My characters name is Samantha. She is in her early 20s and this is her first job after going to cosmetic school. She has moved to a new city and got a job as a department store makeup salesmen. Samantha wants to become a makeup artist but knows she has to start on the bottom. Today is her first day on the job and she wants to make a good impression with both her coworkers and the customers. Samantha's boss is a very mean woman, who tells her that if she does not make a sale in the first day she can no longer work there. This makes her work even harder and really shows her persistence. She is a people pleaser. Samantha wants everyone in the room to like her and if they don't she gets very upset. She also is very bubbly and happy, which makes most people like her as a person. An older woman walks into the makeup department and asks Samantha for a cream that will make her skin glow. Samantha remembers her training and suggests a brand new facial that will make her skin glow. Without reading the ingredients Samantha puts it onto the woman's face. After, the tale unfolds samantha is fired on her very first day for almost killing a customer. She is now forced to move back home and hope for the best. Samantha is just an overall nice person but sometimes she struggles because she tries very hard for people to like her. This causes conflict in the monologue because she wants to please both her boss and the customer. With this idea you can tell how she really wants to make the sale but she doesn't want the woman to hate her. Overall, Samantha wants to please everyone while still advancing herself and her career.
In my personal opinion this monologue went a lot better than my other one. The first reason is that I felt more comfortable as the character. My character was much more relatable to me personally. In the last monologue the character was quite a stretch for who I am as a person. For example, I would not take so many pauses when I was talking because I usually talk very fast. I felt like this monologue really played to my strengths of comedic timing and my overly energetic feeling. My character in this monologue had a very similar reaction to what I would do in the situation of having someone's face swell up. Thirdly, I was more confident in my ability to perform because I had already performed a monologue in the class. In the first one, I was a little nervous to perform in front of new people, but now it has become much easier. Finally, I felt like my staging worked better for me because I could consistently be moving and doing something, while in my other monologue I felt a...
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