Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Audition Monologues for UNI

This is a monologue I have chosen for my filmed audition for our lesson with Andy, it is from Othello and is by Desdemona. She is telling her father how much she loves Othello and how she wants to live with him and leave the family house.

That I did love the Moor to live with him,
My downright violence and storm of fortunes
May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord:
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honour and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support 
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

When I fell in love with Othello I made up my mind that I wanted to live with him. 
You can see how much I wanted to be with him by how violently I threw away my old life.
 I feel like I’m a part of him now, and that means I’m part of a soldier.
 I saw Othello’s true face when I saw his mind. 
I gave my whole life to him because of his honor and bravery. 
If I were left at home uselessly while he went off to war, then I’m separated from my husband in his natural element. 
I’d be miserable without him. Let me go with him.

This is a modern version of the monologue and it helps me to understand it better and be able to apply the right emotions to the monologue. She is expressing how much she loves Othello and how she cannot be without him, she is begging her father to let her go with him, but I feel she has already made up her mind about it anyway.
Desdemona :
A noble Venetian lady, daughter of Brabantio. She organizes her life intelligently and shows courage, love, and loyalty in following her husband into danger. She accompanies Othello to Cyprus on the campaign against the Turks but finds him becoming distant and making wild accusations against her. She firmly believes that he will see that she is true to him, but when she realizes he is about to kill her, she can only feel despair and grief. She dies declaring her love for him.

Another monologue I could use for University auditions is my current character, Viola's monologue to Olivia, and another monologue she has at the end of the play which is directed to Seb, her lost twin.
If nothing lets to make us happy both,
But this my masculine u'surp'd attire,
Do not embrace me, till each circumstance
Of play, time, fortune do cohere and jump
That I am VIOLA; which to confirm,
I'll bring you a captain in this town,
Where lie  my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help
I was preserv'd to serve this noble count,
All the occurrence of my fortune since,
Hath been between this lady and this lord.

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
and call upon my soul within this house,
Write loyal cantons of contemned love,
And sing them loud even in the dead of night,
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,
and make the babbling gossips of the air,
Cry out, OLIVIA, O you should not rest between the elements of air and earth
But you should pity me.


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