Double - As you Like it monologue analysis

This is Jaques monologue in the Shakespeare comedy, 'As you like it'. I've gone onto the Internet and was able to find a website which translates Shakespearean language into modern language. I then found the right section of the play in which thekmolgue is given and I have then written down what the translation is next to the monologue. I believe that this will help learn the monologue as it gives me a better understanding on what is being said. 

Double - Writing in character (Jaques)

So I wondered off in the woods and I bumped into this complete and utter fool! He was rather magnificent though, I must say. He suddenly made me think about time. And how one hour you're young and full of energy etc, then the next it's like that part is worn away and is rotting away. Like i had never realised it but I mean, how wonderful. What a wondeful kind of fool this man is, what a glorious day.

Double - DNA, Richard in role writing prt 2

I never really used to like Phil. I mean for god sakes he left me with Brian. He told me to take him to the police station to make up a false accusation. That has ruined that poor mans life. Like sure i'm glad that they never found out about Adam him being killed by Brian but part of me wishes that the truth was out. It's slightly inhumain and Adam was a nice guy. It's just a shame that it's affected Phil so much, he came up with the idea and I just think he beats himself up for it. It was his idea for sure, however it wasn't his fault that everything went up and completly went wrong.

Double - the right plays for me

This is a photo of how I was able to select the right monologue to practice. This is the like the elimination process as such. What I done was found 6 (As you like it wasn't included at this stage) monologues from plays or musicals and done a process of:

1.) Age (how old the character is)

2.) Gender ( the gender of the character)

3.) Strength (does it fit any of my strengths?)

4.) Places (do the university's I study accept these as plays)

In the end, I decided that Richard's monologue at the end of the play would be a good piece to do as I know the play rather well and it also meets most of the criteria.

I then chose 'As you like it' because it is something that one of my university's were looking for and asking people to prepare for as an audition. It also met my criteria as it is a Shakespeare comedy and one of my strengths is a silly type of comedy so I instantly decided that it would be an interesting piece to do. However as much as I'm good at comedy, I don't like Shakespeare that much. But by doing this I believe that it shows that I'm willing to try a piece that I don't like. 

Double - As you like it plot summary

These are the notes that I have made for the plot summary of 'As you like it'. I decided to make this plan as I've never really studied the play before however by doing this, I can learn the basic events that take place and also I get to know the characters.

Double - DNA Researching the script.

In this photo, I have re-typed the dialogue that Richard uses in this monologue. I have highlighted the words that he says and then made annotations around different parts in which I think will help me get into the character of Richard. For example, I have annotated the location or the beginning of the scene as I believe as an actor you need to know the setting and location as it is rather crucial to the story. I've also drew a bubble on the first page and wrote the names and key words that link with the names. This is to help me remember what Richard says people are up to and what they are doing in the current day. 

Double - As you Like it Reasearch

For my research, I was able to find this video on YouTube and it gives a good analysis of the character 'Jaques' who gives the monologue, but also gives a summary of the entire play which is good as it gives you the knowledge of what happens in the play up to the point in which the monologue begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiTbr7rSnWU

Double - As you like it

"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool; a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool;
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,
'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.'
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock;
Thus may we see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
The motley fool thus moral on the time,
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool! A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear."


The Shakespeare play "As you like it" is a classical comedy and a play that the university I wish to attend would like to see in this years auditions. Personally I believe that I would have a good chance at doing this as it's genre is a comedy however, I do really struggle with Shakespeare a lot of the time and am personally not a big fan of his work. 

Double - Writing in role (Richard, DNA)

I feel like I'm the only one trying to get Phil to come back down. Everything has changed so much since the whole Adam situation. Everything was fine. We had it all planned out and then it fell apart so easily and so quickly. And now look at whats happened. I just can't bare to see Phil in this state that he is in all the time. He doesn't eat. He doesn't speak. He just sits there, staring into the distance and it hurts to see how someone who once was like some sort of leader has now gone to a nobody. I just want for Phil to come back and be the person he once was. 

Double - We Will Rock You

This is the monologue for the character of Pop in We Will Rock You. It's the first bit of dialogue in the play and is fairly interesting an engaging. Personally I feel that I would like to do this monologue as it seems prettyt taught forward and easy to learn, also I like the musical and have a strong knowledge on what happens after this monologue. However one thing I am worried about if I do choose this for an audition piece, is the fact that I don't know how I would do the voice of Pop as he's a bit like a hippie and I'm unsure of my ability to do that. 

Double - The Forigner

Don't tell me you've never seen a knife. Knife. That's a knife. Use it to cut things. Cut things. (Mimes) Like - ham. If we had some ham. Or bacon, or sump'm. I can't believe you don't -. (Looks around for help. There is none.) Or butter. If we had some butter, you could use it to spread it on - . You don't really need it. No, you don't need it. (Demonstrating.) Put it down.
Bad Uh - . (Charlie now holds a spoon.) Yeah, now that's your spoon. Use that to put sugar in your coffee, if you had some sugar, here. And you had some coffee - shoot. I don't really know why we got all these things. But your fork - man, I wish somebody else'd help you with this, 'cause I don't know anything, but - I think that your fork - your fork'd be the main thing you'd use. 'Cause you got your eggs, and you got your grits. Y'see? Eat 'em with a fork, just like we been doin'. Can - you - say - 'fork'? 'Faw-werk'? 'Faw-werk.' Two parts. 'Faw-werk.' . . . Right. Put 'em together. 'Faw-werk' . . .Good! That was great!'

I think that this monologue would be good for me as it is suppose to be a comedy and with the right accent and movement, I believe that I could pull it off. However, I don't actually know this play and I'm not too clear on what's happened so far.  

Double - Dna

This is Richards monologue from the play 'Dna'. Richard has gone through a lot of hastle to try and make sure that the 'mysterious death' of their friend Adam is kept as low as possible as the group of friends are responsible for his death. Richard is threatened by John Tate towards the beginning of the play and shortly after is told to look after Brian who is emotionally unstable and is mental. Richard then talks to his friend Phil who is haunted by the events that have taken place and in result he just sits there in the woods looking in one direction all day. I think that this would be a good monologue for me to do as it's pretty straight forward and also it can be told in many different ways.

Double - A mid summer night's dream

Thou speak’st aright.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

I jest to Oberon and make him smile

When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

And sometime lurk I in a gossip’s bowl

In very likeness of a roasted crab,

And when she drinks, against her lips I bob

And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.

The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale

Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me.

Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,

And “Tailor!” cries, and falls into a cough,

And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,

And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear

A merrier hour was never wasted there.

But, room, fairy! Here comes Oberon.

This is the monologue from Shakespeare's "A mid summer night's dream". In this part, Puck, Oberon's assistant is telling his rival fairies about how his friendship with his King and how he jokes about. Personally I believe that this monologue isn't really for me as I find it hard to read and act Shakespeare, however for universities it would be good to have as it shows a change in time eras of performing arts.  

Double - Blood Brothers Monologue

"I wish I was our Sammy
Our Sammy's nearly ten.
He's got two worms and a catapult
An' he's built a underground den.
But I'm not allowed to go in there,
I have to stay near the gate,
'Cos me Mam says I'm only seven,
But I'm not, I'm nearly eight!

I sometimes hate our Sammy,
He robbed me toy car y' know,
Now the wheels are missin' an' the top's broke off,
An' the bleedin' thing won' go.
An' he said when he took it, it was just like that,
But it wasn't, it went dead straight,
But y' can't say nott'n when they think y' seven
An' y' not, y' nearly eight.

I wish I was our Sammy,
Y' wanna see him spit,
Straight in y' eye from twenty yards
An' every time a hit.
He's allowed to play with matches,
And he goes to bed dead late,
And I have to go at seven,
Even though I'm nearly eight.

Y' know our Sammy,
He draws nudey women,
Without arms, or legs, or even heads
In the baths, when he goes swimmin'.
But I'm not allowed to go to the baths,
Me Mam says I have to wait,
'Cos I might get drowned, cos I'm only seven,
But I'm not, I'm nearly eight.

Y' know our Sammy,
Y' know what he sometimes does?
He wees straight through the letter box
Of the house next door to us.
I tried to do it one night,
But I had to stand on a crate,
'Cos I couldn't reach the letter box
But I will by the time I'm eight."

This is the monologue for when we first meet the character of Mickey in the musical Blood Brothers. So far in the musical we have seen that the two twins have been separated from ther birth mother without knowing. We see Mickey (a young boy played by a man) sitting center stage, stretching his jumper, telling the audince about things he gets up to when he's bored etc. Then the monologue begins. Personally I think that this monologue is a great one to perform for soemeone like myself as you can be really mellow dramatic with it and you can make the audience laugh as it's an middle aged man/ oldish man playing a child. As much fun this is to perform, the problem with it for me is the liverpudlian accent because I have a problem trying to do northern type of accents.

Double - University Research

UEA (University of East Anglia)

We operate an initial shortlisting process for this course on the basis of the information an applicant provides on their UCAS form. Candidates who are shortlisted will be invited to interview and audition and offers are only made after a successful interview and audition. These take place on Visit Days and include an opportunity to look around the campus, view accommodation, meet current students, talk to staff members and find out more about the course. The interview and audition itself will be with a member of our Drama team. Candidates are asked to perform a short monologue from a selection provided and there is also a discussion which generally covers topics such as your current studies, reasons for choosing the course and your personal interests and extra-curricular activities.

Portsmouth

For Portsmouth university, you will be invited for an interview and then providing what you want to do (musical theater or contemporary), you will be invited in for an audition (singing or monologue). For the interview process, they prefer you to have grades however if you were unable to do performing arts at a collage or sixthform, then you can still have a chance of getting in (providing that you have a background and experience in theatre). With the 3 years, in every year, the course is split into theory and practical.There is 3 of each.

Opinion
I personally believe that UEA is a better option due to the fact that you are able to discus options and opinions and also given guidance by students that were once in the same place as you.