Need sum help with drama auditions..........?

Question

hey..........i have to give an audition for dramatics...........i dont know wat exactly i shud present b4 the judges...........please cn u help me out............like can u jus give character i cud enact

Answer 1

Well to start with try something new, just not the old dramas. If you have time then I would suggest pieces from dramas of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

If you want a comic soliloquey then try from Maid In The Mill any one of the Basil's solliloquies . You must of course learn it by-heart and present it :

A garden at the town-house of Count Beltran.

Antonio, Basil.

BASIL  

I am abashed of¹ you. What, make a lady

Woo you, and she a face so excellent,

Of an address so admirably lovely

It shows a goddess in her — at each sentence

Let pause to give you opportunity

Then shame with the dead silence of the hall

For her continual answer. Fie, you're not

Antonio, you are not Beltran's issue. Seek

Your kindred in the snowdrifts of the Alps

Or call a post your father.

ANTONIO

I deserve

Your censure, Basil. Yet were it done again,

I know I should again be dumb. My tongue

Teems in imagination but is barren

In actuality. When I am from her,

I woo her with the accent of a god,

My mind o'erflows with words as the wide Nile

With waters. Let her but appear and I

Am her poor mute. She may do her will with me

And O remember but her words. When she,

Ah she, my white divinity with that kindness

Celestial in the smiling of her eyes

And in her voice the world's great music, rose

Of blushing frankness, half woman and half angel,

Crowned me unwooed, lavished on me her heart

In her prodigious liberality,

Could I then speak? O to have language then

Had been the index to a shallow love.



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BASIL  

Away! You modest lovers are the blot

Of manhood, traitors to our sovereignty.

I'd have you banished, all of you, and kept

In desert islands, where no petticoat

Should enter, so the brood of you might perish.

ANTONIO

You speak against the very sense of love

Which lives by service.

  

BASIL

Flat treason! Was not man made

Woman's superior that he might control her,

In strength to exact obedience and in wisdom

To guide her will, in wit to keep her silent,

Three Herculean labours. O were women

Once loose, they would new-deluge earth with words,

Sapiently base creation on its apex,

Logic would be new-modelled, arithmetic

Grow drunk and reason despairing abdicate.

No thunderbolt could stop a woman's will

Once it is started.

ANTONIO

O you speak at ease,

Loved you, you would recant this without small

Torture to quicken you.

BASIL

I? I recant?

I wish, Antonio, I had known your case

Earlier. I would have taught you how to love.

ANTONIO

Come, will you woo a woman? Teach me at least

  

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By diagram, upon a blackboard.

BASIL

Well,

I will so, if it should hearten your weak spirits.

And now I thin-k of it, I am resolved

I'll publish a new Art of Love, shall be

The only Ovid memorable.

ANTONIO

On, on! Let's hear you.

BASIL

First, I would kiss her.

ANTONIO

What, without leave asked ?

BASIL

Leave? Ask a woman leave to kiss her! Why

What was she made for else ?

ANTONIO

If she is angry?

BASIL

So much the better. Then you by repetition

Convince her of your manly strength, which is

A great point gained at the outset and moreover

Your duty, comfortable to yourself.

Besides she likes it. On the same occasion

When she will scold, I'll silence her with wit.

Laughter breaks down impregnable battlements.

Let me but make her smile and there is conquest

Won by the triple strength, horse, foot, artillery,

Of eloquence, wit and muscle. Then but remains

Pacification, with or else without

  

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The Church's help, that's a mere form and makes

No difference to the principle.

ANTONIO

There should be

Inquisitions for such as you. What after ?

BASIL

Nothing unless you wish to assure the conquest,

Not plunder it merely like a Tamerlane.

I'll teach that also. 'Tis but making her

Realise her inferiority.

Unanswerably and o'erwhelmingly

Show her how fortunate she is to get you

And all her life too short for gratitude;

That you have robbed her merely for her good,

To civilize her or to train her up:

Punish each word that shows want of affection.

Plague her to death and make her thank you for it.

Accustom her to sing hosannas to you

When you beat her. All this is ordinary,

And every wise benevolent conqueror

Has learnt the trick of it. Then she'll love you for ever.

ANTONIO

You are a Pagan and would burn for this

If Love still kept his Holy Office.

BASIL

Am safe from him.

If You want a solliloquey, which is serious try the part of the Statesman or The writer from The Great Secret of the Mother.

You must thoroughly learn it, understand its meaning, read aloud , see tht your pronunciation comes out well otherwise practice with the back of a pencil in your mouth. Be sure of yourself. Do not get nervous , after all the world is not going to fall , if you fail. Stand straight, explain to the judges the part that you are going to do. give them a copy of your part to each one of them, by making a print out fromthe web-site. Above all try and get identified with the character and understand the meaning before the words come out of your mouth.

Good Luck !