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Question: How do I get into character when!.!.!.(it's about Our Town)!?
The character isn't showing any personality!?

Each student in my drama class was given a monologue from the play Out Town to memorize and act out!. Mine is the wedding speech the stage manager makes!. He wants us to put emotion into it, but how do I do that when the stage manager really isn't stating anything emotional!?

If it helps, the entirety of my monologue is:

"There are a lot of things to be said about a wedding; there are a lot of thoughts that go on during a wedding!. We can't get them all into one wedding, naturally, and especially not into a wedding at Grover's Corners, where they're awfully plain and short!. In this wedding I play the minister!. That gives me the right to say a few more things about it!. For a while now, the play gets pretty serious!. Y'see, some churches say that marriage is a sacrament!. I don't quite know what that means, but I can guess!. Like Mrs!. Gibbs said a few minutes ago: People were made to live two by two!. This is a good wedding, but people are so put together that even at a good wedding there's a lot of confusion way down deep in people's minds and we thought that that ought to be in our play, too!. The real hero of this scene isn't on stage at all, and you know who that is!. It's like what one of those European fellas said: Every child born into the world is Nature's attempt to make a perfect child!."

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Think of all the weddings you have been to!. Think of the results of those marriages, good and bad, whether they have made the perfect couple, or whether they ended up hating each other!.
Visualize these things while you are making your speech!.
Think about God and how sacred a marriage is supposed to be, and how sometimes its not!. Think about conception, pregnancy, and birth!.

Each of these things evokes emotion - because it does not come obviously to the surface does not mean it is not there!.
Practice the speech as a man who is angry and upset with marriage, how stupid it can be!. Practice as someone who is in love, and on the verge of getting married!. Practice as someone who is about to experience the birth of their first child!. Practice as if you were God looking down on the marriage!. Practice a half dozen other ways, and then a couple more!.
Each time you do this you will find something that sparks emotion, some place in the monologue where that emotion comes through!. Work it in, let your feelings run the gamut of all those "thoughts that go on during a wedding"
The amount of emotion - not wild gesticulations or thunderous shouts - that can go into just that last line "Every child born into the world is Nature's attempt to make the perfect child" is considerable!.
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I can hardly expand on the awesome answer above, but emotion doesn't necessarily mean tears or hysterical laughter!. How do you feel about marriage!?Www@QuestionHome@Com