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CAST INTERVIEWS
1. Daon Broni/TOMAZO and Gabriel Fleary/ALONZO
What’s happened in the scene you’ve just rehearsed (See p.25 in this pack)
Gabriel Well, I’ve just been introduced to my wife to be, she’s been betrothed to me for a period of time…
I’m extremely excited to see her, and I’ve come along with my brother who is my parental aspect
right now, you know, he’s committed to look after me and he’s just watched over our first interaction
as an engaged couple…
Daon Yeah, I think basically we’ve come into the scene from two different points of view. Alonso is far
more … he’s younger, he’s less experienced … I am slightly older, more reserved and more
cautious…
Gabriel Well you were raised the first son with far more responsibility for the house, whereas I am allowed to
be more flippant…
Daon So two very different reactions to the same event … from Tomazo’s point of view something isn’t
right, something about this meeting … there’s a certain amount of ceremony, a sort of ritual and
within the context of the play we don’t get to see that when Alonzo first meets Beatrice-Joanna, and
that immediately makes me suspicious of her and her intentions toward my brother, because
ultimately I’m very protective of him, of family, of our family name, of the honour of our family name.
So I think this is me going: hold on, something isn’t right here, let’s just take a step back.
Gabriel Yeah, you’ve got a really objective view while I’m blinded by the fact that I want this girl, I want to
marry her.
Daon Blinded by her beauty.
Gabriel And I’ve got no reason to think she doesn’t feel the same way about me, so the way she reacts, it’s
like ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter’.
Daon There’s an instinctual thing as well, when you see someone and you can’t really put your finger on it,
but you feel something isn’t right, and Tonazo can’t express it because he hasn’t got any real proof.
Why can’t Alonzo see that Beatrice isn’t in love with him?
Daon Broni as
TOMAZO and
Gabriel Fleary as
ALONSO in
rehearsal (photo:
Stephen Vaughan)
Gabriel I’ve got no reason to think otherwise, I mean up to this point …our communications, she’s been
sending gifts …it’s all been ‘yes’. He’s young and naïve, but he’s not looking for faults, he’s happy
with the situation. My brother’s being cautious, I’ve got years of people saying ‘yes she’s perfect for
you, yes she really likes you’, so I’m not going to take one moment where she doesn’t bow deeply
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