Tales from a Dusty Theatre Corridor

Again we find ourselves in the Dusty and almost prison like hallway leading to the most amazing room in our School; The Little Theatre ![say it with emphasis!]

No, we are not wasting away our study periods or home rooms, And also no we aren't in a class. No it was the hellish process we call "Merged Auditions".

The only reason it was merged, was because cowardly Dr. Eisley cancels school if a snowflake falls in Pittsburgh. The Man cancels school on Rumor, He is snow's bitch i tell yah.

Anyway back to auditions. Many of you know that i only started acting this past year, it was an accident that i showed up after school at the right time. I have to say, half the people i am friends with today, i would not have been friends with if i didn't make that mistake. It was the most wonderful oops i ever made.

This year it was different, I was not trying out for an ensemble role, but sucking it in and mustering some courage to try out for one of the most important characters in the play. Oh wait! let me tell you what we are doing first [derp Leila]. Our play this year is William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream, and I was trying out for dear Hermia.
I fell in love immediately with the role of Hermia, although she is a hot tempered bitch of sorts, she is a very fun character to play.

Ok let me tell you of how the audition went. I'm walking through the halls going over lines with my friend Casey [who also tried out for Hermia], and we're having fun. We walk back into the Theatre hallway, walk into the guidence office and hang there. Scattered about the office are my other friends going through their lines or just chatting about random nonsense of the day. My friend Sarah, who's trying out for Helena [another main role] comes over and we start going over lines together. Well then all of a sudden our stage manager, Caevaun, comes out and tells us we are next; i was so relieved that i was auditioning with Sarah, she was the only one to that point that i had a successful read through with. We get in there and we read through the first parts of the "Bitch Fight Scene" [or so we call it]. We are doing great, it is so much fun acting with Sarah she's such a wonderful actress. The scene where Hermia grows so infuriated with Helena that she threatens to basically "claw her eyes out" was so funny, because she is increasingly getting angrier as Helena makes more short comments, what was so comical about this is my friend Sarah is about 3 inches shorter than me [the comedy in the room was high].

After our second read through [this time roles were reversed i was Helena, Sar was Hermia] we walked out..and talked with everyone who was nervously awaiting their turn to audition. I stayed after for about 2 1/2 hours because i had to wait for my "ride" chelsea to audition [she was the last].

Overall it was an amazing time, and i'll be glad with any call back i get.

Paxa,

Wicks x