Robbie Carter
Dave Sykes
Emotional Monologue Evaluation
For our emotional monologue we had to recreate a memory and perform it to an audience. I decided to perform an event which happened in my life. It was when my mum and dad was telling me that there were getting divorced. It was hard to open up and present this to the audience as it is very personal and affected me emotionally. It was a risk performing my monologue as it could be too upsetting for me to perform or not as effective as I wanted it to be.
I wanted to base the performance around the thought of fairy tales and how fairy tales mislead you. It opens up the idea that everything is not perfect in your life and things change. It is not as easy as it’s made out in fairy tales. It also shows that you have to mature and develop to get over these situations in life and how it’s affected me mental and emotional used this as an ice breaker to slow reveal the situation I had to face. I think if I start with the hard hitting piece it would been difficult for the audience to be a part off and not as focused and engaged. I wanted to keep my performance simple so the audience were more interested in what I had to say. For my scenery I only used a chair. I wanted my performance to look casually as if it was a basic convocation. I believed this would get the audience more involved and feel the emotion behind it as if there were actually there. I used a lot of eye contacted to make them feel connected and with my body language I was showing that I was tense and nerves like I was talking them my deepest, darkest secret. Used background music to help set the scene (Hope-I don’t know anything). The song fit perfectly as the lyrics are saying how she was happy and now she lost everything. She
