Plot of radio play

Set Up

It is 5pm, Amanda is eating dinner with her father and discussing how their days went. Radio 4 is on in the background, the programme PM is on. Eamon stops the conversation with Amanda so that he can listen. The programme is talking about Jack Cray and how new evidence has placed him to have been involved in the killing of Tommy Lewis, that occurred seven years ago. The programme then discusses the death of Jack Cray, that happened five years ago and that involved Chief Inspector Eamon Lawson.  The narrative then switches to the Cray family who are too listening to the radio. After being irritated by the radio slating of his father, Sonny Cray turns it off. The Cray family then have a discussion, which allows the audience to get an insight into the Cray family. The rivalry between the two families is also set up through the dicussion that each family has about the other.

Development

Sonny wants Rob to take part in a drug deal as he wants him to get more involved in the family business. Rob refuses as he wants to go to a party. This angers Sonny greatly and the audience are allowed an insight into their sibling relationship. Rob defies Sonny and goes to the party, where he meets Amanda, who managed to persuade her father in letting her attend the party. The two have no idea who the other one is and how their lives have crossed paths, and so they begin a relationship together.

 

Climax

Eamon and Sonny find out that that Rob and Amanda have been dating, the two then realise that they cannot be together in the situation that they are in, and so they run away together. They are soon discovered by both Eamon and Sonny. During a confrontation between Sonny, Eamon, Rob and Amanda, the two teenagers drive away in a hurry and end up getting involved in a car crash that kills them both.

Resolution

The funeral for Rob and Amanda takes place, where the epilogue from Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is told but with an alteration to fit my characters.