Unit 7 : individual monologue
The class was given an assignment to find a contemporary monologue from a play. i visited the library and found monologue books which helped me pick out the most amusing monologue for myself so that I could perform it. I decided to choose "Boys" by Ella Hickson. The character is around the same age as i am and he is also performing in a live concert , which in my version would be performing theatre in front of hundreds of people I was intrigued about this particular monologue because i knew the name Ella Hickson from a play that she released in 2013 called Wendy and Peter Pan. I also wanted to learn the monologue because the idea of someone being from the same city as you just inspires you to read and engage with the piece. A couple days later i managed to learn the monologue word for word and now it was just about directing my movement for when I'm on stage. i broke a couple lines down to find the different types of emotion and how the character would e...