My Three Monologues

Schools:
Arts Ed                                     1 Contemporary, 1 Classical
Oxford School of Drama         1 Contemporary, 1 Shakespeare

My Strengths
Panicky Characters
Nasty Characters

My Weaknesses
Romance
Manly


I've decided to do act 3 scene 3 "Tis torture, not mercy" from Romeo and Juliet because I feel it suits my strength of panicky character and suits both my schools criteria. Also the other Romeo and Juliet monologue uses too many of my weaknesses including but not limmited to my inexperiance with playing romantic characters. I'm not going to do the Macbeth monologue because of the 25 year age gap, I don't feel like I could portray the role as well as the sixteen year old Romeo.

I’ve decided to do the final speech of Christopher from the play ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’ for Oxford School of Drama. I’m thinking about this character because I feel it will show great characterization and due to the research involved in the character will show effort and thought in the character. I picked this monologue because I felt it is a powerful moment in the play as it is when the audience realise that this child’s dreams won’t come true. I feel that during the play Christopher is always talking about his goals to be an astronaut and I think that the audience react in the same way that they will react to a child saying they want to be a superhero. However at this moment we are reminded that Christopher isn’t a child with naïve dreams; he is a very logical teenager who has a plan for his life but he won’t be able to do some of the things he wants to do because of his autism and the audience feel crushed that his dreams probably won’t happen.

I've also decided to do the monologue "Demons" for Arts Ed as I feel it could bring out my strength of a nasty character and show my interpretation of the character and the situation. I feel like I could portray the fear and desperation that the character is feeling in this moment quite well. I decided against performing "Before You Punch Me" because I fear I won't be able to portray the romance and love the character has in the moment as well as I could portray the fear and desperation in "Demons"