Chavvy Lads

chav

tʃav/

noun

BRITISHinformalderogatory

plural noun: chavs

1. a young lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour and the wearing of (real or imitation) designer clothes.

Throughout this piece there is a highlighted feature onto gender and stereotypes, such as the chavs and Richard in the work colleagues scene. In this chavvy lads scene, we want to create exaggerated characters, with exaggerated body language, hand gestures and vocals, in a similar style to some of Steven Berkoff's characters in his plays such as East. We want these characters to be exaggerated so that there is comedy value as well as moments where the audience cringe at how disgusting they are. The two lads we are going to portray are Nathanial and Tyler, two best friends who are always up to no good and regularly cause trouble for Sally in the cafe. We want this aspect of the the lads almost living in their own world, in that when they rap there is a change of lighting and an introduction of backing music, paired with a disgusted reaction from Sally in the background. We want this unnaturalistic scene to reflect that the lads think that they are not as cool or good at rapping as they think they are. 

As a group we sat and wrote the scene for the chavvy lads, as well as the rap, which as you can see is quite graphic in content. 

Typed up script for chavvy lads.

Tyler: Fancy a brew mate? 

Nathanial: Yeah man 

Sally: No trouble today lads.  

The LADS watch Sally’s bum as she walks across the room 

Nathanial: No worries love 

Tyler: Phwoar I would bend her like a pretzel. 

Sally: You can have this table over here Lads. What can I get you today? 

Nathanial: Just you on my face would be nice hahaha 

Sally: None of that today Lads…what do you want? 

Nathanial: Coke please precious 

Tyler: Ohh I’ll have one of them lattes lovely 

Sally walks away and Tyler does grotesque hand gesture behind her back. Nathanial begins to yawn 

Tyler: Oi you rude bugger, what you yawning for? 

Nathanial: I was up all night shagging that bird off Tinder 

Tyler: What bird? 

Nathanial: Your Nana 

Tyler: Fuck off talking about me Nana like that, you scruff 

Sally: You two are disgusting 

The LADS high five and go into Rap, rap music starts playing. 

Nathanial: I need pussy, pussy in my friend, If I don’t have pussy my life will end. 

Tyler: My friend needs a hole cos he’s hard as a rock, so open up your tunnel and bounce on me cock 

Nathanial: Let me hear you moan while I pant and groan then I’ll buy you a maccies with my benefits loan 

Tyler: I’ll be a gentle man cos I always pull out, I’ve got no STDs so you can put it in your mouth 

Nathanial: Let me bend you over so I can smash you from behind, I’ll film it on my phone and put it on my rewind. Stop the music a second! (Rap music paused and sound of a woman moaning is played, then rap music begins to play again) When you’re not here I’ll watch it with my mates you’ll have to be careful they might ask your rates 

Tyler: I wanna lick your fanny, I hope you’re not a tranny that would be bad cos I think you’re proper canny 

Fist pump, and try to fist pump Sally but she rejects. 

Lads: And we are out. 

We want to create this aspect of the lads trying to flirt with Sally, but her rejecting their advance towards her. We want the lads to use hand gestures such as making a V shape with their fingers and licking in between their fingers, which is a very sexual symbol. Additionally by having them make comments like "I would bend her like a pretzel" "Just you sat on my face please precious", which are obviously very cringe worthy, which is great as this is how we want the audience to respond to the way the boys act. Obviously this is a very exaggerated stereotype so it is important that although we want it to be funny, we cannot be too derogative as some might find it disrespectful.