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There were a couple of monologues today

that were quite poetic, written by quite

famous writers who are known for that

and sort of I so felt the actors had

fallen into a certain trap down trap

doors of of having to do it in a

particular way or there being an

expectation that therefore it had to be

kind of flowery and beautiful and said

in a certain language. would weigh

particularly the Tennessee Williams

stuff or the O'Neal stuff. So in trying

to push them in a certain direction to

see if

by giving them something quite specific,

usually an activity

to do something domestic. And it was

quite remarkable then to watch once

given that direction to add something

that was a task

how suddenly the piece came alive.

Suddenly the actors started to carve out

words and suddenly things that had not

been funny the first time they did them

took on a a humorous tone, a lighter

tone. And and it was no longer about

watching an actor doing a monologue. It

was about watching a person behaving in

a room.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to do uh Beyond the Horizon by

Eugene O'Neal.

Those were the only happy moments of my

life. Then

dreaming there at that window.

I like to be all alone those times.

I got to know all different kinds of

sunsets by heart. And

all the sunsets took place over there

beyond the horizon.

So gradually I came to believe that all

the wonders of the world happened on the

other side of those hills. There was a

home of the good fairies who performed

beautiful miracles.

I believed in fairies then.

Perhaps I still do.

Anyway, in those days they were real

enough and sometimes I could hear them

calling to me to come out and play with

them, to dance with them down the road

in the dusk in a game of hide-and-seek

to find out, you know, where the son was

hiding himself.

And they sang their little songs to me.

Songs that told of all the wonderful

things they had in their home on the

other side of those hills. And they

promised to show me them all if I'd only

come.

But I couldn't come. Then

sometimes I would cry and Ma would think

I was upset.

That's why I'm going now, I suppose,

because the horizon is still as far away

and as alluring as ever.

Do you understand now, Ruth?

Thank you.

Uh, let me start by asking a question.

Uh, what are you trying to make her

understand? Why I need to go?

It's also a I mean,

it's a breakup. They weren't really in a

relationship,

but he is like cutting things off and

getting ready to leave.

But did he make her fall in love with

him?

Is that what you're saying?

Yeah, he did.

So he got what he wanted.

Yeah.

And now he doesn't want it.

Right.

How typical.

The women laughed more than the guys.

It's it's a very poetic piece and it and

you're kind of out here and and there's

almost no way to ground it because

it's a kind of high flutin kind of

dreamy kind of it has that quality. So I

kind of feel like I if it were rooted in

something, if it were grounded in

something, then all of that stuff might

feel less high flutin, less O'Nealic.

And so I kind of wish you were doing

something domestic,

doing something that takes it out of

itself.

Could you be packing a suitcase?

Could you be ironing a shirt? Could you

be doing something that would

take your mind off of all this stuff

that you're you're saying you're saying

all this stuff, but you don't want to.

You got other things to do.

Okay.

You got other stuff you're trying to

finish.

I'd also love it. Maybe if you can try

it that this is something you've done a

bunch of times.

Okay.

This isn't [ __ ] new.

You're good at it.

You know, those were the only happy

moments of my life. Then,

dreaming there at that window,

I like to be all alone those times. I

got to know all different kinds of

sunsets by heart and all the sunsets

took place over there

beyond the horizon.

So gradually I came to believe that you

know all the wonders of the world

happened down the other side of those

hills. You know there was the home of

the good fairies who performed beautiful

miracles.

You know I believed in fairies then.

Perhaps I still do believe in them.

Anyway, in those days, you remember that

sometimes I could hear them calling to

me to come out and play with them. You

to dance with them down the road in the

dusk in a game of hideand seek to find

out where the son was hiding himself.

They sang their little songs to me.

Songs that told of all the wonderful

things they had in their home on the

other side of those hills.

And they promised to show me them all.

if I'd only come.

But I couldn't come then. And sometimes

I would cry and Ma would think I was

upset.

But that's why I'm going now, I suppose.

Nice. The horizon is still as far away

and as alluring as ever.

Do you understand now, Ruth?

Yeah. Come on.

Making him mean really it adds

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. But it's also really interesting

because

the moment you

start living,

right? The moment you're in a scene and

you're living, there's something going

on. you take all the onus off the oh now

I'm performing a monologue and I'm doing

it even when you got to you know beyond

the horizon that

the moment you did that it was like yeah

that's a real person talking in a real

situation to another person who now we

actually started to imagine

because of the way you were treating her

and that it was all a bit you know but

that's the incredible thing about O'Neal

too is that you know it's so easy to get

trapped trapped in the now I'm doing

your Jun O'Neal. Same thing about

getting trapped in in Tennessee

Williams. Now I'm doing your Jun O'Neal.

So everything has to be quite poetic and

quite meaningful and it all has to be on

the horizon. So it's like [ __ ] that

[ __ ] A it's not interesting. But

that was interesting. you know, you

don't even need to put a mask on because

that was a shift of a large degree that

made that piece come to life and it made

it enjoyable and made it funny and we

still got what was going on. Very nice

work.

Thank you.