MeyerBros

i don’t like auditions in the first place. scenes are bad enough. no one can really perform with the script in their hand, and how am i supposed to judge who can get beyond their audtion habbits in the rehearsal process and who can’t?

i would love to just do composition work - semi-scripted, self-created unique mini-scenes with as much or more physical as verbal focus. i didn’t have anything planned today, and nothing came to me on the spot, so we read scenes.

monologues are worse. i don’t even see you interact with another person. and some people just suck at preparing their own material. you can never tell - even though you know within the first ten seconds whether the audition is any good, you don’t know til six weeks later wheather the actor is any good.

so i wrote a monologue. an audition monologue. not particularly better than anyone else’s, but i did enjoy writing it. read on for the full text:
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