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I am on my school's speech team and I'm going to be in the drama interp. category.

My speech is "Autumn Sonata" by Ingmar Bergman, if anyone is familiar with it.

It's about a young woman that gets a little tipsy and she all of a sudden confesses her thoughts to her mother that has always looked down upon her throughout her whole life.

My coach says that I should change my levels throughout the speech (tone of voice, speed, .etc). Any tips on changing the levels so that the speech doesn't sound so monotone?

Any tips on having it sound more realistic and less unnatural? I'm not sure how to portray her very well as she's drunk in the script and I don't want it to be too over the top, yet I want it to be believable.

Any ideas?

Well, if you are acting, if I understood correctly, you might want to study how "drunk people" act ;] I mean, a person that's drunk will be very emotional so, since you're already playing an emotional scene, you definitely want to have at least SOME tears. Just watch drunk people on youtube/reallife/whatever. You can even look up information on what drunk people act like. Just try to get into character. If you get into character, you won't have to try so hard to keep your voice "un-monotone". Goodluck!

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