Monologue

for my monologue I need you to follow the directions and I want you to write about a girl who just turned 18 the day of the Lahaina fires and how she lost everything, is an only child and fighting to survive with her family during during this hardship with her town and loss within her family. Her parents are still together, she lost a pet, has to move from her home, lost completely everything, and doesnt know what to do and how shes sad on her birthday. She lost friends too and expand on it. I need the monologue to be 250 words and to separate that with a 350 word explanation of the character and an outline of everything about the character make her sad and fleshed out. The monologue should be 250 words long with a 350 word explanation (+/- 10%) of your process = 10% of final grade. Assignment guidelines: Referring back to the playwriting lecture and writing exercises, as well as the selected text from Elements of Playwriting and monologue writing workshop lecture (all in week 3), and the acting lecture from week 4, in this assignment you will create a character, drawing inspiration from yourself, people you know, television, etc. This character should be fully fleshed out, with a clear backstory, goals, obstacles, and relationships to other characters in the universe of the monologue you are drafting. Knowing who your character is before the play starts makes it easier to understand why a character pursues the goals and objectives they pursue (both internal and external). Examining a character’s physical, social, psychological, and moral qualities (background) helps us understand relationships, tensions, and crises in the play and why they matter. – Particularly, this assignment asks you to (re) build your character’s background, answering the basic questions: Who is this character, who are they talking to in this scene, and what do they, want from them? – Brainstorm the character’s background: an exploration of her/his/their physical, social, psychological, and moral qualities which might help us see your character’s life prior to the play’s start. This involves also the character’s environment: Where and when they raised, for example, and under what conditions? Hobbies, talents, skills, flaws… economic class,. sexuality, gender, spirituality, family, major life events, dreams, fears, secrets… all shape character. It will be easiest for you to write if you write the familiar! Selectively choose what information is revealed in this scene and what isn’t. What exposition can be delivered that helps your character achieve their goal? What information might be under the surface but not immediately apparent? how is exposition and revealing information delivered? Is it through what the character says, or what the character the person is talking to says? Is your character responding to the other character’s accusations, seductions, deflections, etc.?: It helps if you think of the other character and how they might be responding non verbally during the monologue. People are always reacting, even when we don’t hear them speak! Think of actions!: What is your character doing during the monologue? Knitting, going through the trash, trying to seduce the other character, feeding a baby, etc. Grading criteria: The monologue focuses on one unique character reveals information about the character and the world they live in explores a character’s physical, social, psychological and moral qualities and formative environment/s; Has a clear person the character is speaking to (onstage (for example, character’s brother, coworker, etc.) or the audience) Is properly named and . in the correct file format, and is not written like a novel, screenplay, or another form that is not a theatre/stage monologue is written by YOU The process Talks about how you generated these ideas, narrowed down, exercises that helped you write/brainstorm, what you tried to capture with this monologue: the scene, the characters) (goals, obstacles, background) talks about your challenges or successes- a reflection of your process meets the length requirement (see above); is submitted on time (see above). Is written by you cites any sources you used for brainstorming or research in MLA format. If one of these sources is Al, a full chat log is required in addition to the appropriate MLA citation Feedback is constructive and respectful is submitted on time (see above). Everything Is relatively free of spelling, typographical, and grammatical errors. If spelling is intentional for a character’s speech, it should be noted in the process. Add