Character Study's Monologues.

Paul (Left) Danny (Middle) Jade (Right)
Motor-town by Simon Stephens

The contemporary piece I have chosen to perform is "Motor-town" by Simon Stephens, it's a dark look into the life of Danny and is set just after the Iraq war, the way that the script is written is fantastic the only character to be seen all the time throughout the play is Danny, and the other characters such as Lee, Jade and Paul crop up in different scenes, which allows you to concentrate on Danny and understand where the twists in his life lead him to. Now the character I will be playing is Paul, he is by far my favorite character in the play, purely because he is so eccentric that you grow to understand the character more than the others in the play, with the expectation of Danny, Danny goes to Paul in his shop to get his gun fixed, whilst there Danny meets Jade for the first time and also gets a rather random lecture from Paul that stems from, the meaning of life to what he feels the poor are really like.


Paul is a very observational, and a judgmental person you can tell this by looking at lines such as " It's full of fat kids in football shirts, isn't it? Lovely that. I like it round here more, though. I like the views, you understand?" and also "Good man. Good man. Good man. He's a bit of a weird old cunt though, don't you think?". He talks about some very touchy subjects in a vile manner, that at times makes sense, so I think that he is a very angry man who sees no consequence in what he says for instance he says, "You know the real reason why people tell you to adopt the brace position in the event of an emergency on an aeroplane? It's so the impact of the crash on the neck forces the spinal column into the skull and into the brain and kills you immediately. Rather than allowing you to suffer a prolonged and horrible death. That's the reason why, really." 
I also noticed that he comes across very protective of Jade but in a weird way, and maybe to protective of her, "Can I ask you this? Do you ever get that feeling? When you're in, you're in, you're in say a, a, a, a bar or a restaurant or walking down a street, and you see a girl. A teenage girl. You see the nape of her neck. In her school uniform. With her friends. All pigtailed. And you just want to reach out and touch. You ever get that?"But on top of all of this i think that Paul is a caring person, he is polite in his own way as well as understanding of problems, especially when Danny is talking about his wife's death:And he later talks about 9/11, "They don't let you take anything onto planes any more, Danny. Did you know that? Since 9/11. Fucking nothing. Apart from pens, oddly. They should take pens off you. That's what I think. The pen can be a lethal instrument. You can stab somebody in the eye. Push it all the way in. Cripple them at least. Cut into the brain. Leave them brain damaged. It'd be easy, that. I'd leave the end sticking out, wouldn't you?".

PaulWhat happened to your wife, Danny?

DannyShe got killed.

PaulNo.

DannyWe got robbed. She got shot in the chest.

PaulGood God, Danny, that's awful.

DannyYeah.

PaulWhen was this?

DannyA couple of years ago.

PaulDid they catch the fucker?

DannyYeah. He was a soldier. Some squaddie.

PaulFor God's sake. I'm really sorry to hear that. Aren't you, Jade? Aren't you sorry to hear that?

All sections in Speech Marks were taken from "Act 4" of the play Motor-town. 
I used Drama Online to read the script: http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/motortown-iid-14115/do-9781408167373-div-00000022