Preparing a Monologue 1. Understanding character - who? how old? personality? etc. - Scarlett, 9 year old girl -confident 2. Situation - where? when? why? who are you talking to? - Sitting on her bed in her room at night - Getting ready to go to bed - Talking to audience 3. Language : meaning (what you are trying to say - 1 sentence) - explain my sister's "irrational" fear of monsters hiding in her room at night 4. emotion / flow / build - Confident until she's becomes scared (maybe paranoid) 5. Body language & blocking - movements - Sitting slouched on the edge of bed, legs dangling - Slides to other end of the bed quickly out of fright on "Dad!"
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