Juror 11 speaks out (X-posted on Myspace)
Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to be in a play. Yes, I said that. I auditioned on Wednesday night and found out this morning that I'm going to be playing Juror 11 in a mixed-gender adaptation of Twelve Angry Men; Twelve Angry Jurors, in our case.
So how did this happen? I'll tell you: sometime on Monday I received a flyer from these two girls promoting an upcoming audition for the play. I pondered it for a bit, looked at the times for the audition, and decided that I might want to try out. Actors only had to show up and cold read sides from the script for 15 minutes each and we'd be cast from that point on. On Wednesday morning during a break in English, I ran down to the Old Little Theatre and signed up for 7:15 that night. I went back later that afternoon and looked at the character descriptions and picked up a side. Nevertheless, I came into the reading basically cold. The audition went well though; I read the parts of four different jurors. Toward the end of my time, the director (she and her producer were the two girls who gave me the flyers to begin with) asked me if I was good at accents. I told her that they were actually one of my specialties and she asked if I could try an Eastern European accent. Though it wasn't solid (nor did it have to be) it was still good enough to impress her. I am now playing Juror 11, an immigrant from an unknown Soviet satellite (But I'm going to assert that I am from Croatia). Needless to say, I am excited out of my mind. My first audition at college and I nailed it. Granted, it is a student-directed production, but it is nearly impossible for freshman (or anyone, really) to break into the bigger productions here; unless you sell your soul or something. So I'm very happy and excited at this new prospect. I can still call myself a drama dork.
For those of you who would like to see the play, it will be performed on November 17, 18, and 19. I don't yet know that times and where we will be performing, but I will keep you posted. Please come if you can.
I miss all of you and I wish you much happiness. Life can be so beautiful here that it makes me overly sentimental. Today I saw a hummingbird lingering by some lilies and it literally flew past my face. It was beautiful. So much here makes me want to kiss life, as my drama teacher would say. You haven't lived until you've seen the way the sunset hits the water of our lagoon, or seen the egrets glide across its waters. It's all so terribly beautiful.
So how did this happen? I'll tell you: sometime on Monday I received a flyer from these two girls promoting an upcoming audition for the play. I pondered it for a bit, looked at the times for the audition, and decided that I might want to try out. Actors only had to show up and cold read sides from the script for 15 minutes each and we'd be cast from that point on. On Wednesday morning during a break in English, I ran down to the Old Little Theatre and signed up for 7:15 that night. I went back later that afternoon and looked at the character descriptions and picked up a side. Nevertheless, I came into the reading basically cold. The audition went well though; I read the parts of four different jurors. Toward the end of my time, the director (she and her producer were the two girls who gave me the flyers to begin with) asked me if I was good at accents. I told her that they were actually one of my specialties and she asked if I could try an Eastern European accent. Though it wasn't solid (nor did it have to be) it was still good enough to impress her. I am now playing Juror 11, an immigrant from an unknown Soviet satellite (But I'm going to assert that I am from Croatia). Needless to say, I am excited out of my mind. My first audition at college and I nailed it. Granted, it is a student-directed production, but it is nearly impossible for freshman (or anyone, really) to break into the bigger productions here; unless you sell your soul or something. So I'm very happy and excited at this new prospect. I can still call myself a drama dork.
For those of you who would like to see the play, it will be performed on November 17, 18, and 19. I don't yet know that times and where we will be performing, but I will keep you posted. Please come if you can.
I miss all of you and I wish you much happiness. Life can be so beautiful here that it makes me overly sentimental. Today I saw a hummingbird lingering by some lilies and it literally flew past my face. It was beautiful. So much here makes me want to kiss life, as my drama teacher would say. You haven't lived until you've seen the way the sunset hits the water of our lagoon, or seen the egrets glide across its waters. It's all so terribly beautiful.