27/11/14 Task 1 quesions 1 - 4

27/11/14 Task 1 Questions

Q- What choices did you make when staging your monologue? Think about how you used your voice and physicality.

Well Matilda was staging my monologue and since our monologues were very similar and about the same tale and in response to the same character we quickly read through both and thought of a way to divide it. We realised that Matilda's monologue was about the man' and woman's relationship before the domestic abuse came along, and my one was about when the domestic abuse was happening.

Matilda thought it would be best to have levels in my monologue because my character ends up killed as well as the twins. So I am basically having last thoughts and an over view of the last few moments of my life whist I am dying. I take it slow and build up the tension as I gradually get higher in my levels and faster to resemble my anger building inside of me, and I let it out my pushing down the chair to show the immediate drop in our relationship.

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

It allowed my to look deeper into the mind of my character and empathise with her. Also live her story I can get a better understanding of why she feels a certain emotion at one point.

Q- Who performed their monologue successfully and why?

Roseby's monologue was very successful because she had the classes attention the whole time that when the timer was up the teacher didn't want her to stop. She was very interactive with the audience and creative to put on a different accent that was obviously not from the East End. But that's what made it really interesting and engaging.