By Emma
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydBtniuBniA
Available until: Unknown
School’s Out is such a clever monologue. I really like plays that surprise me and don’t go where I’m expecting it to go. “School’s out” is a really well known phrase so I went into this with expectations of what it would be about and I was wrong. I love being wrong about things like this!
I liked being wrong so much I’m going to try really hard to review this without giving too much away.
It’s the end of term and it’s time for all the children to go home. Some of the teachers will be staying on for a bit longer but for the children it’s a moment which they’ve probably been looking forward to ever since half-term ended.
Then one of the teachers gets a phone call.
Alice Josephs wrote and directed this monologue and she is really good. She has created a really strong, interesting and admirable character to tell the story and even though we don’t see the other characters, Alice makes sure we know what they’re like too. The situation is really dramatic and it takes us on twists and turns and you have no idea what’s going to happen or how it will all work out. Alice also creates a lot of suspense with the way she has written the monologue.
Tanya Nicole performs the monologue really well. She’s kind of performing on two levels at once and that’s so clever. She’s telling the story in quite an unemotional way, stating the facts in order but describing everything very clearly and even though she doesn’t show the way her character is feeling in an obvious way, you can kind of feel it all under the surface. It’s not just that you’re sympathising with how you’d expect her to feel, there is really something really subtle in Tanya’s performance so you really can feel her pain.
A really great monologue which is brilliantly written and
performed.
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