Into the Woods by John Yorke

Author:John Yorke [YORKE, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER004050, PER011030, PER010050, PER019000
ISBN: e9781468310948
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2014-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Exposition works when it’s a tool a character uses to achieve their desire. If this desire is confronted with opposition, conflict is generated and exposition becomes invisible. The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition. Exposition automatically becomes more interesting if the investigating policeman is talking to the culprit, or the doctor hates telling bad news – if the relaying of information has impact.

In the very first episode of the BBC series Cardiac Arrest, Jed Mercurio (writing as John MacUre) gets a terrified junior doctor to break the news of their loved one’s death to the relatives of the deceased in a scene of agonizing discomfort.

DR COLLIN enters the relatives’ room. MRS GREY and her friend sit by the window, eagerly awaiting news.

DR COLLIN: Mrs Grey.

MRS GREY: You look tired, Doctor … why don’t you have a seat?

DR COLLIN: Oh, no, please … er, I’m fine thanks … er, I wanted to, er … as you know, Albert wasn’t a well man. He had a mesothelioma secondary … he had this kind of … this lung cancer … which came on because he was exposed to asbestos … probably, because he was exposed to … asbestos … you know, you never know for sure … 100 per cent yesterday … he wasn’t a well man … er, we gave him injections … oxygen … nebulizers and I … we did everything we could for him … in the end, there was nothing we could do … actually, if there is anything you want to ask me … er.

MRS GREY: Well, how is Albert now? Is it very bad? Is that what you’re saying?

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