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Date: 1/5/2004 7:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 24704
I say you use a monologue from Oedipus the king, but that's just me...  |
Date: 1/5/2004 7:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 56840
Hmm, I can't think of any off the top of my head.. Try searching for something that sounds happy when you read it to yourself.. Then try reading it like you're some evil, greedy vampire out looking for your lunch..hehe.. Something not necessarily well-known, but some piece that you think has some dramatic parts to it..  |
Date: 1/5/2004 7:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
How much time is alloted per peice or audition?  |
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Date: 1/5/2004 7:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
You have two options. Have the one peice with the one character that you have to memorize once with two different styles, or you have one peice with two different characters that you have to memorize all together with no change. I have a few things on my mind that you might could do, but you need to let me know if it is one peice with one character or if you can do a peice with 2 characters in it just once. |
Date: 1/5/2004 8:33:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 23948
It is one piece with one character... but I will read it with one character once, and then I will read it a second time, altering my character so it comes out sounding different.  |
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Date: 1/5/2004 8:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
Why I asked if it was 1 or 2 characters was if you could easily tansition to say girl to boy and back to girl, or girl to girl, or human to animal. So you have a peice where you have just one character, and you have to act two different ways with a single monolauge. There are so many out there I cant even begin to write them all down. The one that comes to mind the most is HAMLET. My sophomore drama class did an assignment where we memorized a section and we all acted it out on our own, our own ideas. In Hamlet, it was the ghost speaking to someone... I am not that familar with the play. Another is the Bloody Scottish Play. If you are into acting/drama and you dont know what the bloody scottish play is, then you dont want to go into acting. For if you say this name on stage, it will surely mess you up. Never, NEVER NEVER say MacBeth on stage unless you are in the actual play, and it is directly in your lines. Never say MacBeth on the stage in general conversation with someone. It will haunt you. True story. Shakespeare is such a great writer to perform a monolauge, but if you dont know what it means in todays "slang" then dont even try shakespeare. If you dont understand it, dont do it. Five minutes... I have a post of a scene I did, but there really isn't much moving around, but it is funny because my character is psychotic, threatening to pound titfers head in with a hammer. Its great.. look into my stories and find it. Cute little mono, if you like it, take it. I will look at it and try to make sure the origional author is on it, because if the origional author isn't in it, then it may not be a good idea to use it... If you have any other questions, feel free to msg me.. I apologize this answer came on so late in the evening. Love ya tonz |
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Date: 1/5/2004 8:59:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
Why I used Hamlet as my first choice, the words pretty much say what you want to do in the act. It is a peice with a lot of movement involved and if you dont move, chances are you wont get the part. |
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Date: 1/5/2004 9:08:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. |
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Date: 1/5/2004 9:08:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.3.2.html |
Date: 1/5/2004 9:41:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 23948
Thank you so much! This is a big help!  |
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Date: 1/5/2004 9:46:00 PM
From Authorid: 42519
If you didn't like my ideas, I still have more, and so msg me... I will see what else I can pull off the top of my head. |
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Date: 1/6/2004 5:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 59940
LB, if you want to DO something ORGINAL, you'll have to go it yourself, kid! If you want to USE an original idea that someone else had, at least give them some cred!! But as for the minor stage fright...don't even look at the audience! I had choir for three years (well, almost) because I loved to sing and my voice was apparently pleasant at the time.I had major stage fright, but my choir instructor told me that you don't really have to look at the audience if you get scared. Look over their heads! But it is prefferable to look at them all, to let them know you appreciate their turn out. As for a monologue, it kind of depends on the intended mood, and how easily that mood can transform!FE  |
Date: 1/7/2004 2:33:00 PM
From Authorid: 52489
Any of the works of Woody Allen, Hunter S. Thompson, or Humphrey Bogart. When I auditioned for Fiddler on the Roof, I read a portion of the monologue in a natural voice, and then switched to a Peter Lorre imitation. I got the part! Don't be afraid to act out, because that's what they want!  |
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