Contrast of monologues

I am contrasting two monologues they are The chocolate affair  and forbidden planet.

The chocolate Affair is written by Stephanie Alison Walker, who plays a middle age women called Beverly, that is having a mid life crisis, she is sick of performing the same routine every day, get dressed, cook breakfast for everyone, get her daughter ready for school, watch her husband leave for work, then start the house work.
I picked this play due to it reminding me of my mum, as there are a range of objectives in this monologue that reminds me of my mother, and due to seeing my mother perform this, I knew how she would react while saying/ performing her every day tasks.
I felt with this Monologue I could characterise this a lot more and I would feel less nervous.

In chocolate affair I am playing a middle age women, roughly the age of 35 describing her every day task, the emotions for this piece when acting is to show the frustration and anger Beverly is having, this would be shown through the tone of your voice, due to describing but having a rant while physically explaining the vocals would be loud, speaking fast when counting her tasks. However in Forbidden planet, my Character was the 'scientist' therefore I played a professional character which was well spoken, and a male.

In comparison for Both plays, they were completely different due to Chocolate Affair being about a mother who all she does is looks after anyone else, and once everyone has gone from the house, she raids the cupboards all day long, and when her family return, she acts all casual like nothing has happened.

Forbidden Planet is a well known Jukebox musical, created in the 1956 based on Shakespeare. Therefore from this there is a contrast in the difference between each play would have been spoken. The Chocolate Affair, is a short 10 minutes play, however the Forbidden Planet is over an hour long Shakespeare,  Physically I would say that Forbidden Planet is more professional due to the amount of characters there are in this play, yet in Chocolate Affair only 3 are mentioned. Throughout both Plays I needed to interpret completely different sex characters as one was a middle age lady and the other was a middle age man, because of this my physicality on vocals needed to change, as I was using formal communication by speaking directly casual about myself, but In Forbidden Planet, I was a scientist therefore needed to act and speak very formal and clever. I felt this was hard for me to get into a Scientist character, due to never speaking directly to one before, therefore I researched scientists to see how they looked and spoke, the research helped and I felt when I dressed up in character this helped me a lot.

Historically Forbidden planet is much more well known, due to being published in 1956, with Shakespeare connections, therefore Forbidden planet has been performed in a range of Theatres, and is well known to the public, offering a range of copies, dvds, as well as online and in real theatres. Alternatively Chocolate Affair is more comedy, explaining a mothers every day life, were other mothers watching this play can relate to. This was published in 1990 due to the change in society, as in the later century's women started to become more independent, were they would not rely on a man and it was common for the mother to become a single parent.

I felt when learning both Monologue I felt that Chocolate Affair I spoke more casual in connection of how I physically speak now in real life and because this was the impact I found it more physically to learn my lines and remembering them for the day of the assignment, However with the Forbidden Planet I needed to speak some words in Shakespeare which I had not performed before, by this it was a lot harder to remember verbally, but by improvising movement with this helped and by making it a more physical play helped, therefore with both plays because their was a lot of words in relation with movement I found it easier to remember and relate to.

Overall I feel that Both Plays went really well, and interpreting movement helped me, by having feedback while rehearsing this helped due to seeing an improvement every lesson, physically and emotionally. Character studies helped, so beginning with research helped so I could see how I am meant to Act each character. Overall I am happy with the feedback from both plays of my Tutor.