Discuss how youd perform Mrs Farley in 2 sections of the play, Playhouse Creatures, making it clear the impact youd have on the audience.

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Discuss how you’d perform Mrs Farley in 2 sections of the play, Playhouse Creatures, making it clear the impact you’d have on the audience. Throughout the play we get the feeling that Mrs Farley is a weaker character from the rest and I have chosen two parts of the play to portray this. The first part is pages 41 – the end of scene three. In this scene Mrs Farley is being ostracized by the other actresses because she is pregnant and also in this scene she goes through the awful ordeal of trying to have an abortion. In this scene I would have Mrs Farley wearing really tight clothes so that she was not obviously pregnant to the audience or to Mr Betterton because she would most certainly lose her job. She would have little makeup and be pale and drawn looking, as she had been up with morning sickness or to show that leading a life as a pregnant woman is very tiring and hard. Mrs Farley says “I went back looking for the special stairs but I couldn’t find them. They took me there before and it was easy, but
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when I went back I couldn’t find them. It was like a maze. I wandered and wandered. You get tired. Where will I go?” – I think this should be said in a quiet and mousey voice to portray that she is very helpless without the King or even a male supporter because it will be so hard for her to make money without one. “It was like a maze.” Should be said adamantly as if to show the others that she realises she needs to try and went back but to no avail. “Where will I go?” should be ...

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