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2013 Monologues Unit 1

2013 Monologues Unit 1. Outcome 2 Apply acting and other stagecraft to interpret playscripts from the pre-modern era for performance This area of study requires you to: Choose a monologue from the following monologue list

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2013 Monologues Unit 1

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  1. 2013 MonologuesUnit 1 Outcome 2 Apply acting and other stagecraft to interpret playscripts from the pre-modern era for performance This area of study requires you to: Choose a monologue from the following monologue list Develop a theatrical brief that presents an interpretation of a scene Apply acting and other stagecraft to develop a monologue for performance

  2. Monologue 1 • Play: King Oedipus • Playwright: Sophocles • Character: CHORUS • Gender: Neutral (male or female) Serves the expository function of a chorus • Implied Style: Ancient Greek Tragedy • Setting (TIME): Ancient Greece (around the time of Thebes civil war) • Setting (PLACE): In and around the palace at Thebes • Themes: The unwritten law of fate, the limits of free will, power and determination, the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, willingness to ignore the truth

  3. Monologue 2 • Play: Antigone • Playwright: Sophocles • Character: SENTRY • Gender: Neutral A guard who reports to King Creon • Implied style: Greek tragedy • Setting (TIME): Ancient Greece (around the time of Thebes civil war) • Setting (PLACE): In and around the palace at Thebes • Themes: betrayal, god and religion, choices and consequences, fidelity, citizenship

  4. Monologue 3 • Play: Antigone • Playwright: Sophocles • Character: ANTIGONE • Gender: Female Daughter of King Creon • Implied style: Greek tragedy • Setting (TIME): Ancient Greece (around the time of Thebes civil war) • Setting (PLACE): In and around the palace at Thebes • Themes: betrayal, god and religion, choices and consequences, fidelity, citizenship

  5. Monologue 4 • Play: Hagaromo (The Feather Mantle) • Playwright: (trans. Pound) • Character: HAKURYO • Gender: A traveller • Implied style: Noh Theatre • Setting (TIME): Ancient times, around the 14th Century • Setting (PLACE): Japan • Themes: • http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/noh/PouHago.html

  6. Yr 11 Monologues5 • Play: Aya No Tsuzumi (The Damasz Drum) • Playwright: Attributed to Seami, but possibly earlier (trans. Waley) • Character: THE GARDENER • Gender: Male A poor old gardener from the palace who is in love with the princess • Implied style: Noh Theatre • Setting (TIME): Ancient times, around the 14th Century • Setting (PLACE): Japan • Themes: • http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/noh/WalAyan.html

  7. Year 11 Monologues6 • Play: Matsukaze (Wind in the Pines) • Playwright: (trans. Keene/Taylor) • Character: CHORUS • Gender: Neutral Serving the storytelling function of the chorus • Implied style: Noh Theatre • Setting (TIME): Ancient times, around the 14th Century • Setting (PLACE): Japan • Themes: • http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/noh/matsuindex.html

  8. Year 11 Monologues7 • Play: Macbeth • Playwright: Shakespeare • Character: The PORTER • Gender: Male Porter of Macbeth’s castle • Implied style: Elizabethan Theatre • Setting (TIME): Elizabethan Era, around the 15th Century • Setting (PLACE): The moors of Scotland • Themes:

  9. Year 11 Monologues8 • Play: Twelfth Night • Playwright: Shakespeare • Character: VIOLA • Gender: Female • Implied style: Elizabethan Theatre • Setting (TIME): Elizabethan Era, around the 15th Century • Setting (PLACE): On an island, shipwreck of… • Themes:

  10. Year 11 Monologues9 • Play: The Two Noble Kinsmen • Playwright: Shakespeare • Character: Prologue/Epilogue • Gender: Neutral Porter of Macbeth’s castle • Implied style: Elizabethan Theatre • Setting (TIME): Elizabethan Era, around the 15th Century • Setting (PLACE): • Themes:

  11. Year 11 Monologues10 • Play: That Scoundrel Scapin • Playwright: Moliere • Character: SCAPIN • Gender: Male Porter of Macbeth’s castle • Implied style: Renaissance • Setting (TIME): 1700s • Setting (PLACE): Alleyways of France, on a dark street corner • Themes:

  12. Year 11 Monologues11 • Play: The Impostures of Scapin • Playwright: Moliere • Character: ZERBINETTE • Gender: Female • Implied style: Renaissance • Setting (TIME): 1700s • Setting (PLACE): Alleyways of France, on a dark street corner • Themes: • http://www.monologuearchive.com/m/moliere_025.html

  13. Year 11 Monologues12 • Play: Tamburlaine the Great, Part One • Playwright: Christopher Marlowe • Character: TAMBURLAINE • Gender: Male A Scythian shepherd and a nomadic bandit who takes control of the Persian Empire • Implied Style: Elizabethan Drama • Setting (TIME): 1590s • Setting (PLACE): set around Ancient Wars and royalty in Persia, Egypt, Turkey and Babylon • Themes: Renaissance humanism, immense power, death, revenge, war, religious

  14. Monologue13 • Play: Tamburlaine the Great, Part One • Playwright: Christopher Marlowe • Character: ZENOCRATE Daughter of the Egyptian King who is wooed by Tamburlaine • Gender: Female • Implied Style: Elizabethan Drama • Setting (TIME): 1590s • Setting (PLACE): set around Ancient Wars and royalty in Persia, Egypt, Turkey and Babylon • Themes: Renaissance humanism, immense power, death, revenge, war, religious

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