Monday, April 11, 2016

First Audition

I'm a Theatre Major, focusing on acting. I've already planned all my acting courses for the fall and spring semester, but prior to that I've never taken any acting classes. So I decided to auditions for two productions in my school despite having no experience or acting technique. Not surprisingly, I bombed both auditions, but I'm giving myself a gold star for trying.
The first audition is for the play, Picture of Dorian Gray. For this audition, I don't need to recite any monologue or bring any materials. I got to the audition place and filled out a form. In the form they asked for previous experience and so on and so forth. I glance over at another student's form and I saw that he filled out the whole entire chart under the experience category. At this point, I'm like "Oh crap..." I felt my confidence slowly slipping out of my grasp. After I filled out the form, I grabbed one of the three monologues that they've provided for us. I sat on the floor and start to quietly rehearse to myself. About 30 mins have pasted and they've started to call people in. The walls aren't sound proof so we can hear everyone's auditions. The first girl that went in was great. It was great. Remember the guy, who filled out the entire chart under experience, well he went immediately before me. Oh Lord... If the first girl is great, then he is phenomenal. He just nailed that British accent. He have that powerful voice. He really brought out the setting in the play. When he came out. He said "Oh I'm sorry. Did you guys hear everything?" His friends replied "Yeah, you are great" to which he responded "Yeah. I learn from someone to use my voice as a weapon". I repeat HE SAID "TO USE MY VOICE AS A WEAPON". I thought to myself: if you keeping talking with that arrogant attitude. I going to use my fists as a weapon. I am not going to lie. I do feel jealous and insecure at this point. But that doesn't make him any less of a bastard then he already is. During my actual auditions. I was really bad. I have no accent. My voice was weak and mundane. Worst of all, I stuttered. Terrible, Just terrible. I was so anxious and nervous that I forgot about everything. My mind was blank. Afterwards, I rushed out of the building and never turned around to look at the other auditionees. To damn embarrassed. Overall, I think it was a good experience. Now I know what type of people I am competing and up against. I have my work cut out for me...

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