roosevelt high school drama
AUDITIONS
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DRAMA 6/7 – 2011 - 2012
1. Sign your name and your 2nd period class on the audition board (back hallway behind Black
Box).
2. These auditions for the advanced acting/production class, Drama 6/7, will be held in four
parts.
NOTE: *** PREREQUISITE – DRAMA II – YOU MUST HAVE TAKEN IT! YOU
ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE THE CLASS FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR IF YOU ARE
ACCEPTED INTO 6/7. BOTH SEMESTERS, 6TH PERIOD. PLEASE
NOTE:
ANY AND ALL WRITTEN WORK (OTHER THAN THE TEXT ANALYSIS ON
YOUR SCRIPTS) MUST BE TYPED.
PART ONE:
Read two one act plays, that if chosen, you would direct for Drama Fest.
Read and find one of your own choices, and choose one from the list below: (if you can’t find it, make a copy* of
the play from a current 6/7 student).
Inside Al*
Duck Pond*
The Lottery
Izzy Icarus Fell off the World*
PART TWO: Written - Do this for both plays – one for your own choice, one
from the suggested list!.
1. The Play
PLOT: What happens? (If the action is complicated, write down the events in each scene.)
Do you understand what happens and why?
Do you like what happens?
WORLD OF THE PLAY
When does it take place?
Where does it take place?
Is it fact or fiction?
Is it set in a “real” world or a fantasy world?
THEME OF THE PLAY
What is the play about? (This is different from what happens.)
What mood is evoked?
What is your initial emotional response to the play?
CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY
How many characters?
Which character did you like best – why?
Which character did you like least – why?
Which character would you like to play – why?
SCRIPT
Which story did you like better – why?
HAVE A XEROXED COPY OF YOUR TWO CHOICES OF SCRIPTS IN YOUR BINDER**.
PART THREE: Monologue(s) - written
Develop an audition section consisting of a total of at least five monologues. These monologues should be
contrasting if performed as a pair. All monologues must come from a full published play. You may choose three of
your own. You must choose at least two from the list below:
Male
Man and Superman
The Doctor’s Dilema
Major Barbara
The Glass Menagerie (Tom)
Lost in Yonkers (Jay)
Female
Major Barbara
Saint Joan
Pygmalion
The Little Foxes (Alexandra)
Fantasticks (Don’t Let Me Be Normal)
You must read the play from which you choose your monologue. You must know the moment before.
Have in your notebook** a Xeroxed copy of each monologue, plus a second copy with the following
textwork on it.:
1) A copy of the monologue showing all your text work. Using [brackets]Delineate beginnings,
middles and ends. Mark (circle) where your objectives change, in the margin state the objective(s).
Mark (with an *)tactic changes, list tactics in margin. Mark (with double //) your beats (//beat//)
your emotional exploration /changes.
2) Quoting or referencing the text of the play, using a separate page or pages, answer the following
questions:
The Character
a) Who am I? Who is in the scene with me? (Ages, professions, persuasions.)
b) Where are we? What surrounds us? What is our environment? (Geographically,
physically, emotionally)
c) What time is it? (Year, season, day, hour, minute)
d) What are my circumstances in the play? What are the events at hand? How am I and the
other characters inextricably tied to these events?
e) What are the relationships in the scene? (Familial, social, etc.)
f) What is my overall need in the scene? What is my overall need in the speech? What are
my moment to moment needs in the scene?
g) What obstacles are in my way?* Who and/or what is in my way?
h) What do I do in the scene to get what I need? What tactics do I use?
i) What do I say about myself in the scene? What might other characters in the scene say
about me? (What do I think they are thinking?) What do they actually say (in their own
words) about me?
j) What kind of logic do I use? What is my outlook on life? What is the lens that colors my
thoughts?
k) What is my fatal flaw (or flaws)?
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Human beings rarely think they are in their own way. Only in hindsight or in reflection does one
say they are their own worst enemy, but in action, in executing one’s tactics, it is rarely, rarely a
thought that the obstacle is yourself. So keep focused on that which is in front of you as your
obstacle or obstacles. ‘They’ or ‘that person’ or an inanimate object like an ocean or a log, or a
natural condition are better obstacles because they are external forces that need persuasion,
moving, alteration or change.
PART FOUR: Monologue(s) –acting
You may choose one of the monologue to perform, I will choose the other one when you come to your audition.
DUE DATES
Monologue auditions will be scheduled and seen the week of May 9th. You will receive an
audition appointment. Auditions will be private.
The written part of this audition process, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, must be in some sort
of three ring binder
SUMMING IT UP....
 You will be assigned a monologue audition time starting May 9th.
 You must turn in, in notebook form: written portion of Part One (script(s), Part Two,
and Part Three.
All written work is due MAY 9th . I will not accept any reports after 1:30 p.m. and zero
seconds. You will not be considered for a place in Drama 6/7, if your notebooks are turned in
even one second late. RESULTS for the 2010-2011 class will be posted on June 2nd.
Best of luck to you, V.K.
APPLICATION – bring with you to your assigned directing time slot.
NAME____________________________________ Current grade level__________
CONTACT: home phone_____________________ Cell______________________
Email ADDRESS_____________________________________________________
In the following space, create a collage using texture, color, objects (NO FACES) that represents
what you will bring to the Drama 6/7 class.
USE ONE WORD ONLY TO FILL IN THE BLANK
I will bring _________________________ to the 6/7 class.
This is the _______________ time that I have auditioned for Drama 6/7. ***If you have
auditioned in the past for 6/7 talk to me before you begin your notebook!!