Monologue Reflections

Hello again!

For this past week, all of the girls including myself in my acting elective have memorized and preformed a monologue. We all had chosen one that we liked and had brought it to the class. I preformed one by Shakespeare, a monologue form Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was from Helena’s perspective and how betrayed she felt from her best friend Hermia. I really enjoyed my monologue and learned a lot in the process of memorization, and adding emotion and creating Helena my own character. I had a hard time with memorization at first, but I found the more I read it, the easier it became to become Helena and not trip up on the old english words.

My classmates also did a beautiful jobs on their monologues. For example, Lexie had done a monologue from her favorite television show Glee. At the beginning of her memorization I thought the monologue was going to be boring. But, at her final recitation I was certainly proven wrong. Lexie did a beautiful job portraying Rachel and also she made the monologue her own. So in the end, you didn't think of Rachel when she did the monologue, you thought of Lexie. I think personally her monologue was very good because you could tell that she was passionate about what she was saying. I find when you do things you enjoy they always turn out better.

Sam, Jeminah, and Maddie also had very strong monologues. Although I won’t go into extensive detail about all of them, they were most certainly amazing. Sam, did a great job being Charlie Brown. She was awkward, witty, and nervous all standout traits of Charlie Brown. Jeminah’s monologue was very powerful. When she was doing it you could feel her anger, her sadness. It literally took my breath away. For Maddie, she had a hard time memorizing because she was sick, but she persevered and still delivered a great monologue. In conclusion, I really enjoyed this assessment and hope we do more things like it. It was a great experience to learn a monologue in a controlled amount of time and make it wonderful. I am so proud of myself and my classmates. Great job girls! 

- Lindsay