Lady vs. Anne

[rm]

I have two auditions tomorrow requiring a classical monologue. I usually use a Lady Anne thing from Richard III, because I think it suits me massively, and casting folks have said as much in a "that's really interesting, but I don't know what to do with you" way. I get good feedback on it, but it's never gotten me anywhere.

That said, I'm having an impulse to use something from the Macbeth stuff I did at NIDA. Something in the back of my head is telling me that it's the sort of thing people don't want to see (overdone? Macbeth superstitions?), but I also know I had serious professional coaching on it, and it's the thing that made people take me really seriously at NIDA, so part of me thinks I can just nail the thing to the wall if I do it. Of course, I also worry because my interpretation of Lady Macbeth is a bit outside of the typical bounds (good? bad?) mainly in that she's _young_ which is accurate to the period, but not to what we've done to the play in modern times.

Um... thoughts?

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should write about that more... it was sort of a revolution to me when the idea of her being young was suggested to me, and then it became a real obsession with my scene partner and I in developing the relationship with Macbeth, because he has to be young too... and the idea that the people are incredibly instinctually savvy, but also have _no damn idea what they're doing_ and it's really the way girls can egg each other on in certain types of dark hyseria (think Heavenly Creatures) just really consumed us.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

*nods* i was thinking along those lines... two people too young overreaching. it would be really fascinating.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

I don't know- I didn't think that Macbeth himself has to be young. I would be interested in seeing it played that way, though.

One thing I've always hated about that play is how Macbeth comes off as a victim, when really he's quite evil, but the fearful kind rather than the bold kind.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Mabeth doesn't have to be young, no, but he's a vital vital man in a period where 40 was approaching old age. He's probably not older than 30, and you could justifiably play him as 20. The Lady could even really be 16, regardless of his age, although when we did it we had him as 24 - 26 and her as 20 - 23.