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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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.