Scripted Performance Piece : Be My Baby

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Scripted Performance Piece : Be My Baby

For my scripted performance I chose to do half of scene nine and all of scene ten from the play 'Be My Baby'.

The play is set in 1964 in the attic of a mother and baby home, where young, pregnant, unmarried girls were sent to have their babies and put them up for adoption.

There are three characters in the part of scene nine and scene ten, which we performed which was also the number of people in our group and each part tested our own ability.

During the scenes we see the development of two of the main characters, Mary and Queenie. Mary is from a family who are financially comfortable, she works in a bank and she seems fairly intelligent. I played Queenie, who is from a working class background, seems common compared to Mary and has her heart set on a singing career. In scene ten especially we see Queenie's character develop when we discover some of her 'darker' past as she reveals that she has already had given birth to a baby boy before. The other character in our scene is Matron,