I have been asked recently what my favorite shows (or monologues) that I have been in are and there are several! I haven't done much theatre at all since high school and I do miss it. A lot!! But my schedule doesn't really allow for community theatre. However, I go to see shows usually once or so a year. But here are a few favorite scenes and monologues I have done, in no particular order...
1) Titus Andronicus~ In theatre one year, we broke off into groups to do scene work. I ended up in two groups performing the same part! I performed the roll of Tamora~ Queen of the Goths. It was lots of fun being an awful character! The costumes and makeup was fun for this too. I enjoyed this scene mainly for Tamora's monologue to her sons. ((The scene we did was an incredibly violent scene. (Good job Shakespeare) Where Tamora took Lavinia (Titus' daughter) out into the woods, and her sons violently abused Lavinia, then took out her tongue and chopped off her hands so she couldn't tell anyone what happened.))
2) Misery~ For an audition for a One Act play we were taking to a competition, I performed a monologue from the book/movie Misery. The One Act we were going to do was based on a short story by Stephen King named Quitters, Inc. Therefore I thought a monologue from a Stephen King novel would be appropriate. By using this monologue, I effectively freaked out my class and got the role I was going for!!
3)Tarzan~ For another audition for a One Act play we were taking to another competition, I performed a monologue from the Disney movie Tarzan! This was where Jane was telling her Daddy about the gorillas she saw, and then Tarzan. Until that point, NO ONE had seen me do a "happy, upbeat" character before. I pull off the "bad, dark" characters very well. Imagine their surprise when I came out super excited, with an incredibly happy monologue in which I bounced across the stage like a gorilla =D That was definitely one of my favorite monologues.
4) Medea~ My second year of theatre, we did a unit on Greek Tragedies. Medea was written by Euripides and definitely fits into the Greek Tragedy category. I was not in this show but I did help behind the scenes and do some of the production of the set. This show was awesome and by far one of the best shows the school had ever done. Of course Medea is a play, but our director added music to it, which worked very well. "Too Late For Love" by Def Leppard, "Voodoo" by Godsmack, and "Return to Innocence" were used, as well as a couple others.
5) Oedipus~ Oedipus was a lot of fun to do also! Oedipus was written by Sophocles, in the greek tragedy realm also. This was also done in scene work. In Oedipus, I was cast as Queen Jocasta. The Queen who ended up marrying her son, upon realizing this, kills herself. Which of course you don't see on stage, because this was a greek tragedy. Anyway, a few years later in my senior year English class, we were reading Oedipus. We ended up splitting into groups to do some sort of work and naturally I was grouped with the few people who never did anything. They asked "does anyone understand this?" and I replied, "I was in this show 2 years ago. and No I am not doing all of the work." Lots of fun. But I loved the show!
more later..... =)
WOW! Sorry for writing a book :)
