To Be or Not To Be...
For my audition in Prescott, I need to bring in 16 to 20 lines of Shakespearian text. The problem is I haven't worked on Shakespearian text since my class with TErry Tweed and the masters workshop I took with Marti Maraden. So right now I'm in a bit of a rut as to what to do. The play is a comedy, so I should probably stay in that genre. Unfortunately, I had one good comedic monologue but it really feels overdone at this point. If anyone has any suggestions, please send them my way.
posted by Nancy Kenny at
10:57 PM
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Here's the one I use for such auditions... it's a lovely I love myself/I hate myself monologue.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 scene 2 (Julia)
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words;
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
And kill the bees that yield it with your stings.
I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
Look, here is writ ‘Kind Julia’ – unkind Julia,
As in revenge of thy ingratitude
I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
And here is writ ‘Love-wounded Proteus’.
Poor wounded name, my bosom as a bed
Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly healed;
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
But twice or thrice was ‘Proteus’ written down.
Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away
Till I have found each letter in the letter
Except mine own name. That, some whirlwind bear
Unto a ragged, fearful, hanging rock
And throw it thence into the raging sea.
Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ:
‘Poor forlorn Proteus’, ‘passionnate Proteus’,
‘To the sweet Julia’ – that I’ll tear away.
And yet I will not, sith so prettily
He couples it to his complaining names.
Thus will I fold them, one upon another.
Now kiss, embrace, conted, do what you will.
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