In the morning we had a group tutorial and learnt more about classical theatre, how it started, evolved and the large quantity of styles it contains. e.g roman, medieval, shakespeare, restoration.
After lunch we went to the dance studio, as a few of us hadn't managed to find a suitable monologue yet (for our monologue work), we went to the LRC to search for one. My monologue is from the Miser (a restoration comedy play), the character is Frosine, she is a match-maker who thinks theres nobody on earth she can't pair off! in the monologue shes trying to convince Harpagon (a rich but greedy man) that she can match him up with Marianne (a young, poor yet pretty girl in his neighbourhood). Once everybody had a suitable monologue, we had a quick disscusion about them before heading back down to te LRC to do some independant research, this was about our monologues and the time period in which they were set. i found a couple of useful links which taught me about the play itself, the characters and restoration comedy (time-period).
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/ajb/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Restoration_comedy.html
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/Miser.html
I also found a video which is from a movie of the miser, seeing somebody elses interpretation of the part was helpful and inspired some ideas. the monologue is differently worded in it but means the same.
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