UNIT 7 - Contemporary Monologue: What We Know

What we Know by Pamela Carter

Monologue:

Tasks:
"Where am I"? In terms of where I want to go! - In the future my intentional destination is drama school so my pursuit to be an actor become a reality.

What skills do I possess and how have I developed - In the past I had known myself to be quite self-indulgent and I would focus mainly on just acting and bringing energy to stage. Though due to the feedback from my peers I have found out that I've gained also new skills myself. For example leadership, team bonding, performance, articulation, diction, openness, resilience, projection, respect, determination, spacial awareness, characteristics, persistence creativity and listening skills. This is all through the year that I know I have definitely learnt and I hope to keep up through the next year.

Next steps? What do I plan to do beyond this course and how will I aim to achieve it? - what I'm hoping for in the future is to get into the right drama school that suits me, gain experience through doing workshops and then start putting myself out in the world. How aim to achieve this? That all comes down to me being determined on my work and by being persistent in finding auditions and getting into films and having certain connections within the industry so I can put myself out there.

I came upon this monologue from a book my friend borrowed from the library called Nern Books. At the time I was struggling to find a good monologue that I thought would interest me but then this came along. In a rough summary, this monologue is about how a young man is relaxing near a pond and has a strange experience with a dummy (dress up dummy from in shops). Now what interested me about it was the weirdness of the character. How he would always give weird examples to explain something so simple or how he would trail off into his wild imagination. Though what I get from the character's base emotion and reason for all this, is to try make the audience wander about the minds and thoughts of human abilities. He wants the audience to think, to be confused. To be drawn into his unparalleled story.

Pamela Carter:

Pamela Carter is a playwright and dramaturg. Her work as writer for untitled includes: Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, An Argument About Sex and Slope. Other plays include: Fast Ganz Nah (Almost Near) directed by Elias Perrig and premiered at Dresden Staatshausspiel April 2013; meat for Peep/Natural Shocks, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012 & 13; Skåne (directed by Tim Carroll at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in October 2011; winner of the New Writing Commission at the Berliner Festspiele Stückemarkt 2012); Wildlife for Magnetic North Theatre Company (2011); What We Know (directed by Pamela in a co-production with Traverse Theatre in 2010; published by Nick Hern Books); she also works as writer with Swedish conceptual artists Goldin+Senneby on The Nordenskiöld Model, their long term-investigation into hedge funds, algorithmic trading and the nature of financial reality. So far ‘scenes’ have been staged in Bucharest, Vilnius, Rotterdam, Stockholm, New York, Aachen and Copenhagen. Her work as a dramaturg includes: Saturday Night (2011) and the award-winning Interiors (touring internationally since 2009) by Vanishing Point Theatre Co; and, for untitled The Salon Project (2011).