An Actor's Guide to "Then I confess" - Helena from All’s Well That Ends Well monologue 

good luck🥰💗

You're so welcome! And if you haven't submitted yet, you might like to consider Helena's first monologue in the play as an alternative - "O were that all, I think not on my father." It's quite a wistful, romantic one and I think much simpler than this one. I did a breakdown of that one here if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r8Us1HtzgzM.html

Yay! That’s awesome. Good luck for your audition!

Thank you so much Nancy!

You’re so welcome! Glad it helped ❤️

Thanks Alexandra! And I feel the same way. I love hearing when people get carried away too because it can be so wonderful to work on Shakespeare and I love to hear that people are enjoying it! good luck for your audition. I love this monologue, I’m glad you do too 😊

And also I forgot about that LLL monologue! Even though I’ve played that role 🤦🏼‍♀️ that’s a lovely one too!

@@ShakespearewithSarah it really is!! Especially to play it sincerely and not comedic, so romantic!

Hurray! Thanks so much for the feedback. Makes me really happy to hear those things. Good luck for your audition!

The Creative Actor Thank you!

Argh sorry I thought I’d replied to this a while ago! Yes, cut the Indian like and go straight into ‘my dearest madam’, and then also cut “but if yourself…” up to “herself and love”. Change “o then give pity” to “but o give pity” so it makes grammatical sense. So: “… and lack not to lose still. My dearest madam / let not your hate encounter with my love / for loving where you do but o give pity / to her whose state is such…” and so on until the end. Sneaky trick! Hope I caught you before your audition. Good luck.

Yes I would love to! It might be take a couple of weeks though, I have a bit of a backlog of videos to be edited at the moment. Will get it done as soon as I can and let you know. :)

It's ready!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ZlVlw1TAlg.html

This is SUCH a good question. At the moment, casting directors mostly advise against full body shots (which I think is wise because they really don’t show the nuance of your acting), so with any sort of action like this, they recommend just showing the emotional process and moment before and after. So for this, the emotional process is that she feels guilty and ashamed that she’s being too ambitious in her love, so she’s trying to show that she still knows that she’s lower in status - by literally lowering herself. When I did this as a self tape, I just shifted my weight slightly and lowered my head for a bit, so you could see the process of her trying to lower herself. You can watch that here if it’s helpful; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3nq38dJhmUM.html And I usually get up at “Be not offended”, because I imagine that the Countess is walking away from me, which freaks me out, but you could certainly choose other points. The most important thing is to justify your choice - ask yourself WHY it would be ok for her to get up again. Does the Countess help her up? Does she want to move closer to the Countess? And choose the most powerful option.

Sorry I missed this - definitely verse! You can tell if a monologue is in verse by checking if the first word of each line is capitalised.

Hi Haris, can you let me know which words you mean? Most of the tricky ones I think I covered.

@@ShakespearewithSarah Yes you explain very well my vocabulary is not so rich may be that’s why, I wanna learn English more I teach English in high school however she is serious earnest you said I don’t understand that , i googled countess .