Concluding the decision of using themes of Power, Fame, Beauty and Feminism throughout the performance, it was the general consensus amongst the cast that using Shakespeare within our piece was a fundamental aspect due to the challenge of re-interpreting Shakespeare being a challenge we openly accepted. Thus looking at the male monologues in particular from various plays such as Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear links were found between certain characters. For instance subtle links were found between Hamlet and Titus Andronicus’ monologues in their theme of contemplation, or rather I interpreted them thus. Therefore by editing both of these to create a dialogue between both characters, this was taking them completely out of the context of the play as their deliverance would be comedic, as opposed to them originally being a part of a tragic play.

Subtle links were found between King Lear and Titus also in terms of their maddening tone, with MacBeth and the character of Caliban it seemed that their similiar plan of plotting murder evoked comedic tones and so coupling these seemed appropriate. As well as pairing King Lear’s famous “O reason not the need…” monologue with Hamlet’s monologue, they both comparatively sound alike a teenage tantrum once read as such. And so these 4 individual pairings seemed to each produce themes of Contemplation, Madness, Murder and Indulgence, and due to each of their ‘dialogues’ lasting roughly 2 minutes it seemed that they would work well as transitional scenes, acting as sub-themes, between the main themes consisting of Pop Culture, Power, Fame, Beauty, Feminism and Comedy.