Today we continued to work on the play tale, by tale. 

I have learned my lines, by doing this it will hopefully enable me to move the stools and use the lighting more fluidly(our mobile phone torches).

For each tale, even though we are working as an ensemble we all have an individual character within the piece. And each or those characters have their own individual backstory.

Ancient secrets -  During this Tale, my character objective is to stun the audience. This Tale focuses around the unfortunate consequences of a fight in a pub that eventually spilled outside. My role in this scene is to deliver the uncertainty of what actually happened and to convey the distance Jack puts himself to hide the daily reminders of what he once did. I represent the voices in his head that keep him up at night, I am quite literally 'The Ancient Secrets' that so desperately want to escape but are trapped by a guilty conscience. I think I portray this message with the blunt but also slightly snake like tone of voice which enhances the mystery.

Lived next door her and her new boyfriend,
He's only been there a month,
She's got twins from the last one, two girls
Tiny,
Cute,
But pierced ears,
Aged like two,
You know the sort,
Pink,
Like baby pigs.
- In this Tale, my character has been created to give a quick background story of the characters involved. She's also used as a dramatic device in the way that she creates a subtle rise in tension which eventually results with the death of both the Mother and her two infants (murdered by the boyfriend). For instance, the  Tale focuses on the topic of 'Domestic Abuse' and my character speaks pretty much right at the begging of the play, mentioning how she's already had two girls that have a different Father to the boyfriend. This already creates sympathy for the character as she already appears to have lost so much but also continues to loose a piece of herself everyday in her war against herself for fighting for freedom which she never receives. My character objective in this Tale is to simply inform the audience of what 'had been', my character then conveys the message within the text, she implies a message that the audience must work out for themselves and leave a bigger impact.
Whist performing these lines, I try and use quite a chavy, short and sharp tone in the hopes of capturing the familiarity with domestic abuse and the lack of shock from the character. Instead, she carries on, ignoring screams, shouts and bangs as if unaffected by it although she clearly is. She represents about 50% of the population, the half that want to but are too scared to help.

And I swear down,
I swear on my life,
And you got to believe me,
There and then,
The lights flickered,
The lights flickered,
And it was only for a second,
But we made something happen,
We made something change.
............
The lights seemed to flicker,
which I know sounds strange,
But we made something happen,
We made something change.
- In this Tale I am a feisty and possessive girl that is quite a diva and outspoken however at this particular moment in time, has taken a moment to just sit back and relax. She is proud of the change that she has just witnessed between two strangers. The kindness that they have just shared, the community vibes that she has just been a part of. Her character objective is to show that you can find hope anywhere. She  tries to deliver the message of ' there being hope in humanity' and of 'the flicker of hope that we as individuals interact with everyday'. Hope is strange and it jus takes one thing to happen, and that one thing could cause everything to change.


Here are some annotations that I made to the script which show what characters I am etc: