As a performer, explain how you would portray one charater from this extract in order to create impact for your audience?

The Machinal is an expressionist play written in the 1920s by Sophie Treadwell, influenced by the trial of Ruth Snyder. Treadwells intentions in the Machinal are to highlight the oppression of women in a patriarchal society and present the lack of choices present for them. The extract comes at a point when the young woman has been plunged into a loveless marriage and as an expressionist play I will ensure I use both verbal and non-verbal communication skills to create a nightmarish atmosphere and impact my audience.
On the line '' I would increase my pace and pitch to reflect my increased anxiety in the situation and lower my eyeline to the floor, impacting my audience as they feel how nervous I am at being left alone with Mr J who I feel repulsed by. My gestures would become more compact to create a tense atmosphere for my audience and show how I am closing myself off to Mr J just as the machine-like society of the 1920's has closed off emotions or empathy. This would create deep impact for my audience as I paced to a type of beat, trying hard to break it and not conform to the machine society that is prominent everywhere.