I feel that Rosaline's character in 'After Juliet' is still quite young but not my actual age of 17. I feel like she comes across as a jealous girl at the age of her early twenties and maybe at a push late teens. I didn't go out of my way and choose this piece I was actually given it to me at random by Olga. I stuck with it for a very long time and never thought about cutting it as it is a very long monologue but I feel like I drifted from it for a long time. I actually forgot I had it and remembered when I was really struggling to find a classical monologue to stick too. I feel that I suit the character of Rosaline, this is because everyone knows what rejection feels like and what it feels like to be replaced or to lose someone or to be incredibly jealous of someone. I feel I can relate that I just mentioned everyone has felt it at some point. It was difficult in the way I had to pretend I was standing over Juliet's grave but I feel like Rosaline never felt brave enough to tell Juliet too her face because she was too scared too. Rosaline does say during the monologue "Later still you stole my love, and didn't know you'd done it" proving that maybe she felt silly to confront Juliet while she was still alive.
Other speeches I dismissed included 'Emilia' from Shakespeare's 'Othello', I tried to stick to it but at the time I never knew about the play and the version I watched of it was not including the monologue and for some reason I just really didn't understand the piece. I didn't know how to act because I was not really sure what Emilia was talking about. I also wasn't really sure on the character.
2. Write a synopsis of the play from which your speech comes from.
The play centers on Rosaline, Juliet's cousin and Romeo's ex-flame. Ironically, Rosaline had been in love with Romeo, but was playing hard to get. Tortured by the loss of her love, Rosaline has become a sullen, venomous woman. She actively seeks to be elected the 'Princess of Cats' and run the Capulet family.
Meanwhile, the Capulets and Montagues have obeyed Prince Escalus and called a truce. The treaty quickly descends into a farce as both sides continue to rage against each other. Amid the turmoil more doomed love springs- between Benvolio Montague and Rosaline. Benvolio is warned by Valentine (Mercutio's twin brother) to stay away from her if he knows what's right.
The climax of the play comes during an election to determine whether or not Rosaline or Petruchio (Tybalt's brother) will succeed Tybalt as Prince or Princess of Cats. The election fails to have any results and the fate of the truce is left open ended
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 prepared by every night and any time I could I would learn my lines. I also read the plays and watched the play of one of my monologues and read the others, I took as much time as I could to research anything I could to help me with information about the plays. I interpreted the speech by not changing my voice to sound like a 'classical' actress because I still felt like I could do it with my own voice. Even though it was classical I was not being too over the top with my voice or my gestures and all that, I felt like that was not needed.
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 paper if possible.
With 'After Juliet' I showed the fact that I was standing over Juliet's grave and sitting by it/on it instead of just facing forwards to Olga and Ella. I say in the monologue 'Press your ear against the Earth so that I know your listening', and then I lowered more as I say my last goodbye as it is not very nice. I knew the words so I felt confident with that but I showed emotion with what I was talking to Juliet about, I felt like I knew exactly what I was going to say to Juliet in that character. I felt Rosaline's play because I always wondered what happened with Rosaline in 'Romeo and Juliet' because Romeo loves her at first and you never seem to know about her but then in this play you find she is actually quite angry/upset about it all. I think the way I demonstrated the monologue in an effective way because I showed them that I was at a grave and not just talking forwards.
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