Title: I
Can’t Love a Weak Man
Play: Patter for the Floating Lady
Character: Angie
Ten Ingredients:
1. Relationship: A woman who tries to make her partner understand that because of the things he had done, their relationship was soon to be over.
2. Objective: Making her partner understand that their relationship has come to an end.
3. Obstacle: Her own feelings
4. Strategy: Uses the memories to make him feel guilty.
5. Tactics: Recalling every moment, good and bad, memories.
6. Text: “Oh yes, I loved you.” “I cried for us.” “But everything you said and did, every touch at night in bed, every kindness, every loving comment had this sentence attached: maybe now she’ll love me. And it made you weak. And if I’m not going to love someone strong, why love at all?”
7. Subtext: “I really love you with all my heart, but this has to end. I can’t stand being with you while I get hurt continuously.”
8. Interior Monologue: “You know what you did! You always do the same things. You say you don’t mean them, but you keep repeating the same mistakes. I’m tired of this! Everything is the same thing. This has to break or you will end breaking me and I won’t let that happen.”
9. Evaluation: She realizes she needs to move on without him in other to be happy again. His weakness is hurting her too much. Only the good memories will remain in her heart forever.
10. Beats: Normal, happy, Sad, Mad and/or Disappointed
I picked this monologue because, since I first read it, it just felt right for me. I felt her pain and disappointment. I felt that she was upset about what had happen on her previous relationship with a man that appeared to be emotionally weak. This character and I have some similarities. One of them is that we both experienced this situation in which a man is being emotionally weak. Men sometimes, can’t express their feelings like women can and that makes us feel upset and disappointed. Men can be shown weak when they enter in a difficult situation and most of the cases when they become doubtful about what they use to be sure. The difference between her and me is that she might actually be older than me, by a lot, but it doesn’t matter because we all experience the same situations sooner or later within our lives.
I have learn from this class that humans have a lot of habits they don’t usually know they have, until someone else shows then to you. Each and every one of us have a personality. Our habits and body language are part of what makes our personality unique. Since acting became part of my life, I view my world as a stage. What if everything we say or do is already written on a scrip? What if we are the main star of our life story? Well, we are. We are actors, and the world is our stage. Everything we say, we do, we thing, we feel, and we perform, is already scripted by our creator. We are determine to make changes to improve our way of living. Everything we do should be because we choose to. Each time we have an interview, an audition, a date, a family reunion we don’t want to be in, a party, etc. we are performing. We develop a certain personality of ourselves within each of this situations because it makes us feel more comfortable.
I have learn that a good relaxation before performing can help you get more into character, and can help you stay focus in what you should be doing, not in what you have to do after you are done her. In real life performing (our daily lives) we can also use these relaxation methods that will help us be more focus and alert of what we need to do, not what we should do after we are doing afterwards. I learn that on stage, like on live, focus is the main thing to succeed. A focus mind equals a healthy performance.
Play: Patter for the Floating Lady
Character: Angie
Ten Ingredients:
1. Relationship: A woman who tries to make her partner understand that because of the things he had done, their relationship was soon to be over.
2. Objective: Making her partner understand that their relationship has come to an end.
3. Obstacle: Her own feelings
4. Strategy: Uses the memories to make him feel guilty.
5. Tactics: Recalling every moment, good and bad, memories.
6. Text: “Oh yes, I loved you.” “I cried for us.” “But everything you said and did, every touch at night in bed, every kindness, every loving comment had this sentence attached: maybe now she’ll love me. And it made you weak. And if I’m not going to love someone strong, why love at all?”
7. Subtext: “I really love you with all my heart, but this has to end. I can’t stand being with you while I get hurt continuously.”
8. Interior Monologue: “You know what you did! You always do the same things. You say you don’t mean them, but you keep repeating the same mistakes. I’m tired of this! Everything is the same thing. This has to break or you will end breaking me and I won’t let that happen.”
9. Evaluation: She realizes she needs to move on without him in other to be happy again. His weakness is hurting her too much. Only the good memories will remain in her heart forever.
10. Beats: Normal, happy, Sad, Mad and/or Disappointed
I picked this monologue because, since I first read it, it just felt right for me. I felt her pain and disappointment. I felt that she was upset about what had happen on her previous relationship with a man that appeared to be emotionally weak. This character and I have some similarities. One of them is that we both experienced this situation in which a man is being emotionally weak. Men sometimes, can’t express their feelings like women can and that makes us feel upset and disappointed. Men can be shown weak when they enter in a difficult situation and most of the cases when they become doubtful about what they use to be sure. The difference between her and me is that she might actually be older than me, by a lot, but it doesn’t matter because we all experience the same situations sooner or later within our lives.
I have learn from this class that humans have a lot of habits they don’t usually know they have, until someone else shows then to you. Each and every one of us have a personality. Our habits and body language are part of what makes our personality unique. Since acting became part of my life, I view my world as a stage. What if everything we say or do is already written on a scrip? What if we are the main star of our life story? Well, we are. We are actors, and the world is our stage. Everything we say, we do, we thing, we feel, and we perform, is already scripted by our creator. We are determine to make changes to improve our way of living. Everything we do should be because we choose to. Each time we have an interview, an audition, a date, a family reunion we don’t want to be in, a party, etc. we are performing. We develop a certain personality of ourselves within each of this situations because it makes us feel more comfortable.
I have learn that a good relaxation before performing can help you get more into character, and can help you stay focus in what you should be doing, not in what you have to do after you are done her. In real life performing (our daily lives) we can also use these relaxation methods that will help us be more focus and alert of what we need to do, not what we should do after we are doing afterwards. I learn that on stage, like on live, focus is the main thing to succeed. A focus mind equals a healthy performance.
