I
discovered this audition notice four days before the audition, so I didn’t have
time to memorize a dramatic Shakes monologue. That’s my lame-ass excuse and I’m
forced to stick with it.
It was a
Sunday morning audition and I was the second to go in. I did my Comedy of
Errors monologue and got some good reactions from the director. She asked if I
had a contemporary dramatic monologue. I said I didn't (I did, but I was fuzzy on
it), so I offered to do the first part of a monologue from Coriolanus that I remembered,
and I did.
Callbacks
were cold readings. The excerpts were emailed ahead of time and I was told to
familiarize myself with the part of Ross. I thought I did okay. At one point, I got a tiny bit of unintentional spittle on my face from the actor I was paired off with. Those are the risks you take in a Shakespeare scene.
I was
eventually offered the part of Lennox, which I took.
