Monologue for acting class?

Question

We have to analyze and perform a monologue for acting class. Here's the first passage of the monologue that is was assigned:

You know the sound of a bone breaking? It goes crack. Just crack. Like popping a piece of kindling over your knee. I’m not going to tell you where I came from because I barely remember. I’m not going to tell you where I am now because I try to pay a minimum of attention to it. Look at my cast. Everyone signed it. Even people I don’t know. I like this one best. It says “Have a nice day… Karen.” I don’t know any Karen. This one says, “Roses are red, violets are blue, for a good time call 589-4562.” And here. It’s a picture of a giraffe. But the giraffe doesn’t have spots. It’s striped, like a zebra.

I basically understand it, but it's hard to distinguish who this girl is talking to. Any ideas?

Here is what i wrote:
My character’s name is Ronnie Davis. Ronnie is a 27 year old woman. She never went to college. Instead she got a low wage job as a waitress at the restaurant down the street from her home. All of her other friends moved away from the small town in which she grew up in right after high school. She is the only one who stayed behind. As such she has very few friends and tries to interact with as few people as humanly possible. Ronnie is not very outgoing. She is introverted, quiet, and as a result of her not having many friends a little bit bitter. She broke her arm when she fell down the flight of stairs of the house that she lives in alone. It is late at night in the room of a hospital where Ronnie is being treated. It is the middle of the winter. Ronnie is conflicted because she is heartbroken but doesn’t want to let it show. This is an example of internal conflict. Ronnie is speaking directly to the audience, who we can infer does not know her current location.

We had to make up a character, and give a little backstory.

Answer 1

it could be many things. She may be talking to her freind, or her mom or her boss but it sounds like she is just talking to the audionce in genral.


ps where do you take acting

Answer 2

I feel sorry for you that you have such an ignorant teacher. If you are supposed to know the character and the "backstory," a word and concept I abhor, why doesn't the teacher give it to you. I know, he or she thinks they are teaching "creativity" and in a sense they are. It is a creative writing assignment, not an acting assignment. No matter how the teacher tries to justify this assignment, it is of no practical value to an actor. It is only part of the swindle that "teachers" foist upon students in the name of acting. You see, educational classes, those taught in academic schools like hs and college have to have academic assignments in them, like writing. Writing has nothing to do with acting, but it is how "teachers" justify teaching acting in an academic setting. What a rip off! Do your best making up the stuff for your assignment and don't bother telling your teacher that I think he or she is cheating you instead of teaching you something about acting.

Answer 3

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