Flapper Girl Profile:
'The Girl In The Flapper Dress' is a teenage girl in the 1920's who has been invited to a pool party in July 1928. She has an older brother who is aggressive towards her and other people. This can be proved because my character says "I want to avoid this" after her brother has become angry and rude towards the other girl. By saying those words and not, for example, 'Why is he being like this?' shows that she has seen him behave like this before, and she knows what he might do. The girl knows that she shouldn't be out (as she states this towards the end of the monologue), which shows how women were oppressed in the 1920's.
Girl Number 3:
'The Girl In The Flapper Dress' is a teenage girl in the 1920's who has been invited to a pool party in July 1928. She has an older brother who is aggressive towards her and other people. This can be proved because my character says "I want to avoid this" after her brother has become angry and rude towards the other girl. By saying those words and not, for example, 'Why is he being like this?' shows that she has seen him behave like this before, and she knows what he might do. The girl knows that she shouldn't be out (as she states this towards the end of the monologue), which shows how women were oppressed in the 1920's.
Girl Number 3:
- Teenager
- Has a brother (Page 24)
- Goes to St Margret's Secondary School
- Went to St Helen's Primary School
- Thinks her opinions are the only opinions that matter
- Sentence are very blunt and to the point
- Says things without thinking about the consequences
- Stays with her friends from primary school
This is a photo of me in my costume. The dress was good because it has pockets so we could keep our phones in them. They were also a good length for the dances and because they are blue and white stripes, it could pass off as an actual school uniform.
At the end of the play, one of my lines is "And it's like, by being together, the St Helen's girls, we have brought forth the spirit of Scarlett into the room". This shows that my character believes in ghosts as she thinks that Scarlett is dead but that they have been able to contact her by standing in a circle with candles.
During one of our dance rehearsals we did some character work, focusing on how our 'girl' characters would walk, stand and what little things they could do.
We all had to walk around as each of our characters, which really helped the person whose character we were focusing on because we could take little things from someone else and add them into our own character. For example, when we were all Shan's character (a clever and intelligent girl) I decided that I thought she would walk around with her hands clasped together and always moving, showing that she was always looking at things with a scientific or a mathematical viewpoint.
When it came to walking as my character, which I described as "She considers her views to always be right even if they aren't always correct". So while walking in the space most of us began to walk with our heads lifted slightly almost as if to look down on people. When Ben asked us to stand still, I thought we had finished the exercise and so I was standing how I would normally stand and then Ben said "Oh that's good for your character, do that" and so I replied "But I'm just standing how I would normally stand" and Ben said "Well do that cos it looks good." Then we began to discuss what things my character would do and so I suggested that if I had a little dialogue with another girl (like when I say to Louise "It looks like a guinea pig died" and she replies "Looks pretty normal to me", to which I say "It's a dead guinea pig!") and I didn't agree with her opinion, I could turn away and roll my eyes. Ben also came up with the idea that if I was talking to someone else then I could be nodding my head pretending to agree with that person, when really I just don't care about their views. To which Maria replied "So she's just playing herself basically!" Having heard her say this, I realised how much like my character I am, which in a way is a good thing, as whenever I act as a character, I always try to put a little of myself into the character, even if it's something really small, however when Maria stated how much I was like my character, it got me thinking how much I could put my own self into my character, but I will over exaggerate it slightly more than I would in real life.
I decided that in the scene where we decide who is at the bottom, who is at the top, and who is in the middle, we needed to work out which character was actually where in the line. So I ask the cast what their character was like and where they thought they should stand in the line, and from that I created an order for us to stand.
When it came to walking as my character, which I described as "She considers her views to always be right even if they aren't always correct". So while walking in the space most of us began to walk with our heads lifted slightly almost as if to look down on people. When Ben asked us to stand still, I thought we had finished the exercise and so I was standing how I would normally stand and then Ben said "Oh that's good for your character, do that" and so I replied "But I'm just standing how I would normally stand" and Ben said "Well do that cos it looks good." Then we began to discuss what things my character would do and so I suggested that if I had a little dialogue with another girl (like when I say to Louise "It looks like a guinea pig died" and she replies "Looks pretty normal to me", to which I say "It's a dead guinea pig!") and I didn't agree with her opinion, I could turn away and roll my eyes. Ben also came up with the idea that if I was talking to someone else then I could be nodding my head pretending to agree with that person, when really I just don't care about their views. To which Maria replied "So she's just playing herself basically!" Having heard her say this, I realised how much like my character I am, which in a way is a good thing, as whenever I act as a character, I always try to put a little of myself into the character, even if it's something really small, however when Maria stated how much I was like my character, it got me thinking how much I could put my own self into my character, but I will over exaggerate it slightly more than I would in real life.
I decided that in the scene where we decide who is at the bottom, who is at the top, and who is in the middle, we needed to work out which character was actually where in the line. So I ask the cast what their character was like and where they thought they should stand in the line, and from that I created an order for us to stand.
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