Facts on Restoration Theatre

-         The names of the characters matched there character e.g. wife steeling john

-         There was female writers such as Cathron Trotter

-         People spoke to the actors on stage

-         The audience attended to be upper class people

-         They used candles for the lightning on the stage

-         People started to watch the actors and observe them

this is one why to play my monolouge but i wanted to make mine more modern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYtVw_jgzxA

Today we were in the dance studio and we had to rehears on our monologues and I finished learning it then I thought now all I need to do is try and figure out how I am going to perform it , so then I thought well one thing is that there is someone in the room with me so I shouldn’t just talk to someone random because they wont know that someone is in the room with me.

Later Sonya asked us all to come in one bye one and perform our monologues and I performed mine and the feedback that she give me was: that I should pronounced the end of my word more because it is old English and it is hard to understand and that why I should pronounce it better she also said that I should think about how I am going to stage it and that I should have a pause in there somewhere and also slow it down a little.

Yesterday we were in the theatre and we were rehearsing out scenes in finding it so hard to remember the script because it is in old English

And I have allot to remember so I thought that if I get up and try and act out the scene so that the lines would sink in better, it helped allot then I decided to change the way I talk because I thought my character is quite old so that’s how I should come across.

I also thought that I should be quite demanding towards my maid

In the morning we also got told to sit down and discuss something’s to do with out scene so our group with Pip, Chloe and Demi so we thought that we should set down the costumes and the props and so we thought that even though it is set in Victorian times why dose it haft to come across as that I mean we have the old English but why cant we make it modern.

So we diced to make the costume quite modern as well as the room set out so the props that we needed is empty paint tins, a mirror, sheets and also brandy bottles.

The meaning of some words from monologue 

2.  bedlams, hags.

7.  close contriver, secret plotter.

13 . Loves for his own ends, follows you for his own purposes.

15 . the pit of Acheron, In classical mythology Acheron is one of the rivers of Hades. The "pit" may be taken here as meaning some dark ravine, or cave, supposed to lead down to the lower world.

20.  I am for th' air, I must fly up.

24 . profound, ready to fall.

26.  sleights, devices.

27 . artificial sprites, spirits called up, made visible, by magic art.

32.  security, confidence.

34.  my little spirit, my familiar demon.

35 . a song.

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/rendrama.htm

Notes

What happened during Shakespeare Time-

In 1544 king henry the 8’Th in invaded France so that’s why Shakespeare had a lot of plays based on violence and war

In 1585 England and Spain go to war

In 1593 the Paige forced theatres to close  

In 1605 there was the gun powder plot