I thank you for making it clear. I enjoy learning from you!!!!

My name is Mario, I will tell you my story for one carton of milk and half eaten hotdog


there once was a man named Pablo. Pablo was not a very good man, he had of habit of sending his plumbers on dangerous missions to save a princess and defeat a dragon. It is not a good life, but it is my life.

I would use a tie microphone as your voice is relatively low.

The sound is very low ...I cannot hear what you are explaining.

So, something I've been struggling with is how to convey emotion without the character on stage flat out saying what they're feeling. It's different in movies and books obviously because you can introduce a lot more subtleties like facial expression and metaphor and inner monologue and all that stuff, but I feel like on stage all that stuff is kind of out the window. Obviously most people aren't going to be able to analyze your facial expression from the audience. They might see big, exaggerated facial expressions but, yeah.. And of course inner monologue won't work, unless you're play happens to have a narrator... metaphor /simile definitely can't work... since both are generally used to describe what a character is feeling without actual need for on -the-nose statements or dialogue… Something like the city pissed rain , Or Hemmingway's famous "hills like white elephants" ... Any suggestions for how to convey emotion, specifically an emotion like depression., on stage...?

Is a plot = story ?
is the theme = main idea or topic ?