Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Audition

I auditioned tonight at Imago Theater in Portland for upcoming shows in their 2009 season. They do a lot of nonverbal movement work, but also scripted pieces, which is what I auditioned for. We were supposed to prepare a 1-minute monologue or nonverbal audition. First, one of the directors had us doing a lot of movement stuff, while imagining alternatively that we were earth, air, water, or fire. That was OK--kind of fun. Then we had to do our monologues or other 1 by 1. We were forewarned that he would only let us go for 15 seconds or so, and indeed, no one finished his or her entire piece. We had to walk forward and say our name as well as the title of our piece. I called mine "Combing my hair with a monologue from Zoo Story." It went pretty well, and I got close to the end of it. I was wearing tan slacks with cuffs, a bright yellow shirt, and a necktie with frogs and rhinestones on it. And my shiny black wingtip shoes as well. We are supposed to hear by next week if we are called back. I think I will be if they have a part for me.

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