Wednesday: Wednesday’s class was a single lesson, in which we had more time to memorize our monologues. I used this time to just read mine over and over again, and by the end of the lesson I had the first half memorized. I chose a longish monologue because I wanted to challenge myself and I usually have no trouble forgetting lines. My full monologue is this…
Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she.God rest all Christian souls!.
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me: but, as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd,.I never shall forget it,.
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
My lord and you were then at Mantua:.
Nay, I do bear a brain:.but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge:
And since that time it is eleven years;
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then my husband.God be with his soul!
A' was a merry man.took up the child:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'
Friday: In today’s theatre class we started with a warm up. First we shook it out and then we did vocal exercises such as riddles (My mother makes me mash my minny m & m’s on a Monday morning) and (how much would a woodchuck chuck? If a wood chuck could chuck wood?). Then we were giver 25 minutes to get ourselves sorted. I quickly got my costume on and practised in front of the changing room mirror plenty of times. My actual performance we well I think considering I only had a week to learn it. I stumbled on one line but I think I recovered fairly well. Then after the performances were over, Brit gave us a quick introduction to Realism Theatre.
Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she.God rest all Christian souls!.
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me: but, as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd,.I never shall forget it,.
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
My lord and you were then at Mantua:.
Nay, I do bear a brain:.but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge:
And since that time it is eleven years;
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then my husband.God be with his soul!
A' was a merry man.took up the child:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'
Friday: In today’s theatre class we started with a warm up. First we shook it out and then we did vocal exercises such as riddles (My mother makes me mash my minny m & m’s on a Monday morning) and (how much would a woodchuck chuck? If a wood chuck could chuck wood?). Then we were giver 25 minutes to get ourselves sorted. I quickly got my costume on and practised in front of the changing room mirror plenty of times. My actual performance we well I think considering I only had a week to learn it. I stumbled on one line but I think I recovered fairly well. Then after the performances were over, Brit gave us a quick introduction to Realism Theatre.