Get Thinking: Why have things changed

between Mickey and Eddie as they have

grown older?

Blood Brothers
Year 8: Lesson 5

To:​Field K, (DS)​
Tue 05/12/23 8:34 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8doNZfeQZmA – 1:51:45 – argument scene
 To use the technique
of hot-seating
Learning
Objectives
To write and
perform a
monologue
Hot-seating?

• Asking an actor questions whilst they are in character

Monologue?
• A speech for one person

• Mono = one Logue = speech

• It could be spoken to:

• Another character
• The audience
• Yourself
 One person is Eddie
and one person is
Mickey

Find a partner:

Find a space
Task: Monologue

• Write a monologue for your character

• The monologue should explore how you are
feeling and why
• You need to talk about your blood brother and how
they have made you feel: Are you angry? Worried?
Jealous? Confused?
Suggesting Starting Lines:
Eddie:
• “I don’t know what I’ve done wrong…”
• “I’ve got a feeling Mickey and I aren’t friends
anymore…”

Mickey:
• “I lost my temper this evening…”
• “I’ve had just about enough of Edward Lyons!”
Staging your monologue

• Can you use cross-cutting to combine your two

monologue?

• At which moments will you freeze and let your partner take over?
• How will you be positioned on the stage?
• What movements or actions might you be doing?
Evaluate

• Have they used cross-cutting effectively?

• Have they shown contrast in their drama?
• Have they used their voices and movement and
interesting ways?
The Plot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZsd_
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