Fosca
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Shakespeare Monologue: Help!This isn't actually for an audition. I've enrolled in one of those audition workshops though, and the teacher is asking for a Shakespearean monologue. I've chosen Lady Macbeth's first monologue (the one she speaks during Act I, Scene V). I've got the part where she reads Macbeth's letter down fairly well. However, the rest is killing me. Exactly how do you communicate Shakespeare to an audience that normally wouldn't understand the lines?
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what_the_heck013
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Don't do that one (if you have a choice). It's so boring! Her best monologue is her famous Act V speech ("Out damned spot...").
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pinkstiletto510
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I love Lady Macbeth, what a great character!! I did a workshop with a locally well-known Billy specialist and he does this thing where you have to change at the end of every line....EVERY LINE it's more difficult than you think because you still need to make sense and justify your change
I'm sure you have already but if you havent, research into Lady Macbeth. Make a psycho chart for her (as in measure her craziness throughout the play and in just that one monologue)
it sure is a challenge, have fun 
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MaryMag
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Re: Shakespeare Monologue: Help! | Fosca wrote: | | This isn't actually for an audition. I've enrolled in one of those audition workshops though, and the teacher is asking for a Shakespearean monologue. I've chosen Lady Macbeth's first monologue (the one she speaks during Act I, Scene V). I've got the part where she reads Macbeth's letter down fairly well. However, the rest is killing me. Exactly how do you communicate Shakespeare to an audience that normally wouldn't understand the lines? |
Well, the casting directors listening to your monologue would have heard it before and will know it. So I'm not sure just how much you have to make them understand it, since they already will. But maybe CDs would be looking for someone who can communicate the meaning well... I dunno. I'm just going in circles. It's getting late.
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