In today’s session , we were asked to think about who our characters are talking to in terms of audience. It could be either we discussing who we want our characters to talk to or us speaking from the characters perspective. I decided to go with the latter because I feel that my character is quite philosophical with his own life. For example he asks himself these constant questions about his life with no answers to boot. Or does he have answers and he’s only being a deceptive person? I wrote a short monologue that conveys an overall sense of both awareness and unawareness of who it is he is actually talking to? Is it an audience? A loved one? Or himself? I let the ambiguity take form:

Who on earth am I talking to? I haven’t the foggiest. I could be talking to myself. I could be talking to my family. Or better yet, I could be talking directly to you. Yeah that’s right, you. You the people. You the company. My company. I need the company. So you’re my company. Company; that word comes in many different forms. One could argue that the word ‘company’ stems from loneliness. Am I a lonely person? Not necessarily. Does one feel that he is lonely? I don’t think so. Unless of course you’re going on about those pesky members of an audience. Well, maybe they are audience members. But then again, are they really and truly audience members or just eager observers just dying to hear a story being told? Am I really talking to people or am I just looking at my own reflection? Are the ‘people’ really just itty bitty fragments of my own imagination? I wouldn’t know. It’s quite intriguing to figure out who I really talk to. They say the first sign of madness is talking to yourself. Well, I could possibly fit into that category. But then again, maybe not. Maybe Im lying to myself. Or even better, I may be lying to you. If ‘you’ even exists.