Act One, Part Three


In this section, with the phrase “What happened to the third child?” Tupolski loses all pretence. My character advances suddenly to the table and continues to speak forcefully as he interrogates Katurian about the three missing children. I believe that before Tupolski was hoping for Katurian to either admit or let slip information about the missing children, but now instead he chooses to give him some of the information in the hope of getting a reaction. I think this is in part because there is still a third child that Tupolski needs to find. He cannot wrap up this investigation quickly because there is still a loose end which needs tying up, and because Tupolski believes himself to be a good detective there is no other solution but to do this. In truth, I think that Tupolski is tired. He gets no joy from his job, it’s just something he does because he’s good at it, and for him his motivation is mostly that he wants to go home. The previous section where Tupolski is exaggerative, where he insults Katurian’s brother, it’s all a part of winding Katurian up and getting him off guard so that when he does question him out of the blue, Katurian is overwhelmed and is therefore more likely to give him the information that he wants.

There may end up being some variation between the two Tupolski’s in this scene. While James is able to express his power through the deepness and loudness of his voice, this is much harder for me to replicate as my voice does not cover the same range. I think that there will be moments when, as a female Tupolski, I will have to become more serious and use a softer tone in order to create the effect that James can through shouting.

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