Another
sides-only audition. The ones the company emailed me weren’t very promising. It
seemed a very silly play. And I was carrying a chip on my shoulder from a perceived snub from another theatre company I'd gotten recently.
Nevertheless
I showed up to this audition with a positive outlook.
While
waiting in the anteroom with a few other actors I heard some overacting in the
audition room. I can’t cringe anymore. I'm familiar with this theatre and their usual style of shows.
They’re probably lapping it up in there.
I go in
with an actor and actress. The director has a male friend fill in for the
fourth slot in the cold readings.
I am two
decades older than the three other actors and the first part I read for is an
elementary school student. Second time around, same scene, I play another
school student.
Third
time around, new scene, I play the teacher. Then we’re asked to improv a scene
where we shit talk a co-worker. Since I’m not very good at improv, I spend most
of the scene not making up new jokes, but merely reacting to everyone else’s.
The next
afternoon I get the standard rejection email.
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