The role I am playing was created for a woman of the age,
35-40.
The dialogue was written for female performers, but there is
no set dialogue or specific characters in the play, or even a prescribed number
of actors required.
We choose to create the play into a duologue form as we felt
that it reminisced better on the past events of the play and could help focus
on what we felt was one of the key moments of the performance. The ladies are
artists who are addicted to alcohol and drug use.
In this key extract my character has just lost one of her
close friends to cancer and is coming to terms with this loss. An old friend of
hers re-enters the life of the women and invites them all to her mansion to
recover their losses. She is struggling highly to come to terms with their loss
and has a lot of anger towards Sally (the old friend) for not being there to
support them. They travel to her mansion and spend a night together drinking
and reminiscing on the past.
My character is feeling a range of emotions in this key
extract, including mourning the loss of her friend and feeling anger towards
Sally. She is motivated to rebuild this friendship to make the pain easier.
I interpret my character to be a very loud, outgoing
character, who has views she will put across and determination. Loud vocals
with sharp physical movement to show this.
