Ollie helped me with my opening which last lesson I felt was weak. Together we arranged it so I'm lying across three chairs as a bed and I'm snoring and tossing and turning which leads to me falling out of bed and awakening in shock. I then added donkey noises and kicking my leg backwards as it represented Bottom's dream of becoming a donkey. I then thought it would be even funnier if instead of falling off the chairs one side, I would fall off the other side which meant tipping the chairs whilst kicking in my sleep. Although this was very humorous when performing it to Ollie, I didn't want to risk breaking the chairs or hurting myself in the fall so I just stuck to falling off.
After running through the monologue multiple times, I performed it to the class and received the following notes:
- Stop furrowing your brow, it's okay at the beginning but when you're talking about your dream seem amazed not confused.
- Start laughing gradually, don't burst into laughter straight away.
- Use your diaphragm when calling for your friends as you'll wreck your voice.
- You have a script in your hand so use it. Don't ad lib because you said thought too much.
Next lesson, we will work on our contemporary monologues.
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