After working through the scene with everyone, it really gave me a better understanding on how Ranyevskaya feels when returning to the estate and how she interacts with the other characters in the scene. I decided that her objective of the scene was to; settle in and find her place at home again. I feel she doesn't want to think about any of the negative things that have happened to her in past, she's trying her best to ignore them and so she is mainly focusing on the fact she's back in her childhood home, "And now i'm like a little girl again." This meant that I had a better understanding of Ranyevskaya's mindset and the motivation behind her movements and lines. I action-ed my first line "The nursery!" as 'to address' as she is addressing the fact she recognizes the room as the nursery she grew up in. I then action-ed the next line from "The nursery..." to "...now I'm like a little girl again." as 'to develop' as she then develops on her feelings towards the nursery and the memories the room conjures back up. I then action-ed the last few lines from "And Varya's..." to "...I recognize..." as 'to greet' as she is re-finding her footing and familiarising herself with everyone again. She connects all the people she greets, Gayev, Varya and Dunyasha, with the estate - so as she's fimiliarising herself with the room again, she's also re-learning all these old faces. By actioning her lines, I really understand how to perform the lines as true to my interpretation of her character - it helps me develop my understanding of her characterisation and how she approaches different lines and characters.

9    As Ranyevskaya's role in this scene is limited, there's only two units to which I split up her lines. I felt that the first section, from "The nursery.." to "And now i'm like a little girl again..." falls into one unit - as it is mainly Ranyevskaya is reminiscing about the room and conjuring the memories that it brings, her main objective in this scene is to simply settle back in and to feel at home again after being away for so long. Then from "And Varya..." to "I recognize.." I falls into a different unit as she has moved on from thinking about the room to greeting the people she hasn't seen in a while. Her main objective in this scene is to greet her family and friends after being away for so long. 

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