As you worked on your monologue, what were the most significant decisions you made about the use of the performance space? How effective were your decisions?" 25 marks
The monologue that I have chosen, Adele’s monologue from shakers by john godber and jane Thornton, deals with the challenges young women face by society and its views of abortion, humiliation, betrayal of trust and the decisions which rightly or wrongly young women are sometimes forced to take without proper support and are indeed sometimes driven by naiveite and innocence.
One of the most significant decision I made regarding spacing was the use of two blocks in the centre of the stage at the beginning of the monologue my character sits here with carol, indeed for the most …show more content…
Choreographing my movements around the stage to chime with fixed key points in the narrative such as when I say” Mr coats well mike” I stand and walk over to the corner of the stage as if I’m telling a big secret. This allows me to shape the dramatic action in that location on the stage and when the character moves on with her “tale” I can mover both physical and figuratively to a new position on the stage. This helps me as the actress to shape key events but also to demonstrate the mental and physical journey which the character undertakes.
The monologue deals with both intensely personal mental struggles but also significant physical changes. Whilst it is possible to portray some of the mental anguish Adele suffers through by emphasising certain words and phrases such as “I knew I’d better not” and using different pitches and using different methods of verbally delivery. It is important however that we utilize as much movement on the stage as possible to demonstrate the physical changes she is …show more content…
Contrasts between noise and levels helped keep my monologue interesting to the audience and indeed kept the story flowing. During my monologue, I tried to create and indeed didn’t find it hard for people to naturally emphasis with Adele her story whilst truthful can be funny and lots of people emphasise automatically. When Adele says she had an abortion I wanted to make a quite reflective atmosphere by sitting down speaking slowly and quiet, and this helped the audience truly feel Adele’s pain.
If I could redo my monologue I would probably emphasise more important parts of the monologue like “he didn’t force me to sleep with him” through vocal and physical representations such as speaking in definite manner i.e. raising my voice and put a higher inflection at the end of my sentence. I could also when saying “Mr Coates well mike” put on a coat in irony and then when talking about “asked for an abortion” take it off as if severing the ties toward this man whilst adding some humour to the situation when considered deeper it will help portray the true feeling of a scared young
The monologue that I have chosen, Adele’s monologue from shakers by john godber and jane Thornton, deals with the challenges young women face by society and its views of abortion, humiliation, betrayal of trust and the decisions which rightly or wrongly young women are sometimes forced to take without proper support and are indeed sometimes driven by naiveite and innocence.
One of the most significant decision I made regarding spacing was the use of two blocks in the centre of the stage at the beginning of the monologue my character sits here with carol, indeed for the most …show more content…
Choreographing my movements around the stage to chime with fixed key points in the narrative such as when I say” Mr coats well mike” I stand and walk over to the corner of the stage as if I’m telling a big secret. This allows me to shape the dramatic action in that location on the stage and when the character moves on with her “tale” I can mover both physical and figuratively to a new position on the stage. This helps me as the actress to shape key events but also to demonstrate the mental and physical journey which the character undertakes.
The monologue deals with both intensely personal mental struggles but also significant physical changes. Whilst it is possible to portray some of the mental anguish Adele suffers through by emphasising certain words and phrases such as “I knew I’d better not” and using different pitches and using different methods of verbally delivery. It is important however that we utilize as much movement on the stage as possible to demonstrate the physical changes she is …show more content…
Contrasts between noise and levels helped keep my monologue interesting to the audience and indeed kept the story flowing. During my monologue, I tried to create and indeed didn’t find it hard for people to naturally emphasis with Adele her story whilst truthful can be funny and lots of people emphasise automatically. When Adele says she had an abortion I wanted to make a quite reflective atmosphere by sitting down speaking slowly and quiet, and this helped the audience truly feel Adele’s pain.
If I could redo my monologue I would probably emphasise more important parts of the monologue like “he didn’t force me to sleep with him” through vocal and physical representations such as speaking in definite manner i.e. raising my voice and put a higher inflection at the end of my sentence. I could also when saying “Mr Coates well mike” put on a coat in irony and then when talking about “asked for an abortion” take it off as if severing the ties toward this man whilst adding some humour to the situation when considered deeper it will help portray the true feeling of a scared young