“Love me, love me, say that you love me,  fool me,  fool me, go on and fool me”

The Singer, as a character, and even the actor performing as him are guilty of letting this emotional injustice of a devastating break-up happen to them. If you look up the word fool it is defined as “a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person” which is actually a rather accurate description of both character and performer. There seems to a strong presence of my own conscious actually protecting me from this piece. It’s almost like a security alarm of sorts that if I just get to close to the issue at hand I just close off and don’t want to do it. But by utilising this aspect of the character I’m able to pass that break and really dig into the core of the problem.

There is a big difference in ” becoming the fool” and “to fool” The latter is more malicious, however could this aspect of fooling the audience be a element in Lovefool? I don’t really believe I duped the audience into a false construction as there was hint of my own self in the show. However it could be argued that I have intentionally misled the audience into believing this “character’s” cynical views on love. Whilst I do agree with everything I say in this piece there seems to be a aspect that has made it heightened, so for example no I as the actor do completely agree that love makes you a slave but there is a part of me that contemplates that if I really think that. As with any performance, or art, there is a sense of heightening of reality and I do honestly believe that Lovefool does toy with reality in the aspect of what is genuine and what is not but I have to say that, as performer and the developer of this, Lovefool was honest. In the aspects of the word “fool” I was merely playing a fool because I am a fool which is possibly the perfect case of typecasting ever. Rounding it up I believe that the construction of Lovefool relies on my honesty. I as a performer need this to be real, and if the artificial aspect of developing a character is needed to get myself through this then so be it.