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Blue Remembered Hills

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        When we ere given our parts, I was given the part of Angela, who I knew from reading the script was the spoilt, annoying child! I was pleased with this because I thought it would be fun to play. I thought this because even though I didn’t have a great deal of lines, I thought it would be fun to show the personality of my character through movement, compared to dialogue. Our group were given the end part of the play (scenes 15-29), which was possibly one of the more significant parts of the play. It was important because it was at the end of the play when Donald dies, which would be a sad moment for the audience, and we had to portray the feelings of sadness. This was most definitely the key event in our scenes.  

After we had explored the play more, we started to rehearse and perfect our parts. Our group wanted to reach a stage where we had a piece that we were ready to perform and one that we were happy with, because we had the end scene; we knew it had to be of a good standard. We also wanted to have lots of energy in our performance. We thought the best way to achieve this would be to rehearse a lot.

         When we started rehearsals, we found that some people struggled with the West Country accent. This then led to some people getting very irritated with the play and feeling as if we would never reach a point where we could all talk in the accent well. I didn’t have too many lines to say, which made it easier that having huge chunks of lines to sustain the accent through. Also, I found the accent quite easy to keep up in the line I had, for example “I hope! I hope!” was an easy line to say in the West Country accent. This was because you don’t pronounce the “H”, which makes it sound more authentic.

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One key person, who had a big part found the accent especially frustrating. This added tension to our group even in early rehearsals because some people who found the accent hard were not really doing their utmost to co-operate with everyone. In retrospect, we didn’t really do the best we could to support the people who were having difficulties, but it was hard to feel understanding when people weren’t even trying their hardest.

Another problem this brought was that for a few lessons, or just brief moments, we had people getting so frustrated with the script and the accent, ...

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