Week 55

Wednesday 2nd April 2025 

Audition preparation and understanding- My prep  

 • I straight away thought the writing was incredible, and I could instantly see the realness within the scenes and the character interactions and relationships. It felt as if I was reading a a snippet of real life, which made me very excited about the project itself.

• In terms of characters I resonate more with Lindsey- I feel I fit the casting for her quite well in terms of physical appearance and playing age. I can also emotionally relate more to her as a younger actor and I find her role within the story to be something I can fit myself into well. In terms of characters I like within the play I would definitely say Abigale, because personally I feel that she has one of the most intense character journey throughout the play- beginning her journey with motherhood at the centre of her life and holding a very maternal sense. Her sense of purpose and self is then drastically altered when Susie is murdered and who she is as a mother is questioned in her mind along with trying to grieve her daughter. I interpret Abigail leaving the family as her trying to get away from what she would relate to Susie along with finding comfort in the idea that someone can understand her and the type of pain she’s in.

• The heaviness of this play is a challenge within itself and balancing maintaining and hitting those emotional beats along with the general production of the show which I already know is going to be very difficult. The family and character dynamics within the play are going to be a fun challenge, and finding the layers within the individual connections that the separate characters have with one another

• I should be researching the effects of murder/ missing person cases on a society, along with the reality of these situations like what actually happens realistically in these situations nothing dramatized and truly understanding the ins and outs of the long process.

• It explores the effect of living within a family that’s fractured in some way- which I feel fits both Abigail and Lindsey, even though the monologue is from the perspective of a teenager.

• The monologue I’ve picked shows my understanding of naturalistic text and how to approach characters from a real life prospective

My audition

Preparation for my audition was a little bit different than it has previously been. I normally have a clear idea of who I'm going for when auditioning and this time I was still slightly unclear and ended up going into the room with two characters in mind and a monologue that I thought gave a reflection of both- although it did lean more towards Lindsey as it was from the prospective of a teenager. I feel I prepared to a good standard, I could of done more character research for the characters I was going for and if I could do it again I would do that, and give myself a clearer image of them within my mind, although It's nothing that effected my performance of my chosen monologue. I'm happy with the delivery of my monologue, and I feel I hit the emotional beats in the way that I wanted, whilst sustaining an even volume throughout. I do feel like I have a tend to fidget when performing, and I definitely did this within my audition and part of that is down to nerves but I do always need to remember to give myself more of a beat before beginning my audition just to make sure that I can keep myself more centred throughout. I felt I was prepared to answer the questions that I was asked within the audition, and I found being asked the questions to be a helpful way to breakdown were I stood with my opinions on the play and my journey and how I wanted to callenge myself 

Thursday 3rd April 2025

Today we had our recalls for our end of year show auditions, but instead of being able to learn some of the scenes we were recalled with, we instead had to in a way cold read them- taking the scripts into the audition and getting around an hour before hand to put down some quick blocking before going into the recalls. We were paired with multiple different people depending on the characters we were recalled for. I was recalled for both Lindsey and Abigail, so had quite a few different groups I got to audition with, and even though we had some time to practise a few things I still hadn't gone through all my scenes fully with every group so felt slightly nervous when going in for those particular scenes- especially because I have a habit to skip lines and words when cold reading. Some of the scenes I found more difficult to cold read for were some of the romantic ones, more specifically the ones Abigail had with Feddamen as they weren't set up in a typical romance way and instead their bond with one another is fuelled by their shared experiences with sudden loss, so navigating those for me over a cold read was more difficult. Overall I think the recalls went okay and I enjoyed the challenge of them being set up like an a recall we would get outside of collage, as it makes up more prepared for being put into those situations. 

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