Discuss in detail how you would play either Peter or Willie in Scene 2 of Blue Remembered Hills. You will need to refer to voice, movement, gesture and facial expression, as well as to know how your chosen character responds to the other cha

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Discuss in detail how you would play either Peter or Willie in Scene 2 of “Blue Remembered Hills”. You will need to refer to voice, movement, gesture and facial expression, as well as to know how your chosen character responds to the other character on stage.

 Scene 6 of “Blue Remembered Hills” starts off with Peter and Willie talking about matches leading on to a character named Wilson “peeing” in a gorse bush and both of them have a laughing fit over the topic. They then talk about Peter being the “Number Two” after Wallace. Willie then tells Peter that he has to go to Donald’s house, perhaps to play football. Peter then makes fun of Donald and how his mum treats Donald and that he is scared of his mum. They then talk about jam jars and about collecting them to make money, but Peter says it’s a waste of time but he catches Willie being a bit shifty about how Donald got his Jars so he tries to bribe him to tell him about it with comics. Just then, something else grabs their attention.  

If I was playing as Peter, I would say the line, “Can’t you…matches?” in a pretty commanding voice and with my hands, I would mime striking a match with a grin on my face. Then I would act as if I am lighting a gorse bush as I’m saying the line “Set fire to a gorse bush” and I would stick my tongue out in excitement as I set fire to my imaginary gorse bush.  When I say that line, I would have been sitting on the ground, legs far apart and my “imaginary gorse bush” would be in-between my legs. Peter would do a thing like this mainly to attract attention to himself.  

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When Willie tells me that “Mrs Baker caught Wallace Wilson peeing in a gorse bush”, I would stop my imaginary scene of setting fire to a gorse bush and stare at Willie, completely freezing and I would have a very ecstatic expression on my face and I maintain that expression as I say my next line and I would say that line, “Her didn’t did her?” in a very high, and excited whisper. I would shake my head as I say that mind and I do that pretty absentmindedly. I would also tuck my legs in, as if I would ...

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