ACTERS WANTED!

 ACTERS WANTED !!

 

The speech I will perform is from the play Three sisters, that was written by Anton Chekhov that is a Russian playwright. The play was inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters. The style of the play is a drama.

The character I have forced on is Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova; she is the youngest sister. Her age being 20 in the play, her insits she is grown-up she is still enchanted by small things such as spinning top that is bought to her by Fedotik; therefore she can sometimes come across as childish. The obly desire that she has is to one day go back to Moscow, which they left 11 years ago before the play starts therefore she was only 9 at the time. The reason why she wants to go back is because she believes that one day that her she will find her true love there; sometime in the play it becomes clear that they are not going back to Moscow, ends up marring someone that she do not love called Baron Tuzenbach. After the speech that I perform she ends up getting her teaching degree and decides to leave Barn and dedicates herself to work and service.

So after the speech I do; it has real effect on her and she manages to complete he ambition.  

Three sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the meaning of the modern world, it describes the lives of three sisters and a brother .They is all dissatisfield and frustrated of the present day. The family use Moscow as a symbolic element ; the sisters are always dreaming of returning as they identify Moscon as there happiness as they believe its the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves.

 The reason why I have picked this as speech as I know with my family that there is always that one place that you can relate to that means something to you, therefor e  I can relate back to the play with how they all think of Moscow being there’s.  Also the play is a naturalistic and after weeks of doing this style in other classes (punk rock) I feel that this well show the different skills I have.

 While rehashing this speech at home I found that I fall into a pattern, which can be good but in this case it came as a bad thing as it bought my energy down; therefore to overcome this I had to do different excise such as saying it like a child, whispering, pulling my own body weight and push against a wall. After doing these I found different meaning and different ways to say lines in the speech such as “hard, sweaty, back-breaking work” can me said with tension in the voice where later on when talking about being an ox can be said childish.

 

During this speech i have decied points in my head where i would look, as she is meant to be talking to Olga.