Practical Session #3 | Emilia Classical Monologue

Because Beth and I were doing the same classical monologue we decided to go through our lines and make sure we knew them well enough. We wanted to be at a stage where we could quickly say them without consciously trying to remember so we did a few exercises;

• saying the whole monologue over and over as quickly as we could
• saying it with alternate lines each, then swapping whilst trying to keep the rhythm

I feel this really helped me and we also talked about some of the definitions and inflections of the words;

• we clarified how we would pronounce "is't" through the principles of iambic pentameter we had learnt
• we discussed how we would apply inflection to "it is so too" aswell as other lines
• The beginning few lines were listed as different points so we wanted to both show this