1. Analyse the suitability of chosen audition material for audition context. Give an account that shows how you chose your audition material. In this case your "Five finger exercise" speech. You should relate your choices to your own vocal and physical abilities. Give details of the speeches that you dismissed and reasons why you dismissed them.
Pamela's character is a fourteen year old girl who is being taught by her tutor 'Walter' who is now living with them. So even though I am 17, Pamela's character is only three years younger than me. I remember what it was like when I was fourteen so I feel like it was easiest to relate too her out of all three of my monologues. I found the script at college and found the monologue first when she is telling Stanley about the dream her brother Clive always has about Stanley, then Olga told me I would need to read the play because when I read it out in class she said I needed to know the story and work out a way to deliver it because I was clueless on that at first. I feel like Pamela was describing the dream using arm and hand gestures a lot so I decided to place that into the speech as much as possible.
Other speeches I dismissed was 'Valerie from The Weir' which is an Irish woman called Valerie who tells two men at a pub about a ghostly experience she had with her daughters passing. I did really like this one because I felt it was really strong and would be a challenge for me but Olga mentioned it may not be the best pick for me as she is in her thirties but could still work if I really cannot find anything else. I dismissed it because I found Pamela's one which is younger than Valerie's and Pamela didn't have an accent where as Valerie was meant to have an Irish accent which I cannot do.
I also dismissed 'Paulina' which was one that Olga gave to me to try out, I hadn't read the play so quite frankly the monologue made no sense to me anyway but also I felt a little uncomfortable because she starts talking a little personal about things so it made me feel a little uncomfortable so this is why I decided to dismiss it.
2. Write a synopsis of the play from which your speech comes from.
http://www.enotes.com/topics/five-finger-exercise / this is a link which has the full synopsis of the play.
3. How did you prepare for your audition? What did you do to interpret the speech and respond to the style of the audition text?
I constantly went through it in my spare time to learn it, I read the entire play. I developed the character in my own way but with some help from what I gained off Pamela's character after I had read the play. I interpreted the speech by telling the story of the dream in the monologue in the way I would have told someone when I was fourteen years old so I could get into Pamela's character more and be her instead of myself.
4. How do you feel that you have demonstrated effective and confident vocal and physical technique in an audition situation? Give examples, in reference to your text if possible.
I had a clear voice and was sure of what I was saying and I really think I put an image in Olga's and Ella's heads for when I was describing the dream to them. I felt like I emphasized the words well and I really went for it. Originally I wanted to sit down because she is sitting down in the play so I tried something different by standing up. When she describes that Stanley is walking down the garden which is covered in snow and she says 'crunch...crunch...crunch', before, Olga told me that she couldn't hear the snow and that she could hear leaves so I really emphasized it more this time and felt like I made it come across more that it was snow and not leaves.
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