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Machinal

By Sophie Treadwell

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Language

When taking part in the adverb task we all thought a lot about the language used and how it effects emotion shown. The task taught us to think about as many adverbs that fitted as possible because sometimes adverbs that we think are least likely to fit sound best. For example when reading part of the husbands lines in the intermit scene “Then come here and give us a kiss. That’s the girlie. Like that?”  You wouldn’t expect it to sound like the man doesn’t want anything to do with her, but when me and Megan acted the scene by reversing all our adverbs that’s the exact impression that was given. This gives the idea that the language of the play is less influential then you would at first think.

Non-verbal Communication

When watching another group take part in the three people to a monolog task I noticed they used a lot more non verbal communication compared to us. For example I liked part of the scene when the two girls to the sides commented on being tiered; they rested their heads on the other girls shoulder. To me this gave the impression that she went back into one person and was at peace with herself until the panic started again.

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Although the other group used more non-verbal communication then we did in this task we did use some when staging our piece we decided to stage in so that the actual young women was stood in the middle and then the two to the sides were parts of her personality arguing.

At first when taking part in the adverb task we showed what we had done almost as a radio performance I found this hard because when acting without movements or expression my voice lacked emotion it was hard to be angry or sad without showing it in my ...

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