psychoballerina said:
ok - we got this assignment were we have to write a script where the producer of ros n guil is talking to the actors who play ros, guil and the player.
help - we're meant to focus on what the producer wants, the stage directions- how the characters are portrayed - the works!
any suggestions?
Ok, think about it this way... when Stoppard wrote Ros and Guil, the whole idea was for the two bit players to go in search of their author...read Samuel Becketts "Waiting for Godot"...anyway now your job is to take it one step further. Imagine Ros and Guil have found their author ie. the producer... put yourself in their shoes and think about what they might say, i for one think they may have alot of questions to ask.
for eg. - Why did they have to die?
- What was the point of their death?
- Why do they even exist?
-Why didn't Stoppard keep them alive after putting them in the spotlight assuming he values these characters?
- Why transform their characters and not others such as Marcellus, Voltemand, Cornelius and many others who had even less line than Ros and Guil?
In asking all these questions to the producer, along with others you yourself might come up with... also refer to the play and become familiar with Stoppard's style ie. the use of Stichomythia, puns, philosphical thoughts and so on, you can easily create yourself the dialogue that makes up the script.
Oh yeah and to make it really effective, create a setting, make it isolating and add little things like the players band, and in brackets mention how their tone of voice is, their facial expressions.
Most importantly... goodluck in your work...hope i was of some help!!
