Contrasting Monologue - After The End

I found a monologue from a play called 'After The End' by Dennis Kelly and decided to read the script and give it a go. 

Synopsis-

After his recent arrest, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was described as a man who had "a difficulty in controlling his impulses". Whatever the outcome of this particular court case, it is a story that gives Dennis Kelly's After the End an unsettling topicality.

The claustrophobic two-hander is about Louise, a popular young office worker, who wakes to find herself in an underground nuclear fallout shelter. Mark, a colleague from the reprographic department, explains he has rescued her from the carnage created by a suitcase bomb. Luckily, he never got rid of the old shelter in his garden. Luckily, he kept it stocked with food.

It could be an episode of The Survivors were it not for Mark using the situation to exert his control. Free of the social pecking order that defined him as the workplace misfit and her as the alpha female, he tries to strong-arm Louise into showing him respect. Throw in his sexual urges, and we are in the dark territory of John Fowles's The Collector. Kelly seems to suggest that, given a bit of power, a man will cut out the complexity of a two-way relationship and assert his own desires.

Within this monologue, Mark is telling Louise how he carried her back and how he got lost because everything was destroyed. Marks in his late 20's and ha sexual urges towards Louise. I didn't feel comfortable reading this script as I didn't really understand it towards the end when he speaks about the patterned paving on the floor. However I did like the character of Mark and thought he was interesting how he had all this shelter planned out with food already stocked inside it. I could imagine myself playing Mark but I was also bit unsure of this because of his age. When I performed this one too the class they gave me the following feedback

• We didn't feel the emotion from you 
• We need to see your anger when you say about not being able to find the junction
• We need to believe that your speaking to someone else (louise) 
• Dont rush through it. Slow down. Play every line with intention