Tuse Mahenya

Because of the way the female characters in Detroit are written, Tiffany and I ended up taking two scenes from the play and editing them out so that our characters have equal input in the final performance. As a result, both of our scenes include a mini monologue and some dialogue.

Our challenge with having monologues and dialogues in our scene has been making sure we are still listening and responding when only one character is speaking. So in our rehearsals, we're treating the monologues as a dialogue of sorts, where listening and responding is physical as well as verbal.

To help with this, we looked at the set design of different adaptations of the play to help us get a sense of how we can use the black box to create a set that helps us commit to our given circumstances and makes us really grounded in the performance.