Juno Bolye, Juno and the Paycock
JUNO BOYLE
Juno Boyle is a forty- five year old woman living in the Tenement houses of Dublin during the 1920s with her Husband Boyle, daughter Mary and her disabled son Johnny. While going through this play I decided I was going to explore the character of Juno relating to her character on and off the stage. She is described as an overworked, stressed and pressurised woman which was caused by the fact that she is the sole provider for her family. She is a fighter, strong in spirit as well as body and even when the odds are stacked against her she still fights on until her finale breath. “Who has kep th’ home together for the past few years – only me? An’ who’ll have to bear th’ biggest part o’ this trouble but me?” I have decided to improvise Juno in Act III when Mrs Madigan has entered and told her that Johnny has been found shot. “Some poor fella’s been found, an’ they think it’s...it’s” Juno’s confusion and denial emphases the fact that she is grief stricken and heartbroken. I wanted to convey her emotions using voice, facial expressions, gestures and movement so we made up a modern day parallel improvisation. We improvised a group of girls waiting on one of their best friends at the airport as she was getting back from holiday. They were deciding how and who was to tell her that another of their best friends with whom this girl had been friends since they were children, had died of a terminal illness while she had been away. As the girl came up to them and has saying how happy she was to be home and how amazing her trip and how she had to phone her best friend to tell her she was home safe and sound. They all struggle to find the words to tell her that she is dead but eventually she was told. She denies it to begin with saying that was impossible and that she had spoken
Juno Boyle is a forty- five year old woman living in the Tenement houses of Dublin during the 1920s with her Husband Boyle, daughter Mary and her disabled son Johnny. While going through this play I decided I was going to explore the character of Juno relating to her character on and off the stage. She is described as an overworked, stressed and pressurised woman which was caused by the fact that she is the sole provider for her family. She is a fighter, strong in spirit as well as body and even when the odds are stacked against her she still fights on until her finale breath. “Who has kep th’ home together for the past few years – only me? An’ who’ll have to bear th’ biggest part o’ this trouble but me?” I have decided to improvise Juno in Act III when Mrs Madigan has entered and told her that Johnny has been found shot. “Some poor fella’s been found, an’ they think it’s...it’s” Juno’s confusion and denial emphases the fact that she is grief stricken and heartbroken. I wanted to convey her emotions using voice, facial expressions, gestures and movement so we made up a modern day parallel improvisation. We improvised a group of girls waiting on one of their best friends at the airport as she was getting back from holiday. They were deciding how and who was to tell her that another of their best friends with whom this girl had been friends since they were children, had died of a terminal illness while she had been away. As the girl came up to them and has saying how happy she was to be home and how amazing her trip and how she had to phone her best friend to tell her she was home safe and sound. They all struggle to find the words to tell her that she is dead but eventually she was told. She denies it to begin with saying that was impossible and that she had spoken