I chose prospera's monologue for my Tempest audition. I chose this because I wanted to explore the adapted character for this performance and felt that I could challenge myself using strong vocals and movement to suit the theatre in which we will be performing. Prospera is originally a male part (Prospero), and our performance will be adapted to suit a modern day society and show a strong female lead as oppose to male, this is another reason as to why I wanted to sound strong in my voice. I knew prior to the audition that we will be performing at Brighton Open Air Theatre, and BOAT is a large outdoor space, therefore sound doesn't travel easily and that was another thing I took into consideration in this audition. I tried to lower my voice to sound stronger as well, because naturally my voice is a high pitch and this makes it difficult to project in large spaces, so I tried to use my diaphragm to allow my voice to travel as if I was in BOAT.
I felt that the first time I did my monologue, my movement was minimal because I was focusing on my lines, and I was asked to perform it again and add more movement, as if there were people in a still image position whilst I walked around the stage, and I tried to exaggerate looking around and trying to communicate with these people using imagination to try and make it clear to a large audience.
Overall, I think that my audition went well because I was able to adapt to what I was asked to do, as a professional actor would. I also think that I was able to develop my characterisation throughout the audition to suit the site specific performance, allowing my voice to travel and still have dynamics in my lines. To improve I would like to adapt my movement and try to exaggerate the way my character will walk and talk to suit the theatre where the performance will take place.
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