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| Da_Dark_Dude |
monologue question - please helpmonologue question: for an audition for college, is romeo and juliet extremely overdone? it has to be a shakespearean age appropriate extract and my drama teacher is suggesting this really good extract from R&J... opinions? |
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| MaryMag |
Look at this thread, it discusses some of the issues with selecting a classical monologue:
http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54952 Selecting a classical monologue is difficult, as every Shakespeare monologue seems to have been done to death. I suggested a monologue from a Greek play, but someone was right in correcting me that auditioners will probably be looking for something in verse. |
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| Da_Dark_Dude |
thank you, it does however state that the monologue has to be shakespearean  which doesnt really help much i suppose
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| jazzygirlsings |
Choose something outside of the "required reading" that everyone's had to do in school...(Like R&J, The Scottish Play and Julius Caesar...) | ||
| opheliarose |
What play are you auditioning for? | ||
| Salome |
try something from King John,Henry VIII, or Measure for Measure. | ||
| Da_Dark_Dude |
its for uni auditions thanks salome & jazzy, il check them out... my fear is that they may not b age appropriate. Steve |
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| opheliarose |
How old are you? What character were you considering from R&J? | ||
| Roger's Chica |
After working with Shakespeare at the university level this year (the current mainstage is Twelfth Night so the Bard is all over the place this year... much more so than the past 2), I'm getting the impression that people are starting avoid R&J, especially the less well-known sections, because they are automatically assuming it's overdone.
I've seen Petruchio, Corolanius (I've mangled the spelling there), Caeser, King John, Richard III and... (oh god, I can't remember the other one, I apologized) this week. Oh, and Puck's speech at the end of Midsummer Night's Dream was very popular when I was doing college auditions 3 years ago. |
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| Da_Dark_Dude |
il b 18 come the audition. rogerschica... thank u. u think i shud stick to R&J?
Steve |
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| Roger's Chica |
What Act and Scene are you looking at for R&J? | ||
| Da_Dark_Dude |
"In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face."
Act V, sc. 3 (line 74) |
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| opheliarose |
Look at Lucentio in Shrew or Florizel in The Winter's Tale. Similar to Romeo but done less often (especially Florizel). The cousins have some good stuff in the Two Noble Kinsmen but I can never keep straight which is which. | ||
| Da_Dark_Dude |
ok thank u. will have a look |