September 17th, Thursday
As homework we were told that we should get a monologue that we would want to perform and bring it in. I chose a monologue from Sweeney Todd where I played Mrs Lovett. It was the monologue before the song "Try The Priest" where Mrs Lovett is trying to calm Sweeney down with a drink after he has just murdered Pirelli. All of the class, unprepared, where called up the front to perform the monologue in anyway they wanted. I tried not to base mine from the film as much as possible and I borrowed Charlie to act as Sweeney because I find he is really easy to work with and I work really well with him. I wanted to play Mrs Lovett in a totally different way to how Helena Bonham Carter does in the film because I wanted to show my range of skills within drama. I tried to make the monologue as flirty as possible by sitting on Charlie's lap, stroking his hair and chin, constantly bending forward over him and kissing his cheek. I did this because Mrs Lovett is supposed to be madly in love with Sweeney and I thought it was important to show this in the short amount of time I had. Miss Cordell, after seeing me perform it the way I would, gave me advice and asked me to perform the monologue in a "posh" voice. I did this as it is important to show that I can vary my performance style as they would want me to do this in an audition environment. I did this and Miss seemed quite happy.
Overall, I am happy with how todays lesson went and feel that it was help to me to watch everybody else's interpretations on their individual monologues. I feel that everyone is settling into their own individual style of performing and I love watching this happen in class.
Next lesson I hope that I will grow in confidence and the class will work well together once more.
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