Piecing together a monologue

[nodaybut2day1205]

Piecing together a monologue#1

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:44pm

Hey, I posted this on the student board, but it's only gotten like 14 views and no responses in a couple of hours so I'm posting it here, I hope that's ok.

I'm thinking about doing a monologue from A Raisin In The Sun. Beneatha has a pretty large chunk of speech herself that I was going to use, but it's interrupted in a few places by Asagai, and I know that it's possible to just eliminate those lines....however, his lines aren't just "yes, go on.." sort of lines- she actually responds to them. Here's an example:

Beneatha: It used to matter. I used to care. I mean about people and how their bodies hurt...
Asagai: And you've stopped caring?
Beneatha: Yes- I think so.
Asagai: Why?
Beneatha: Because it doesn't seem deep enough, close enough to the truth.

Asasai's second line is an easy one to work around, but what about the first one? Should I change my line to incorporate the fact that I've stopped caring, or is that totally out of the question?

[husk_charmer]

re: Piecing together a monologue#2

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:46pm

I would change it to "And I think I've stopped caring."

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[nodaybut2day1205]

re: Piecing together a monologue#2

Posted: 3/4/07 at 4:45pm

Would that be appropriate for an audition?

[Weez]

re: Piecing together a monologue#3

Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:15pm

I'd say it's fine. The auditioners want to know how well you can act, and if this would make a monologue you can perform well, then go for it. If they're going to get caught up in the fact you did a slight - and wholly understandable - alteration to the script, then something tells me they'd be too uptight to work with anyway. ^_^

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