Contemporary speech :
The contemporary speech i have decided to do for the first assignment is from the play Boys by Ella Hickson, it was published in 2012. The speech is from the character Sophie, sophie is a graduating student who is middle class and from Southern England. This character suites me as its from just a few years older and the same type of background of being in middle class and will have the same accent; during the drama school stage this good work as advantage.
The scene which the speech is from , is based in the kitchen of a student flat in Edinburgh and based in present day around summer time, to whom of Sophie is Mack secret lover. Before the scene takes place Sophie that we know is having a secreyt relationship with Mack. During this She had been going out of Benny's brother Peter, Peter has recently hanged himself; as the evening passes Sophie confesses to Laura that she is in love with Mack; but before anything could happen between them Mack made it clear that Sophie has to choose between him and Peter. Laura then goes on to make the connection between Peter's suicide and Sophie's choice. Immediately after the conversation, Mack enters and a snarmyched moment between then Sophie broaches the subject.
After founding what happens in the play when it becomes putting the emotions in to the speech it has given me more to work on.The things i have to consider during vthe speech I that the play takes place over 24 hours so it has only recently taken place, it is hot as dustbins have not been clear so might feel uncomfortable because of the smell of the rotting rubbish, inside ,the actions is fuelled by drugs and alcohol and last off all what is happening outside, while the flatmates are revelling, a riot is taking place; that will build up of it feeling intense.
During the speech Sophie wants to confess to her lack of feelings about Peter's suicide, to gain reassurance that she ia not a bad person- as she can not feel guit, she is also justify her happiness in the wake of someone else's misery, porfess her love to Mack. This then leaves Sophie vulnerable; I also have to consider what it means to love and to be loved I hate to sound soopy bit at my point of stage in my life I have recently found this with someone therefore I can relate this back to the wjat she is trying to betray. Last of all Sophie is trying to get a response of Mack as she wants him to tell her he loves her to make her feel that it alright .
The reason why I choose this speech was the it was only published a few years ago in fact two and is put into a issue that could happen in any day as dose for some young people out there, I also fsel that I will be able to show my skills and powerful emotions based on some of tge keywords such as guilt, grief, feel joy and peace during this and it something that I have never done. With such a powerful and emiontal twist to it.
I have chosen this speech to start getting it up on my feet i really had to get into the charactar to do so; so ive done the reseach ive tried just standing there a speaking it with emtion with some parts it worked. ive also recived fed back from friends and family and they adviced me to really work on knowing it and understind the sub lines between each line. this helpped me bring more emtion to it.
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