13/05/13 Discussion Session

In this session we sat down as a group and each individually discussed our ideas and opinions towards our monologues and then finally performed them to each other at the end.

At the start of my discussion I started to talk about the whole play context:

Story about a boy and a girl fall in love and want to get married however is from rival families. Romeo becomes banished from the city because he kills Tybalt after a fight, Juliet's family makes her marry Count Paris. This forces her to approach Friar Lawrence, who gives her a potion to make her appear dead, but Romeo thinks she is really dead causing him to kill himself and so does Juliet after realising he killed himself

I then started to talk about my character/Monologue using these ideas:

Friar Lawrence:

• Becomes emotionally attached
• Wants to end family feud
• After Romeo is banished, he tries to get them back together through the sleeping potion plan
• After tragedy he cannot handle the guilt, to ease his pain he explains the story of what happened to the duke who could banish him.

Why Its Appropriate:

• Different from previous characters
• My previous characters were very comical and exaggerated which is in contrast to Friar who is down to earth
• Different personality 

Challenge of the monologue:

• Not only language barrier but getting emotion of message through
• Physical movements need to be engaging but not exaggerated