


I wanted to show my vocal skills and this speech didn't have enough alternation in pitch or range so it was all kind of monotone. Today, we continue to celebrate Tennessee Williams birthday with a monologue from THE GLASS MENAGERIE performed by Actors Co-op Theatre Company member. The main reason for this was because the character required a strong American accent, this was a problem for me and I struggled to get the accent. I liked this monologue but I did not choose to use it as one of my final submissions. I think the rest of the play will explain itself.

This is our father who left us a long time ago.He was a telephone man who fell in love with long distances he gave up his job with the telephone company and skipped the light fantastic out of town.The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words - 'Hello - Good-bye!' and no address. There is a fifth character in the play who doesn't appear except in this larger-than-life-size photograph over the mantel. But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for. He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from.

The other characters are my mother Amanda, my sister Laura and a gentleman caller who appears in the final scenes. NEW YORK, NY - Eighteen-year old NYU freshman Ryan McJohnson has achieved something previously considered impossible: a new and even louder way to portray anger in Tom’s The Glass Menagerie monologue. I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. In memory everything seems to happen to music. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. This is the social background of the play. Here there were disturbances of labour, sometimes pretty violent, in otherwise peaceful cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, Saint Louis. Motifs of Stage Magicians and Illusions in The Glass Menagerie: In Tom’s first monologue, he says to the audience: Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve.But I am the. Here there was only shouting and confusion. Their eyes had failed them or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. This use of lighting created focus, and no space was in focus when it didn’t need to be. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. This once again enhanced the dream-like state that was established in the opening monologue, which signposted that it was all memory. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. Well I do -as I said -have my glass collection. Glass is something you have to take good care of. My glass collection takes up a good deal of time. Oh, please don't think I sit around doing nothing. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. Monologues Friday, JThe Glass Menagerie Laura: I don't do anything -much. Spoken Word Identifier lp_reading-from-the-glass-menagerie-the-yello_tennessee-williams Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0hv1tp9p Lineage Technics SL1200MK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Original-ppi 1200 Pages 4 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 600 Ripping_date 20201010123515 Ripping_operator Ripping_scanner archivelp-rip-cebu05 Ripping_software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2.53lp Ripping_time 13108 Scandate 20200907122603 Scanner archivelp-cat-cebu02 Scanningcenter cebu Software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2."Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. Adaptive_ocr true Addeddate 12:44:37 Betterpdf true Bookreader-defaults mode/1up Boxid IA1600627 Catalog_time 269 Country US Derive_submittime 18:35:05 Disccount 1 External-identifier
