Activity 5.5

Here's a stab at one of the activities for my OU course.

Activity 5.5

Choose two characters from the following list and develop their voices: a fitness fanatic; a disillusioned nurse; a bored, gifted student; a jovial social climber; a music-loving dentist. Make the voices different in rhythm, sentence length, vocabulary, and degrees of eloquence. Write two monologues of up to 300 words each.

A DISILLUSIONED NURSE

Did you administer the patient’s medication? Yes. Tick. Did the patient accept them freely? No. Tick. What approach did you employ to ensure the patient received their medication? I kneeled on his testicles and told him I’d flush his mobile phone down the toilet if he didn’t eat the bloody pills. Tick. I wish. That’d teach the little sod not to drink and drive. I wish I’d seen his face when the police turned up (three hours later). Just one more night in A&E. Just tonight, then four days off. Let’s see what little toe rags they bring in tonight. Girls with black eyes and skinny legs and lads covered in blood they refuse to wash off. Pikey-chav-scum, Ruby would call them. Thank Christ she never became a nurse. Three minutes left. Tea’s cold. No time for another. Sheila says they want anyone working the night shift to start wearing stab vests. Probably just a rumour. Should have stayed at The Lodge. Jean said Mary’s retiring, maybe I could get a transfer. I wonder if poor Mrs Richards died. All those little grandchildren. All that love. It makes no difference in the end. One minute. I wonder what Mick’s doing. I hope charlotte’s in bed. She was still angry when I left. No way am I letting her out ‘til ten when there are pissed kids driving around in cars. If something happened to her they’d bring her here. Charlotte on a stretcher with black eyes and skinny legs. I’ll give Mick a quick ring just to check.

A MUSIC-LOVING DENTIST

Just shut your mouth, how can you say I go about things the wrong way? I wish he’d shut his mouth, he stinks of vodka. Good night was it, mate? I bet you didn’t wanna come here today. I see you’re looking at the Ramones poster on the ceiling, mate. I knew that was a good move. He’s old enough to remember The Ramones. Upper second molar. Gotcha. Hey Ho Let’s Go! We should cover that in the band. Millie’s broken up with her boyfriend again. I’ll see if she fancies coming to the gig tonight, cheer her up. She needs some Rock n Roll in her life…maybe she wouldn’t be late to work then. I’ll ask her when Stinky Pete’s gone. He’s a man who’s got too much Rock n Roll in his life. Mate? I don’t believe it. He’s fucking asleep! Never mind, we’ll soon sort that out. Sorry mate, did that hurt? You might wanna stay conscious for this next bit, then it won’t come as such a shock when I do this- doh! Ha. He really hates me now. Better end with The Kaiser Chiefs tonight. Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby! I can’t believe she’s twenty-one already. I can’t believe she wants to spend her birthday down the Lion watching her old man’s band. God, I hope Gary doesn’t get too pissed. Jan’ll floor him if he tries it on with Ruby again. So’ll I if I have to listen to another version of Shiggy Shtardusht. Nearly done, mate. You’ll be tucked up back in bed within the hour. Sho where were the shpiders? Niow, niow niow niow niow niow niow, niowwww. Thank you very much.