Liam from "Orphan" in this scene is showing remorse to the fact he wants to be like Danny, Liam's Sister's husband, he explains how he wishes he was Danny, but it sickens him that he thinks like this. The play first saw the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in the summer of 2009, its the story of Liam, who first arrives on stage covered in blood explaining that he was helping a victim of a stabbing who was lying in the gutters, but this is however a lie. Helen, his sister, is very loyal to her brother and so is torn between between doing the right thing and get him arrested, or protecting him from his own violent crime.
Paul from "Motortown" is explaining what he thinks of the poor in England, whilst fixing Danny's P.99, his pistol, the first time I read it I thought he was angry about what is happening to this country and so comes across very annoyed, however the gruesome fact about the scene is that he talks about everything so casually in such a vile manner. Motortown is an insight into the Iraq war, it is violent, fierce and controversial. Danny has come back from the war "I don't blame the war. I miss it. Its just you come back to this." is what Danny says, and so from this line you find that his view of England must be revolting. The story follows the difficulties he finds coming back to this estranged place that he fought for, with vivid images of violent torture running through his mind.
I had eventually decided to do Motortown, I felt there was more to work with and on, and it would be interesting to look at the character, Paul, in more depth to understand why he thinks this way, is it because of his brother or was it the way he was brought up, which leads me onto say that I feel that this character is very diverse there are many ways to play the scene and I would like to explore them until I find what's best for me.
The Two classical monologues that I have chosen to look at are Benedict from Shakespeare's "A Much Ado About Nothing" and Mercutio from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", with my classical I was looking for a speech that had fluidity to it making it different in the sense the pace would vary throughout.
The monologue extract for Mercutio is taken from act 1 scene 4 of "Romeo and Juliette" in this scene Romeo, Mecutio and Benvolio are wearing masks, on their way to the Capulate feast, yet Romeo is wondering how they are to get into the feast as they are Montogues. Throughout this scene Mercutio is mocking Romeo, by taking Romeo's words of love and twisting them into innuendos, Romeo explains that he had a dream that going to the fest is a bad idea, and this monologue is Mercutio telling Romeo that he has been visited by Queen Mab a fairies who visits your dreams, the speech tails of into bitter words until Romeo steps in to stop it.
Benedict's speech is taken from act 2 scene 3 of "Much Ado About Nothing", this scene looks at Benedict who speaks his thoughts aloud in the garden, whilst his friends plan how they are to trick Beatrice and Benedict to confess their love for one another, Benedict is explaining how love makes men into idiots, he talks about how Claudio could be turned from a good solider into a soft hearted man, and therefore he believes it is unlikely he will be able to love or be loved.
I have chosen to use Benedict's speech for my classical, as there is a significant difference from my contemporary, although you could say this about Mercutio's monologue he still shows bitterness towards something, just like Paul in Motortown. Also Benedict is very unsure about himself he observes and judges others, without realizing he is only judging the fact that he cannot confess his love for Beatrice, Paul, "Motortown" however is very sure of himself and judges other purely for the fact he can making him more confident in how he judges others so freely.
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