27.11.14

Task 1

Q. what choice did you make when staging your monologue? Think about how you used your voice and physicality.  

Once we had written our monologue we had to make decisions on the staging, for example, physicality and voice. For the physicality, I decided I would start standing up and use the space around me. Then when the emotion of my character changed, as he was talking about being kicked out of his home, which is something that he didn’t like talking about, to portray this I chose to sit down. By doing this, I feel I made the scene more interesting as the scene wasn’t just still and with me sitting down. When deciding on the choice to make for the vocal, I decided to  put on a slight east end accent and I tried to deepen my voice, as the character I played was from the east end  and was male. I also used my voice a lot to help give across the emotion of the character. I did this by not speaking at the same pace and tone, for example, when my character was angry I raised my voice and talked at a faster pace. I feel this helped show my character’s anger and frustration.  

Q. How did the monologue task help you understand the play further?

When studying the play it made me understand the play further, as I feel I now have more of an understanding as to why the play is told in monologues. The reason why I think it is told in monologues is to make you think about things that happen in someone’s everyday life that you don’t really think about. Therefore, It would be told in monologues as it makes it easier to form a connection with the character, also it allows it to bring up loads of different issues. The monologues help me understand that as it made me think more in depth about the character’s situation and made it more realistic for me.

Q. What monologue performed by a peer worked well and why? What had they written about?

A monologue that worked well was Rory’s monologue. His monologue was told in a very unique way, his monologue was based around him being questioned about his girlfriend’s death, I believe he was being interrogated by a detective. This worked well as it made sense and it was easy to follow, yet still really interesting and different to anything I have ever seen. His monologue was from tale 5, he played an abusive boyfriend who murdered his girlfriend. Rory then put his own twist on it and decided that he would be an alcoholic and not remember killing her.

Q. Who performed their monologue well and why?

  In my opinion, I feel that Benji performed this monologue well, as he used the space very effectively. I think this, as he didn’t spend the whole time sitting down and when he moved he did so with purpose. Therefore, it made him have a good stage presence as he looked confident and was comfortable