Dear Evan Hansen Duologues

 Part of our Unit 11 assignment included focusing on doing a duologue, which had been chosen from the musical “dear Evan Hansen” I chose to be partners with Alex, for a scene which showed Evan and his mother Heidi having an argument.  

 

In the scene Heidi is waiting for Evan when he gets home, he has been lying about where he had been staying out and his mother had found out about it, they end up getting in a big argument and Evan ends up walking out. This scene is full of a lot of emotion, as Heidi is angry, but she is also really upset because all she has ever wanted is to give Evan the best life she can and no matter how hard she tries it never seems to work. I chose to play Heidi and Alex chose to play Evan as the obvious choice was to make Alex Heidi because she is taller, and she tends to look older, but we really wanted to give ourselves that difference in the roles.  

 

In-between rehearsal times, we had a lot of time to research the musical and the characters, I had already watched the musical, but I spent some time reading through the script so that I could gain a better understanding of the musical and the characters. I think that during this scene, there is a lot of raw emotions and Evan isn't really thinking about what he sating which really hurts Heidi because of the things that he ends up saying to her, but at the end of the argument, even though he has a lot of time to think about what he says, he says something to really hurt Heidi knowing that it will win him the argument, in the hopes that she will give up and drop the topic. At the start of the rehearsal process, we started off with both characters stood up and walking around but then we felt like it wasn't the right situation for the scene so we changed it to me playing Heidi starting sitting down, and Evan walks in and she is just sat there looking at him before she starts talking to him, then he ends up joining her sat down and then she gets angry and upset and she doesn't want to say something she regrets so she stands up to sort of give them both some space, she then sits back down when the conversation gets really heavy as if she wants to comfort him, but she also doesn't know how in a way. We thought that Evan shouting back worked, but he wasn't too angry he still managed to stay quite calm, calmer than Heidi could. I found myself relating to Heidi, not in the fact of a parent arguing with their child, but being in an argument where you are not understood or the things you do aren't appreciated enough, and I felt using that personal emotion made it easier to do the scene because I was able to use that emotion in my acting.  

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