Helloo there!
It was a busy weekend for me here in Chicago. Two auditions and plenty of errands to run. Here's a rundown of how it went.
Audition #1:
I wouldn't exactly call this a train wreck but.....well it wasn't my strongest. I don't think I fully understood what they were looking for in terms of monologues, so I didn't give them what they wanted. My Shakespeare went fine. It was the second piece that was maybe not so good.
They were looking for something really physical. Not a dance really, but something that incorporated lots of movement. Aaanndd...that's not what they got from me. I definitely went out of my comfort zone of, "park it and bark it" but I didn't quite incorporate as much of the physical element they were asking for.
Oh well! I would love to be a part of the Sarah Ruhl play, but it just wasn't not meant to be.
Audition #2:
I felt stronger about this audition. I did the Walcott poem "Love After Love" as well as a monologue from a played called A Passion Play
Individually, I think both monologues went well. I performed "Love After Love" in a different style than I did the day before, which was fun and I liked it a lot better. The monologue from A Passion Play was decent, although the lines were not 100% perfect and that always adds a hint of hesitation when you're not sure of what you're saying.
Together, I don't really know if I like these two monologues as a package. The common theme bonding them together is passion. Passion for a person in the poem and passion for a place and for life in the second piece. Still I'm not sure that they are contrasting enough. I think they have the potential to work well together, but I just don't know. I've got another audition coming up in a few weeks and I'm going to keep tweaking to see if I can get them to play nicely together.
In other news, we're approaching the 1 month mark! Hard to believe we've been doing this for a month already! I'll be writing a month recap, so stay tuned for that!
-Kristi
