Thur 11th Nov

Q: What choices did you make when staging your monologue?  Think about how you used your voice and physicality. - I stood up but hunched over, because I wanted to show that the character I was playing was older. I did an east end accent but with a more quieter and slower tone to show that the character was an elderly women.

Q: How did the monologue task help you to understand the play further? - It helped me to understand that the play is all about a normal town where everybody puts on a kind of front. And behind this wall they've put up, they each have their own problems, even the characters who aren't even a main part. It also helped to see that the play is very much like everyday life in the fact that everyday someone is hiding something, or someone is sad, and sometimes it can be our closest friend or our family but we wont know. So it helped me understand how the play is trying to say something, its trying to say that everyone has something wrong or something to hide, so we should always try to be our nicest to people, because we don't know what they could be dealing with. 

You performed and watched your peers' work:

Q:  What monologue performed by a peer worked well and why?  What had they written about? - I like Glorias because she used rhyme which relates a lot to the play, because most the play is in rhyme. She wrote about the women who was abused by her husband. The words she used and they way she rhymed them were so powerful that it really made you stop and think and listen to everything she said and when she finished it was like a blur because i was transfixed in her performance. I think it was the passion she said each word with and how she talked about a very serious subject but did it respectfully. 

Q:  Who performed their monologue successfully and why? - I think Antonia performed hers successfully because she used personification to show that her character was being beaten and I thought that was really effective and also related to the play, as in some of the scenes in east end tales there is personification. 

You then continued to work on your tale in your groups.

Q:  What was effective about how you brought the characters, atmosphere and location of your tale to life?- We really worked as a team this time round and I think it was our best piece yet. We used are bodies to show a cash till and each one of us was a part of it and we made noises to go with the part of the machine we were playing.

Q: How did you use the Physical Theatre style?- We moved our bodies in a way that the machine would work, eg. I was the part that made the 'kerr-ching' noise so I moved up and down like the movement i thought it would make.

Q:  What ideas do ;you have for staging the rest of the tale?- I think there should be a range of levels throughout the play, to give an effect of class and emotion, eg. if your sad your be lower down then someones whos happy. And i think people should be spread out all across the stage, some in corners while some in the centre.