1.   Go through your script tale by tale and work out the character that you are. Write about each character briefly. 

Tale 1- I think I and the rest of the girls are all playing the same character and we are the main character’s internal thoughts.

Tale 2- (I am not in this tale.)

Tale 3- In this tale I play a punter in the pub who witnessed the fight between Jack and someone else.

Tale 4- In this Tale I play the elderly one who is being helped with her shopping.

 Tale 5- I Think I play the teenager in the house who is telling the story for what happened to the family next door.

Tale 6- (I am not in it).

Tale 7- In this tale I play someone who is working night shifts at a corner shop with his family, at their own family run business, who is talking about the different types of customers that come in to his shop. 

2.   Next, write out some of your lines from each tale and next to the line write your OBJECTIVE for saying the line. Think about why you are saying the line and this will help you with finding how you might say this.

Tale 1-  ‘ Cos his hard.’ -  He  doesn’t show his feelings because he thinks it would make him weak.

Tale 1- ‘ Even the traffic stops for him when he crosses the road’ - Everyone finds him intimidating.

Tale 3- ‘ But his past is where it’s really snowing’ – He has had a really bad past.

Tale 4-  ‘ Nobody’s ever helped me before’- I don’t see many people any more, no one comes to visit, so thank you for helping me, it means a lot.

Tale 5- ‘ Puts the volume back on, cranks it up’- He thinks if he can’t hear it and ignores it, then it’s not really happening.

Tale 5- ‘ We, we, we, we live next door to you, we, we ,we we hear things’- We know he hits you please just ask for my help and I will give it to you.

Tale 5-  ‘ And the next, and the next, and the next’- It keeps happening, I know I should do something, but I can’t.

Tale 7- ‘seven forty-one please’- I don’t have time for this, you heard what I said.

Tale 7- ‘You picked um up’- Why are you trying to cause an argument?’

Tale 7- ‘that’s seven forty-one please’ – Don’t come to our shop and try and cause trouble, you got it?