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Jerry's Monologue Emotional Memory

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The next technique we explored was emotion memory. Emotion memory requires actors to remember a time when they felt the same, or similar emotions to what their character is feeling, and then import these feelings into their characterisation. I chose to look at Jerry’s Monologue. We then had to analyse the monologue to find the key feelings in there. Then using emotion memory, we found our strongest memories linking to these emotions and rehearsed the monologues applying these memories. For Jerry some strong emotions were nostalgia, sadness, disappointment, and uselessness. So, I had to find my strongest memories that linked to these. An example of nostalgia can be seen in a quote from Jerry’s monologue “And the way you stood, you know, and

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