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| William Shakespeare's 'The Tragedy of Julius Ceasar', Aquila Theatre Company, New York |
I had sent this email just this evening to a friend of mine on Twitter who was having some trouble with a university project, which required her to either write a monologue or a two-part dialogue. (She considered the dialogue to be a 'cop-out', so we know what her decision is!) I had sent her this email, hoping to inspire her, and to approach it at a different angle. Here's what I wrote to my friend:
Okay, so you want to write a monologue. It's not as daunting as you think, when you apply yourself to it.
I'd been doing theatre all my life, and I love the acting craft. I have so much appreciation for everything having to do with breathing life into words on paper, flushing them out into moving pictures and beyond talking heads. I think one of the big misunderstandings about the words in the script is that the playwright must been a keen observer of the human spirit, psyche and nature to compose such natural dialogue. Boy, I wonder how people speak themselves, if it isn't in natural dialogue?
