Monologue! ♪(p＾＿＾)q

Hello Kirameki!
Jenny here.

Today in my class I had to perform another monologue and just like I posted previously I performed a monologue from Stacy's Shojo: Saisatsu Kageki. Or in English Stacy's Shojo: Girls Re-killing Theatre! o(｀▽´)o I really loved the play so I was very happy to be performing a monologue from it!

The part I performed was when Eiko is on her first date with Shibu-san.
I still played Eiko as very happy and over the top like she is when she is going through the Near Death Happiness stage (the transition before she dies and becomes a Stacy). ∈(･´ー｀･)∋ However, I did change some parts of it so I wasn't mimicking Tanaka Reina's performance. I could perform my own interpretation of it instead and that way was much more effective.

 In the original scene Eiko and Shibu-san are stood up together, and it gives a lot more freedom to the characters to use more body and hand movement on the stage. It's a good effect to the show the carefree, childlike state Eiko is in. However, I changed it so it still had the same effect but in a more inconspicuous way. (^ω^;) I had one of my classmates sit in as Shibu-san and he doesn't speak at all, because he is a bit disengaged in the date due to still thinking of Eiko as a stranger. On the other hand Eiko is still really excited and really starts to love this guy as the last loved one in her life.

I staged it so that instead of the characters standing, I had them sat down together as if they were on a park bench. Shibu-san is not really known to treat a girl properly so he just takes Eiko out to the park, and hopes that that's good enough for her. However, Eiko is in so much euphoria it doesn't make a difference to her, she's just happy to be on a date.

 I thought staging Eiko and Shibu so that they were sat down was very effective and made their words very clear so over the top body movements didn't distract from the dialogue. That way when I acted very childish I let it all build up until I started to daydream as I got into the story about Eiko's fantasy romance with her teacher. I then walked around the stage in a daze, so it created a dreamy, fantastical telling of the story and also highlighted how young Eiko still is.

My monologue was full of various questions in the beginning, so my teacher advised that I ask them really quickly and desperately for an answer, and then cut off Shibu whenever he tried to answer. It made it very funny for the rest of my class with how Eiko was so interested in Shibu but kept cutting him off regardless in my performance.

My teacher really enjoyed the performance, but he did note that sometimes I was a little nervous so it made me forget my lines once or twice with a pause before I continued and got back on track as I tried to memorize the next line before I spoke it out loud. It kind of broke down the flow! He said that he would help me to work on relaxing into the scene so I could really perform my character to the best of my ability because I also glanced at the audience from the corner of my eye from time to time without being aware of it. But apart from that he said that he enjoyed the performance! YAY!

I feel like I performed this monologue much better than my last one.
My teacher said I took notes well so I would be good working with advice from a director.
That's what I'd love to be able to do if I was in a theatre show or a film.

Having a good relationship with a director and being able to understand each other's interpretations is very useful.

I bet this feels like a boring blog post but apart from my monologue, the rest of the day was really crappy! ⋆͛*͛ ͙͛ ⁑͛⋆͛*͛ ͙͛(๑•﹏•)⋆͛*͛ ͙͛ ⁑͛⋆͛*͛ ͙͛ I had a headache all afternoon and I felt really sad too. Without making you feel more depressed, right now I feel like a very good friendship is about to end.

Sorry for the sad ending to this post :(
Love Jenny