Q1: Either take a photo of your monologue and upload it, or type your monologue onto your blog.
A1: Monolouge for the Hard Sly Man.
You see me in the street... What's the first judgment you have. Dangrous? Sly? Aggressive? No, your are blind. You see only what is put in front of you. You refuse to see beyond an image. Do you see the struggle? No. Do you see the pain, the regret, the lonlyness? Course not. No one ever does... My mum used to say that lying is the worst thing you could possible do. But how can that be true when I wear lies like a mask - and everyone sees my lies - or what they believe to be the truth. This town, they had judged me, branded me and tossed me out because they lapped up the lies like it was the truth. I'm not a bad person... I never have been. I'm just a good person trying hard to corret the mistakes I have made. Yet im trapped inside - reputation from the past, a mask showing every flaw i've ever made. An image - constantly flickering with truth, yet how can I ever be free, if no ones there to see the truth inside of me.
Q2: You then worked in pairs to stage the pieces.
What choices did you make when staging your monologue? Think about how you used your voice and physicality. How did the monologue task help you to understand the play further?
Q3: You performed and watched your peer's work.
What monologue performed by a peer worked well and why? What had they written about? Who performed their monologue successfully and why?
A3: I thought Rory's was very good as the style of the monolouge really stood out. Instead of having a monolouge which that reflected his emotions or an event, he choose to play out a scene yet without the other characters. For example his first line was an answer to a question,which he specified in his line, making the audience wonder what the background context is. This set up then continued and it became clear he was being questioned about the death of his wife, yet any knowledge prior to this scene was not given. This gave a lot of freedom for the audience to fill in what he isn't telling you. It worked well as his character underwent changes during the scene. At first he was presented as a normal guy who looked perfectaly harmless and conserened about the welfare of his wife. As the scene progressed he started to revel a violent nature about him as he started to get very angry and swore to hunt down and kill the women who murdered his wife. It was then reveled that he was the murderer, however it was reveled ion a very effective way. This was done by Rory slowly saying one word and that's 'me'. This then showed us with the last change, he went from violent to aggressivce and then back to what looked like shock and thoughtfull silence about what he has just been told and the horror of the event. It gave me the impression that he actually did care about his wife and the murder although aware of what he was doing wasn't delibarate. It seemed he had some sort of ange managment issues and that caused him to be violent.
Q4: Task 2 - East End research devising task
A1: Monolouge for the Hard Sly Man.
You see me in the street... What's the first judgment you have. Dangrous? Sly? Aggressive? No, your are blind. You see only what is put in front of you. You refuse to see beyond an image. Do you see the struggle? No. Do you see the pain, the regret, the lonlyness? Course not. No one ever does... My mum used to say that lying is the worst thing you could possible do. But how can that be true when I wear lies like a mask - and everyone sees my lies - or what they believe to be the truth. This town, they had judged me, branded me and tossed me out because they lapped up the lies like it was the truth. I'm not a bad person... I never have been. I'm just a good person trying hard to corret the mistakes I have made. Yet im trapped inside - reputation from the past, a mask showing every flaw i've ever made. An image - constantly flickering with truth, yet how can I ever be free, if no ones there to see the truth inside of me.
Q2: You then worked in pairs to stage the pieces.
What choices did you make when staging your monologue? Think about how you used your voice and physicality. How did the monologue task help you to understand the play further?
A2: When staging my monolouge I choose to preform it standing up as my character is speaking out their views, almost preaching, therefore the energy and passion needed for this monolouge can only come from standing up. I choose for my monolouge to be prefromed with me speaking directly to the audience and acknolwedging their exsistance, there is no forth wall. It was the opposite to a preformance that is cut off from the audience and the audience are looking into another world, the fourth wall is in place. When preforming it my voice went through a variety of tones and volume creating a dynamic and effective atmosphere. It also made it very passionate, as my voice wouldraise and accelerate in parts that were particularly important to me, however my voice would then drop and I would speak slowly and quietly in parts that I wanted the auidence to think and reflect on. My phyisicaltiy was projecting confidence as I was speaking out my emotions and trying to get the audience to relfect on their actions, therefore in order to make them believe and convince them that this is the way to think you must be confidence with the ideas you are putting out their. To show confidence meant I stood up straight with my head held high to show no weaknesses. The monolouge helped me enormasly as it almost reflected the subtext.
What monologue performed by a peer worked well and why? What had they written about? Who performed their monologue successfully and why?
A3: I thought Rory's was very good as the style of the monolouge really stood out. Instead of having a monolouge which that reflected his emotions or an event, he choose to play out a scene yet without the other characters. For example his first line was an answer to a question,which he specified in his line, making the audience wonder what the background context is. This set up then continued and it became clear he was being questioned about the death of his wife, yet any knowledge prior to this scene was not given. This gave a lot of freedom for the audience to fill in what he isn't telling you. It worked well as his character underwent changes during the scene. At first he was presented as a normal guy who looked perfectaly harmless and conserened about the welfare of his wife. As the scene progressed he started to revel a violent nature about him as he started to get very angry and swore to hunt down and kill the women who murdered his wife. It was then reveled that he was the murderer, however it was reveled ion a very effective way. This was done by Rory slowly saying one word and that's 'me'. This then showed us with the last change, he went from violent to aggressivce and then back to what looked like shock and thoughtfull silence about what he has just been told and the horror of the event. It gave me the impression that he actually did care about his wife and the murder although aware of what he was doing wasn't delibarate. It seemed he had some sort of ange managment issues and that caused him to be violent.
Q4: Task 2 - East End research devising task
- We never did this exersice in the lesson, so I can't complete the homework.
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