Transcript 2013 Monologues year 11x

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
• Develop a theatrical brief that presents an
interpretation of a scene
• Apply acting and other stagecraft to develop
a monologue for performance
Monologue
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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
Monologue
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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
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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
Monologue
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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
Yr 11 Monologues
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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
Year 11 Monologues
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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
Year 11 Monologues
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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:
Year 11 Monologues
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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:
Year 11 Monologues
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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:
Year 11 Monologues
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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:
Year 11 Monologues
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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
Year 11 Monologues
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• 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
Monologue
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• 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