tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18648143839072348342024-03-27T19:53:10.832-04:00An Actors PlayhouseAn Actors Playhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777238493467148964noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864814383907234834.post-47526986505648755782022-12-06T13:24:00.004-05:002022-12-06T13:27:59.720-05:00MONOLOGUES FOR AUDITIONS<p>Hey housemates, </p><p>Here are some monolgues that you can perform at any audition.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>FEMALES:</u></b></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"><b><u>From the play The One-Eyed Guru.</u></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"><b>Age range: 20s- 50s</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>Rachel, an unassuming but surprisingly determined woman, has returned home at an unusually late time, where she is confronted by her husband, Jack, who has been anxiously waiting up for her. Eventually, however, it is Rachel who does the confronting, when she produces a scant of </b></span></i><i><span style="color: red;"><b>particular significance.</b></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i></i><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>The actual use of a light scarf would work well here, adding a physical dynamic at various points throughout the piece, but of course it could justas easily be mimed.</b></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Proffering a scarf) Here, take it. It's Melanie's: (<i>Beat</i>) Yes, Jack, Melanie's - you do remember Melanie, don't you? You work with her every day… to say the least. Surely her name must</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ring a bell or two? I know it's hers. I know it from that pungent smell of a Chanel No. 5 knock-off. That and the fact that I found the tail end of it poking out from beneath our bed. (<i>Beat.</i>) I've seen her wearing it often. It's obviously a favourite. Which is why I'm sure she'd be very relieved to have it returned. (<i>Beat.</i>) And no, this didn't make me feel any better, Jack… having you wait up into the night, wondering all the time where I was? Having you worry and fret about who I was with or what I was doing? Having nasty, insidious thoughts clawing their way into your mind as you tried like a fool to pretend to yourself that everything was all right? No, it didn't. Not really. (<i>Beat</i>) But perhaps… perhaps if everybody knew but <i>you</i>, because you were too cowardly or naive to face the obvious: perhaps if <i>you</i> had <i>your</i> friends telling you that you were being made a mockery of, perhaps if <i>you'd</i> had the phone slammed down on you a dozen times the moment your voice was heard on the other end; perhaps if <i>you'd</i> smelled cheap perfume on your husband's jacket, on his shirts, on the sheets, in the car, up your nose, always, everywhere, lined to the inside of your nostrils like some noxious chemical you couldn't escape no matter where you went, no matter what you did, then yes, <i>yes…</i> I might have felt better.</p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 34px;"><b></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><u>From the play The Treachery of Images.</u></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Age range: 20s - 50s</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>In The Treachery of Images, a married couple are placed in the </i><i>unthinkable position of having to come to terms with the murder of their </i><i>daughter. While the wife, Christine, has withdrawn into a deadened </i><i>world of suppressed rage and bitterness, her husband, Tom, has taken </i><i>the unusual step of publicly announcing his forgiveness of their daughter's</i></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>killer, driving a profound wedge between them. Here Christine is found </i><i>examining the nature of their relationship and whether what they thought </i><i>they had together ever really existed.</i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i></i><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>In the original play, Christine is described as a woman of middle age, </i><i>but in this particular monologue there's nothing in the text to prevent the </i><i>age range from being broadened.</i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Ah, yes. that word again... : The problem is there's a you and a there's a me, but I don't believe that there is an <i>us</i> anymore. I sometimes wonder if there ever was. In the beginning, I suppose. But looking back…… what was it? (<i>Beat</i>) What was it really? I'm sure I thought it was love, but I wonder now if it was really just… a close approximation? Because it's all so new, isn't it, when you're starting out? So how are you supposed to know? How do you know what you’re feeling? How do you know if it's the real thing or… or just something close to it? How do you know the difference? I mean, you're innocent and naive and everything’s new, and... then one day you meet someone and you find yourselves attracted to each other, and you share things in common and you make each other laugh and feel special and important in ways you'd never felt before, and it's all rather like being a little drunk. And while it's all still heady and intoxicating, you find yourselves making all kinds of plans</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and commitments for the future, and you're so caught up in it all that you don't even notice the buzz wearing off. It all becomes a blur of years and events, of birthdays and anniversaries, highs and lows…a lifetime. And you never stop to re-examine it...not really. Because it's done. And you're</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">scared to. So you don't. (<i>Beat.</i>) Until something like this happens.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><u><span style="color: red;"><b>From the play The Reptia, included in the collection Going </b></span><b style="color: red;">Solo: One-Act Plays for One Actor.</b></u></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Age range: 20s - 60s</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>Taken from the one person play The Replica, we're presented here with an abused wife who we find recounting her recent attempt at regaining some sense of order amid her ever-deteriorating surroundings. Though her manner is friendly and personable, it's also somewhat impassive, a result</b></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>of her having become inured to her unfortunate circumstances.</b></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first time he hit me he seemed genuinely horrified at what he'd done. He appeared, in his anguish, and much to my surprise, to actually take a step back and re-examine himself and the person he'd become. The second time, less so. The third and thereafter it became a matter of routine. (<i>Beat</i>.) Like anything, I suppose, the more you do it the less you think about it. Familiarity breeds contempt…and contempt becomes familiar. It's all what you get used to, isn't it? (<i>Beat</i>.) Before long, I found my face to be hardening almost as fast as my heart. I thought about telling someone. I thought about a lot of things. It's all I ever seemed to do - stare out at nothing in particular… wondering if it would change. (<i>Beat</i>) Eventually it got to the point where I’d let both myself and the house go to such an extent that even I couldn't stand it anymore. One morning, I got up and showered first thing, just like normal people did, made a little effort in my appearance - for what purpose, | was't quite sure, but I did it anyway- and began the task of reclaiming some sense of order out of the chaos that was now my habitat. With a zeal that surprised even me, I swept, dusted, cleaned, sorted, and organized. The bedroom, in particular, had become a shrine to neglect, and the piles of dirty clothes and discarded folderol seemed never-ending. Still, I persevered. Nearing the end of my task, I decided to make sense of the stack of business papers and printed emails that Karl routinely emptied from his briefcase onto the floor of his closet. As I stacked and tidied, I came upon a pornographic magazine filled with pictures of naked teenagers, all with Russian names. Dimitri, Vladimir, Igor, Kostya, Alek. I pushed the magazine back amongst the pile of papers as surreptitiously as I imagined Karl must've done on numerous occasions, and</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">banished the thought of it from my mind. (<i>Beat</i>.) I'd never seen it.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><u>MALES:</u></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><u>From the play Suburban Redux.</u></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Age range : 20s - 50s</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i>Tristram a rather shy, awkward young man with a slight stutter has just been rebuffed by the high-spirited woman he adores. What began as friendship, son developed into something far more amorous in nature on Tristram’s part, but when his confession of love is met with rejection, he attempts - with painful honesty - not only to accept her decision but to justify it. This is a monologue that will certainly speak to anyone who has ever felt less than adequate in the presence of more dazzling, vivacious company.</i></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i>While the character in the original play is portrayed as a man of younger years, there is nothing here in the text to prevent an actor of any age from performing this monologue.</i></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No, no, it's quite all right. And it isn't self pity, it it's self knowledge. I'm quite aware of who I am. And I'm quite aware that I've never had a-a particularly interesting or revealing thing to say or contribute in my entire life. And you</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">needn't be kind, I-I'm not in need of sympathy. Self- knowledge is a source of strength if one's able to embrace it. But the fact remains, when you get right down to it, I'm a decidedly dull individual, and it was stupid and vain of me to</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">imagine you could regard me as anything else. But it's who I am. I don't wish to be dull. Who would? I can imagine nothing more wonderful than to be an object of fascination in the eyes of another. But no matter how I try it's not to be - not for me, at least. (<i>Beat</i>) But, you see, unlike your husband, whenever I look in the mirror I'm more than capable of facing the truth - however sobering. (<i>Beat</i>) Oh, don't get me wrong - I-I’m not saying I don't find<i> life</i> interesting. I do. I find it immeasurably interesting, as I do people, and art, and music, and literature… and you. I think that must be why I love you a-and love being with you as much as I do - you fill in the bits of me that are missing. When I'm with you I feel as though I <i>am</i> interesting and witty and clever. And I'm sure any number of psychologists would be happy to tell me that that's vicarious a-and weak and wrong of me, but you see… it makes me so very happy. (<i>Beat</i>.) But with you, as with the arts, I'm simply a receptacle for someone else's abilities. I absorb them, I feed on them, they enrich me, but at the end of the day…I bring nothing to the table<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><u>From the play <i>One Night Only</i>, included in the collection <i>Going Solo: One-Act Plays for One Actor.</i></u></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Age range: 20s - 60s<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>Denny is a prison inmate on death row in a Southern U.S. penitentiary. On the last night of his life he decides to conduct an interview with himself while awaiting the imminent arrival of his executioner, who is in an adjoining room and visible through a semitransparent window. Here we find him recalling his initial motivation for contemplating the act of murder as well as his moral justification for choosing to act on those thoughts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i></i><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>While a Southern American accent might seem obligatory here, it most definitely isn't. There are almost 3,000 inmates on death row in the United States (at the time of writing) hailing from all parts of the country, as well as roughly 35 foreign nationals from across the globe.</b></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You wanna know about the first time? (<i>Beat</i>.) The first time, the first time, yes, yes, yes... well, well, well… the first time, yes, well, I'd been thinking about it, you see - about killing someone - for quite some time. Quite some time. Years, as a</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">matter of fact. And then one day I just decided to do it, just because I could, and… because I wanted to know what it felt like, and because I had the ability and the intellectual curiosity, and because... well, I think it's fairly safe to assume</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I was probably having a <i>bad day</i>: <i>(Beat) </i>And they said, “But you knew it was wrong, Denny.” <i>(Beat.)</i> But wrong? What's wrong? It's only wrong if you choose to call it wrong. Same as right. Someone decides what's called wrong and whats</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">called right. They just give it a name. They say that that's wrong and that's right, that's yours and that's mine. Doesn't mean they're right. It's just a choice. Look at him in there - he's about to kill me, and what's more he's being paid to do it</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">by the same people who say what I did was wrong. So you tell</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">me? And no one paid me. And I wouldn't say he looks particularly bothered about it either, would you? Look at him, shuffling around in there like he had all day. <i>(Beat.)</i> Hey! <i>(Beat.)</i> Hey! <i>(Beat, then with ferocity.)</i> HEY!I DON'T HAVE</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">ALL DAY!</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><b><span style="color: red;"><u>From the play The Treachery of Images.</u></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Age range: 20s - 60s</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><b><span style="color: red;">In the days and weeks following the murder of his young daughter, Tom </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red;">has appeared unusually calm and detached, provoking anger and exasperation from his grief-stricken wife. Here, however, after a particularly virulent confrontation, he finally opens up and reveals to her the reason for his frequently impassive demeanor.</span></b></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i></i><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><b><span style="color: red;">As mentioned previously, though a man of middle age in the source play, </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red;">nothing in the text here prevents this monologue from being performed by </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red;">an actor of any age.</span></b></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’m.. sure that you already know this, but.. when the human body is… injured in some way, some quite painful way… it releases endorphins into its system in order to numb itself to that which… might otherwise be unbearable. It creates its own opiate to drug itself into tolerating the intolerable. It's how it survives…or tries to. (<i>Pause.)</i> When the police first arrived at my office to...to inform me, consolingly but also quite... bluntly, of what had happened to Susan, I.. well, I don't know how to describe it, quite honestly. Initially I…I didn't believe them, it just didn't seem… possible. I thought there must have been some sort of mistake. I told them as much. <i>(Beat.)</i> They…assured me that there was no mistake… that identification had been found on her body and… that they were… well, very sorry. <i>(beat)</i> After they left I… it didn't so much sink in as …envelop me. Entirely. I waned to scream. Every part of my body wanted to scream. I thought I would explode. It was too much to take in, to contain. I wanted to scream so loudly that the sheer force of my voice would… make it not true. That I could stop it. <i>(Beat)</i> But I couldn't. I couldn't stop it. And I couldn’t</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">scream. <i>(Beat)</i> Instead, this… strange feeling swept over me. Over my mind. Over everything. It was almost physical. I felt it hit me, roll right over me. It hit so hard I thought I would faint. It was like being drunk. Too drunk. Everything was in slow motion, and I was falling… <i>(Beat.)</i> And then I was numb. And I think I knew why… in a way. But it didn't matter, because I couldn't control it. It all just sort of shut down… because it had to. But it was okay, you see, because it made it...because… I could breathe again. It suddenly all looked different. It was apart from me.<i> (Placing his fist against his chest.)</i> It wasn't in here anymore. It was somewhere else.And so was I. <i>(Beat.)</i> And there I've been ever since……hiding.…scared……in this…strange calm. Scared but protected……from all that would consume me...submerge me. I'm on an island, you see? And it's very small… and it's very lonely. <i>(Beat.)</i> And I can't get off it. Not yet. <i>(His voice cracking </i><i>with emotion.)</i> And this is how I survive. And I know it may seem cowardly… but it's what I must do. I know there are storms and raging seas all around me, but…but here … here on my island, if I look up at the sky… it's blue and it's calm. and it's safe. And if I just keep looking up … then the rest of it… I can let go of. <i>(Pause.)</i> Please forgive me.</p>An Actors Playhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777238493467148964noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864814383907234834.post-56715917207916294272022-09-27T00:46:00.002-04:002022-09-27T00:46:37.321-04:00SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 MONOLOGUE FOR ADVANCED <p><span face=""Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px;">Hey Housemates, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Included below, is the side for the <b><u style="background-color: #ffd966;">ADVANCED CLASS ONLY</u></b>. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">NOTE:</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">- Deadline is the 15th of October 2022 </b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">- You need to pick a partner of the opposite sex to work with (It can be someone from the advanced class). </b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">- To submit, upload your monologue to your YouTube channel and make it UNLISTED (not private), then send the link to us via email (actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com).</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 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font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br /></b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br /></b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Century Gothic", Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br /></b></i></p>An Actors Playhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777238493467148964noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864814383907234834.post-46708911853020309972022-08-22T13:30:00.000-04:002022-08-22T13:30:18.194-04:00August/September 2022 Monologue for INTERMEDIATES<p>Hey Housemates, </p><p>Included below, is a monologue for the <b><u style="background-color: #ffd966;">INTERMEDIATE CLASS ONLY</u></b>. </p><p><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">NOTE:</b></i></p><p><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">- Deadline is the 5th of September 2022 </b></i></p><p><i><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">- To submit, upload your monologue to your YouTube channel and make it UNLISTED (not private), then send the link to us via email (actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com).</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">MONOLOGUE:<br /></b></p><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">Like Dreaming, Backwards is a series of monologues and scenes about the suicide of a young college student named <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/nell.html&source=gmail&ust=1661274448514000&usg=AOvVaw2V_552euFJmDs-ZY8BDgto" href="http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/nell.html" target="_blank">Nell</a>. Leah is Nell's mother. The play also includes monologues from an acquaintance, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/yale.html&source=gmail&ust=1661274448514000&usg=AOvVaw0aTISMYGGhdPYbeFG19Xne" href="http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/yale.html" target="_blank">Yale</a>, and her close friend, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/natalie.html&source=gmail&ust=1661274448514000&usg=AOvVaw34Gor-SNowtKRimSSnCbhn" href="http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/natalie.html" target="_blank">Natalie</a>.</span></i></div><p></p><div><i><br /></i></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #16193b; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>LEAH</b>:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #16193b; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">She had chronic depression, ever since she was twelve. Her father had depression, too. And her sister. And I was on antidepressants for a while, when I was her age. She was very high-functioning. She went years without any real incidents. She had control of it when she was in high school. And then, all of a sudden, things just... fell apart. She... spiraled.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #16193b; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">I asked her to move back home, but she said no, over and over again. She was hospitalized last summer. But I really thought that she'd get past it. I thought, "It's just a matter of time before she finds the right medicine, or the right therapist... and things will go back to normal."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #16193b; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">That day, we'd made plans to have breakfast. I called her, but she didn't answer her phone. I thought she'd turned it off and slept late, so I went to her apartment and knocked on her door. It wasn't locked. I went in, and... I found her lying on the floor in the kitchen...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #16193b; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Why didn't she come to me? I would have done anything for her. Anything. Didn't she know that?</span></p></div><div><i><br /></i></div>An Actors Playhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777238493467148964noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864814383907234834.post-85643766489388403152020-09-09T17:30:00.002-04:002020-09-09T17:30:42.445-04:00DIGGING DEEP - True Blood Ties Script<p> Hey Housemates, </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the script for our DIGGING DEEP EXERCISE. Please refer to to my video on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7kv2rHMX4k0scdpL_314IG0Ea5IrOTc71CfE0/">https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7kv2rHMX4k0scdpL_314IG0Ea5IrOTc71CfE0/</a> for all the details you need. </p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE:</p><p>- Deadline is the 23rd of September 2020</p><p>- GIN is the male role</p><p>- JENA is the female role</p><p>- I only want to see you on the screen. </p><p>- Let the voice of the person reading with you be audible. </p><p>- You can send your video submissions vie email (<b>actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com</b>) or upload it on your YouTube channel and make it <b>UNLISTED</b> (not private), then send the link to us via email (<b>actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com</b>).</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u><i><span style="color: red;">Please find attached the script below</span></i></u></b>:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="781" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWYbkcbTVRRygQ342ClDGU3W2qAJ9QSTfkDhij_topb1aaftbibyacsQlZElFt5U4M2bHKZwv09M_67xzQTg_dh9YDP6Ol9gsI9Nrt-ivJ9JXpLM_cEF8G-yXG5tgGZhx78qi358Doi_s/w604-h781/True-Blood-Ties+Script.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="604" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvej2bmTBrkdsBcfHA485dpL6cp1ixGLIrhxAsn6jJYU5TCQCSHI77v1EV-8MAkdTi9qARYjw_GAshrh8oIC-lqxIMipdEahZqfFZDp4mK2_0VProB5dKdFGMq4IRJMubJT5KBUGdfWU/s2048/True-Blood-Ties+Script+pg+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="781" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvej2bmTBrkdsBcfHA485dpL6cp1ixGLIrhxAsn6jJYU5TCQCSHI77v1EV-8MAkdTi9qARYjw_GAshrh8oIC-lqxIMipdEahZqfFZDp4mK2_0VProB5dKdFGMq4IRJMubJT5KBUGdfWU/w604-h781/True-Blood-Ties+Script+pg+1.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsGUn2Gcgr9ZMJaV44Ejj1HgbTBmmGPpF0NMefyC4CYSbvZpPn8lblh3TdaVtrUZlOm8kNf7yJt6hEhv5blJ5WdJJO0A3kFOdTH_JeQFfe0FPGrA2ChgsK2TW7idG_HNGOnWwBj2w1ZM/s2048/True-Blood-Ties+Script+pg+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="781" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsGUn2Gcgr9ZMJaV44Ejj1HgbTBmmGPpF0NMefyC4CYSbvZpPn8lblh3TdaVtrUZlOm8kNf7yJt6hEhv5blJ5WdJJO0A3kFOdTH_JeQFfe0FPGrA2ChgsK2TW7idG_HNGOnWwBj2w1ZM/w604-h781/True-Blood-Ties+Script+pg+2.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicOgLsGuDybsAUDkczQlkP1naRzAVb5i0AbEQ8XcH95Cjl3UnXvpy9PZA0QsXqF1OMy-iQVrc144SZywP1uF828A6h-zbSgY0YyhRPY26fg4Yreu9ZlssxJR57myLx6St9amE3VX4aZI/s2048/True-Blood-Ties+Script+pg+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="781" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicOgLsGuDybsAUDkczQlkP1naRzAVb5i0AbEQ8XcH95Cjl3UnXvpy9PZA0QsXqF1OMy-iQVrc144SZywP1uF828A6h-zbSgY0YyhRPY26fg4Yreu9ZlssxJR57myLx6St9amE3VX4aZI/w604-h781/True-Blood-Ties+Script+pg+3.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>An Actors Playhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777238493467148964noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864814383907234834.post-44140585363341254262020-02-29T13:01:00.000-05:002020-03-03T14:39:27.641-05:00DALLAS CLASS - Monologue and Audition Techniques<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Weekend 1: March 27th & 28th</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As <a href="http://www.actorsaccess.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">actors</span></a>, it can be nerve-wracking to walk into the audition room and perform in front of total strangers. These people get to decide if you have a shot at booking the job, so like it or not, you will definitely get nervous. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Some actors allow their nerves get in the way of their performance, while others begin to act out of character. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="http://www.castingnetworks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">casting directors</span></a> already know that you are nervous so they understand, but beyond that, they want to see that even with the nerves, you are confident in your talent and your performance. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The important thing is not just to know the lines and movements, but to leave a good and memorable impression.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here are 20 of the most impactful and effective tips that will help you nail your auditions and book more work:</span><br>
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<a href="https://www.anactorsplayhouse.com/2018/01/how-to-impress-casting-directors.html#more">Read more »</a>An Actors Playhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777238493467148964noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864814383907234834.post-81323698522015313782017-09-19T13:00:00.002-04:002017-09-19T13:00:57.802-04:00ACTING TERMINOLOGIES ALL PROFESSIONAL ACTORS MUST KNOW!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wrote a blog right here on An Actors Playhouse about <a href="http://www.anactorsplayhouse.com/2016/07/what-every-actor-should-know-about.html" style="color: red;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">"WHAT EVERY ACTOR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT AUDITIONING"</span></a>,<span style="color: red;"> </span>and I gave you a list of words every actor should know the meaning of. I </span><span style="font-size: large;">got a lot of positive feedback, and a lot of you asked for more. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, I have decided to share more terminologies that you must know before going on a professional set.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sometime ago, I traveled to shoot a <a href="http://www.netflix.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">movie</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Prior to my arrival I had studied my script, done my character analysis, script breakdown and all that was left was for me to run it by the Director to make sure that I was on the right track. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, I was thrown of course when the Director told me that I was actually playing the role of a woman who exists and not a fictional character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is one of the strongest points in your <a href="http://backstage.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">acting</span></a>.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So I recently viewed a couple of audition videos and decided that I NEEDED to do a VLOG immediately! </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I had done a similar topic before but I thought I should talk about it again and go into more details. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Click on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">video</span></a> to watch me share some amazing tips that would help you ace any audition and monologue. </span><br>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Getting into acting is one thing, but understanding why you got into it is another thing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">One of the most shocking and most annoying things I have found when I watch some actors, is that they do not</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">act when they are not speaking. That is the number one scene killer for me.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I talked about SCRIPT PREP in the last video and I promised to explain some of the terms I used like CHARACTER BIBLE. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When I started out in the movie industry as a teenager, I made a mistake that I still see a lot of people make till date. This cost me a lot and now that I know better, I hope that you can learn from it. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">One of the mistakes I made when I was a much younger actor, was to get the script for the movie I was a part of and then start to memorize my own lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I would immediately learn my lines, pick the last two words from the lines of my co-actor as my CUE and then go on set believing I had everything on lock down, but when I watched the <a href="http://www.netflix.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">movies</span></a> after release, there was never a satisfactory feeling as regards my performance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I always knew there was something wrong because I couldn't feel the authenticity the character deserved, and the fact that people loved my work and even gave me some awards confused me more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I didn't quite understand how a "not so great performance" would be accepted. Then I realized that most people were carried away with the the whole movie, the story, the music and mood, the movements, the actions and everything as a whole. But on the other hand, I watched the movie isolating my own performance as though my scenes or SCREEN TIME were a stand alone movie, and I could see all the flaws and bad acting because there were no distractions for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The problem I discovered with my work was that I always anticipated the CUE and had already prepared the reaction I would give for my LINES since I had memorized every word. So if I didn't hear the CUE, it would throw me off a bit because I had prepared myself based on the WORDS instead of allowing myself to FEEL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After a while I knew it was time to learn my craft and do it the proper way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So this is what I know now:</span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you receive the script or the SIDE, read it through as many times as you can. At this point you should know the story inside and out. The characters and their relationships should also be known as intimately as you know your friends in real life.<br /><br /></span></li>
<li class="li1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After that, you will have to break down the scenes and do a comprehensive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_study" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">SCENE STUDY</span></a>. In breaking down the scenes, the mood, pace, time, intention, purpose and objective should be marked and understood.<br /><br /></span></li>
<li class="li1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By the time these steps are taken, your subconscious will already know what you are supposed to be saying. This may not be word for word, but knowing and understanding what you are saying, why you are saying it and how you should say it, which is more important than knowing the LINES word for word. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The LINES are the last things I memorize and I do it this way because it makes it easier when all other factors have been taken in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Becoming a CHARACTER is not about knowing the LINES of the character. It is about knowing the WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN and HOW of the character.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you understand the details of every single scene, it makes it easier for you to have an easy flow even when your co-actor changes some words in his delivery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It also takes away the frustration when the DIRECTOR makes quick changes just before he rolls <a href="http://www.red.com/store/cameras" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">CAMERA</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As long as you understand your character and know the objective of each scene, knowing and saying the LINES will be much easier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A lot of young <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.backstage.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">actors</span></a> </span>have this notion that the most important thing in acting is knowing the lines and saying them word for word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Even though it's important to know the lines and say them, you also have to understand what they mean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A little while ago, the only Actors that could showcase their talent for casting directors and agents where those that went to high class drama schools. The talent showcase was and still is a part of the curriculum. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The school invites <a href="http://www.indeed.com/q-Entertainment-PR-jobs.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">PR managers</span></a>, <a href="http://www.hollywoodauditions.com/agents.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">agents</span></a> and <a href="http://www.castingsociety.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">casting directors</span></a> to come and watch their students display all they have learnt. They do this with the hope that their students can book jobs or get representation by an agent who can get them in front of the directors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The first time I heard the word <a href="https://www.livecareer.com/cover-letter-examples" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">COVER LETTER</span></a>, I was literally confused. I began to think that trying to get agents and <a href="http://www.castingsociety.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">casting directors</span></a> was more difficult than getting a job in the White House. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A lot of aspiring actors have different ideas of what a real audition is. If you have never been to an audition before, you may be confused into thinking that you will be given parts of the actual script to read all the time.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some casting directors may want you to read the SIDE from the actual script, others may just want to know your personality. It is also expected that you come with a prepared monologue. If a SIDE is made available ONLINE, then you are expected to study it, get the lines, build and get into the moment. </span></span></div>
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