Monologues:

TASK 1 – MONOLOGUES

Here's my monologue:

We then worked in pairs to stage the pieces. 

When staging the monologue I made the choice to have my character at a low level (floor level) to create a small, narrow, intimidating effect. I wanted my character to appear in this way because she felt very cowardly and ashamed, she blamed herself for something she had power to do but with little persuasion chose not to do until it was too late. This in turn made her a bit crazy and she very literally let the guilt eat away her own humanity until she was just a murmuring crazy lady with voices in her head. At this point her husband had divorced her and she is locked away in a mental asylum (where her monologue takes place). Throughout the performance she gave very little eye contact, constantly staring at one spot on the floor and moving her hands and fingers in an obscure way. I also chose to have her speech pace always varying and she continued to trail off of what she was previously talking about.

                                                                                        

The task helped me to understand the play further because it gave me the opportunity to analyse the after effects of the scene (it was during this exercise that I was able to chose whether my character learned anything from their experience or whether it all went to their head). 

We performed and watched our peer's work.

Roseby and Rory had brilliant monologues, Roseby put on a Scottish accent and was all ‘girl power, yeah!’ and vey unpredictable, she screamed at one point and I’m pretty sure she frightened everyone in the room. She talked about the good old days and how she would smoke pot ect. It was just a really nice performance that was enjoyable to watch, I’m not 100% sure what character she was playing but that might have just been me. Rory's performance was also very cleverly written, it was the abuser of the mum and their twins in Tale 5. This performance had the best twist on it in my opinion; he was the murderer of his girlfriend and his two infants only he didn’t know/couldn’t remember what her did. The scene consisted of him being interviewed (he created an interview by taking advantage of the audience and imagined that we had asked him the questions to which he answered in a ‘full sentences manor’ where he kind of repeated the question before answering it), he was absolutely frantic at the news of the deaths in his family and when the interviewer asked him who killed his family, he was enraged and threw a chair to the ground shouting something along the lines of “I don’t know who, you tell me”, to this he got the news that it was himself and the realization slowly sunk in, then the monologue ended. I presume the character was either so pissed that he couldn’t remember a thing or that he had schizophrenia and maintained a split personality. The fact that Rory also broke the forth wall however made sure that it didn’t seem like he felt the audiences present was also very unique.

I thought that was a brilliant perception of the play and how the character could be, it has also helped me to build imagery of this character in my head and I will continue to use his monologue as a stimulus to continue to analyse him further.

 WE DID NOT DO ANY OF THI IN CLASS!

TASK 2 - East End research devising task

Using the articles given to you about the East End, you created another East End Tale in a small group. This was how the writer created EET originally.

You were given one of these articles:

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/crimecourt/bethnal_green_teen_jailed_for_attempted_murder_1_3848926

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/the-moment-gang-shoots-volley-of-fireworks-at-a-passing-police-car-in-east-london-9850706.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fancy-cockroaches-with-your-curry-bugs-found-scuttling-along-floor-of-indian-takeaway-9763423.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/thousands-of-fish-found-mysteriously-floating-dead-in-east-london-park-lake-9751637.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/police-appeal-after-black-man-racially-assaulted-in-childrens-playground-9727163.html

Q - What choices did you make with your group to make one of these articles into an East End Tale? Why? 

Q - How did you make the new tale you created like the tales in the play?

Q - Which character did you play and how?

Q - Which theatre skills did you use to perform the tale? 

I think I achieved a D1 because I think I was able to understand a character in depth, I managed to discover the next door neighbour of the abused woman in Tale 5 and then chose to base my monologue on how she was affected by the death. By doing this it helped me to capture the character's day to day life and how she would most likely act in certain situations, which in turn will hopefully help me be that character with ease.