. I don't want my performance to be linear with a basic formation so I've decided to focus on the meaning of death... a massive outcome for many who experienced the war. Death happens to everyone and anyone but those in the war experienced it at its worst and I want to highlight this in all of it's forms.
The rehearsals have been better when I focus on them at my own house by myself than at school. I thought it would be the other way around due to my home being my... home, and there are many distractions, however it has been ok.
Because I have decided to have no music in my performance, I'm finding that I am speaking quite a bit more and I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. I want to highlight how death came cruelly and almost instantly to those fighting in the war and my words combined with my movements will leave an impression - I really
hope.
As well as a short short monologue I have written myself, I think I am also going to use sections of the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen-
What passing-bells for those who die like cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling them from sad shires.What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds
I don't want to read it all out whilst rolling around on the floor so at the moment I am planning on picking out significant words and repeating those, such as "blinds, rattle, monstrous, prayer."
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