Nike Doukas from Ep. #6 talks text work on performing contemporary iambic pentameter and verse from Mike Bartlett's King Charles III. You'll hear that Nike brings the same tools that she would to any verse text, classical or modern. There are some wonderful insights she brings to the language of this piece and what you need to be thinking about.
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Nike’s monologue from King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
TV PRODUCER
This may seem strange, but sometimes I wake up
From nightmares where I have been on TV
And something’s happened, just by chance, perhaps
A light has blown, or chair collapsed, but I
Am shocked, and jumping look ridiculous.
And then that clip goes viral and from then
Forever more, I am the girl who jumped
It is the matter of my life, and when
I die it will be what is writ, not all
I did, and wanted, and achieved, but that:
A captured idiocy stuck on repeat.
/Enter Charles/
Your Majesty. Welcome. Here’s the microphone
Into which you’ll speak, the autocue is there.
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