Composing Richard Pankhurst's monologue - Suffragettes

In terms of how to present our suffragette section, i had the idea of doing it from the point of view of Emmeline Pankhurst's loyal husband, Richard Pankhurst, so the audience get a real insight into what the time was like from someone who went through it all - also to keep the theme of women's rights, having a male tell this piece. I put myself in charge of creating Richard's monologue, while the others worked out what would go with it. I composed the monologue to have quite a conversational feel that would tell a story, engaging the audience, but have some life and no bore to it. I found this a very difficult task as it was hard to compose a speech that was factual and informed the audience of detail but for it to be spoken conversational and engaging - rather than just reciting a fact file. To overcome this, there are sections where the character directly addresses the audience to keep them drawn in. Throughout the monologue, I have created spaces where we would add short mini scenes further going into the details, giving the audience a real visual of what occurred.