I’m too young for this. That’s depressing etc etc monologue blah blah blah.”

[freeze frame ends]

K- “Zoe… this is your fault, you pushed her!”

Z- “No, you’re the one who told us not to bother checking how deep it was!”

H- “Guys, it was an accident.”

[Scene 1 paragraph]

In the first scene Jay, Zoe, Hayley and Kate are walking towards a waterfall they’ve always wanted to jump off.

[Scene 2 paragraph]

In the second scene Jay and Zoe are standing at the top of the waterfall, with Kate and Hayley standing at the bottom. Kate and Hayley are encouraging Jay to jump off, but Jay and Zoe are worried about the depth of the water and rocks at the bottom.

[Scene 3 paragraph]

In the third scene Jay is standing on the edge the waterfall not wanting to jump, then zoe  pushes her as a joke, but jay loses her footing and slips and falls.