I am trying out for my school play and need a Shakespearian Monolouge. I want to do A Midsummer Nights Dream and play Hermia. The monolouge should be at LEAST 1 and a half minutes. I dont mind playing other characters, preferably female and i dont mind playing Puck. Cuss words are accepted. anything goes. Please help me!
2007-12-05 11:52:58 · 4 answers · asked by Spontanious ♥ 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Hermia's a terrific role, but she doesn't have much in the way of long speeches. You could use one of Helena's speeches as an audition piece. For example, look at her "How happy some o'er other some can be!" speech at the end of Act One, Scene One. Or if you want to audition with some Puck or Hermia material, look at Act Three, Scene Two. Puck's "My mistress with a monster is in love" speech might work for you. Or you could splice together a couple of Hermia's shorter speeches to make one longer one. Start with "Now I but chide, but I could use thee worse," go from there through "So should a murtherer look -- so dead, so grim," then jump to "Out, dog, out cur!" and go through the end of that speech.
Since you're trying out for a verse-speaking Shakespeare role, you should definitely audition with something Shakespearean. And whatever speech you decide to use, rehearse it at least a couple of times every day between now and the audition.
2007-12-05 12:18:17 · answer #1 · answered by classmate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what your question is.
The text of A Midsummer Night's Dream is literally everywhere on the web. Are you looking for a suggestion?
I am not sure that any of the monologues in that play are that long. Try the one when Titania falls in love with Bottom in the second act.
2007-12-05 12:12:08 · answer #2 · answered by vic91106 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way I'll get points for this, but here's an anecdote about "MSND" you might like.
I heard the famous English director Lindsay Anderson tell it years ago on BBC radio. He said that one of his first directorial efforts was "MSND", which was staged at his college -- Cambridge, as I recall.
At any rate, it was an outdoor production, and he elected to use a lake on the campus as a "sounding board" behind the "stage" area where the performance took place. He said that in setting things up, he noticed that every evening a fog would build up on the lake just as the sun was going down.
So, a brainstorm came to him. At the end of one act or scene, there are a couple of players on stage, who "exeunt". He went to the engineering department of the university, and with their help, constructed an underwater scaffolding on the floor of the lake, supporting a hidden catwalk of boards just at the level of the water's surface. At the end on one scene, when the actors left the stage, they'd join hands, but instead off walking off to the side, they would turn their backs to the audience, and walk off onto the water and disappear into the fog!
That was his plan, anyway. Well, on the day of the production, Anderson said, against all odds everything went exactly as planned. In came the fog, right on time, and as darkness fell, off Tatiana and Bottom (or whoever it was) went, apparently walking off onto the water into the mist!
Needless to say, he was very pleased with himself. Among the attendees were his father and mother. After the final curtain and applause, he went to find them and excitedly asked, "What did you think of the production?"
His mother smiled and replied, "I thought it was lovely. But you know, I never knew that lake was so shallow!"
2007-12-05 16:44:10 · answer #3 · answered by titou 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is. Thisby is a males part, but you'll have to dress up as a girl.
2016-05-28 08:56:28 · answer #4 · answered by holly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋