IngmarBirdman posted...
List seems awfully exhaustive for a monologue meant to resemble actual conversation... reminds me of a spec script I once read where the climax was a poetry slam and the main character had four pages of uninterrupted dialogue. (Me, to the author: "COMPULSION was a fluke.") Then again, writing for the theatre is probably different.
Valid point. The role of my newscaster that's introduced in Act Two is two-fold for me: to show how the true conflicts of the play have escalated to national news, and to address how much the drug is involved with the world around us. She'll have a similar (and already smaller!) monologue listing the names cocaine goes by as well.
Long lists like those can get boring quickly, so I'm having additional fun with her by having the same actor play Gemini Lewis every time she delivers the news...but have her deliver the news a different way each time too. She delivers it normally at first, then she drops her hair and immediately takes a harsher approach to the news (even to the point of talking trash on the previous news-station for not getting the breaking news first). She'll probably do some radio-DJ'ing and web-blogging later too to keep the variation alive.
Besides all that, I don't think of news-anchors as being particularly conversational unless they're in an interview or something with other people.
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