My Characters Monologue

  This My Characters Monologue

They were fighting again last night, my brother knocked on my door and climbed into my bed. We lay there together till we fell asleep, wishing the screaming could end. Next thing I knew my alarm went off. As I applied my make-up and did my hair I tried my best to fake normality. I got dressed, putting on my protective clothing as if it was a raincoat which kept me dry, and as everything poured down its just sprinkled away. I went to school as happy Chantelle desperately trying to cover the pain inside.

I’m pretty popular at school everyone loves me. I talk to my friends, which is pretty much everyone. I am nice to everyone, because no-one should feel left out.

School is usually boring, most of the time I just zone out and think about other things. Sometimes I think about reinvention. If I cut my hair, would they even notice?

I went to town after school, alone. I went in Boots, staring at the perfumes, lipsticks and blushers. I looked around. I picked up the new Chanel No.5, without even thinking about it. I dropped it in my bag. As always no one really noticed.

I walked home, with all my new goodies. I ran upstairs sat down and started cutting of all the labels of my new clothes, listening to the same old broken record in the background.

Some parts of my monologue make more sense when you see them performed.
' I talk to my friends, which is pretty much everyone. I am nice to everyone, because no-one should feel left out.' while I am delivering these lines, Fran who is playing me, will be making fun of other people. However, the audience will see that I think I am being nice.
'listening to the same old broken record in the background. '
While Fran, is miming cutting tags of clothes, Shannon and Jack, who play my parents, will be fighting in the background.

I thought of various different way of how to end my monologue, I was going to have her cut her hair. However that wouldn't work because I have rehearsed previous scenes, and flipping my hair is a big part of my character. However in the end I decided to have her steal. This works well, because she is very interested in fashion and make-up. Also because her parent are so wrapped up in arguing and fighting they don't really notice her. So she does it to try and get there attention.

In the monologue the audience get so see a contrast on her home life and school life. When she is in school she is talking to her "Friends" however when she goes shopping after school she goes alone. This shows how alone she is.