Directing the Monologue
Questions for the director and actor
What are the given circumstances of the monologue?
What are the actor's choices and the actor's objective in
creating the character (and the monologue)?
What notes do you - the director - give for:
- personalizing the role
- body centre
- sense memory
- substitution
- emotional / emotion memory
- the voice and embodiment at position 1
What is the subtext?
What notes do you - the director - give on concentration on
the 'imaginary object'?
Ditto for creating the 'play environment' for the monologue?
You - the director - work out the microphone positions if
the script demands other than position number 1.
Note technical terms:
- shift - from position to position at the microphone (for
the actor)
- turn - from the waist to deal with raised volume (and
avoid blasting at the microphone) feet positions must remain
at the 'mark' (the actor must not move the feet)
- head concentration - work with the head is very important
for the actor here (the actor has to keep head focus)
- moves - blocking further off
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