Thursday 4th December 2014

Thursday 4^th December 2014

Task 1- Monologue
So I was born in Bangladesh. Me nan and that still live out there. Moved ‘ere when I was what 18? 19? Sum’ink like that. Became a cab driver- driving ‘ere and there, round and about. I travel round the ‘ole of East End you’know. I love my job. Sorry, sory, you see people fink I wtalk too much. Can’t help it, its how ive always been. Got a baby on the way. Wanna call her Lilly, wanna know why?

I once ‘ad this old lady about 80 odd. She wan’ned a lift somewhere. Poor woman I could tell she was really desperate she was scared- bless her. She ‘ad some young boys behind her absolutely pissed outta their brains swing bottles round their heads lke hoolagoons. (impression of the boys) So you’know done her a favour, and gave her a lift back ‘ome.

You see this lady was so, so, so inspiring to me.  She taught me a lot about life that I never knew in my 38 years of livin’. She helped me control my anger. I have anger problems youknowwarimean?? But it’s not my fault- I swear and I apologise deeply if anyone ever has to witness my anger.

The problem is that when I was a child my dad was abusive. He used to hit my mother badly, he used to smash (stand up and throw chair across room) her against the wall and pound her until she was bleeding from every paw. He was a drunk. An abusive drunk. And as soon as my mum had to go into hospital, it was my turn. He did the same to me. That’s what the scars are from. Him. You see, I’m just a broken child. A scared, broken, little child.

Task 2
In our scenes in East End Tales, my group is very abstract in our performing and we like to act emotions, weather and the atmosphere more than a realistic scene between people. So for each of our performances they are mainly acting out the atmosphere and we do this by using our body and instruments. For example; patting our feet to create a drum noise or using our mouths and voices to create rain etc. Therefore our performance was quite effective and it was mainly up to the audience of what they interpreted the performance as. Three skills we used in our piece were sound, body language and abstract theatre.

Task 3
We communicated our sound and movement by using our body language and voices as instruments to create different atmospheres and sounds. This was effective because it was something different than to acting I have performed in the past. I enjoy acting more abstract theatre because I find that you can incorporate dance and music with the theatre and I enjoy music and dance as well, so it is very fun and energetic.