Double - We Will Rock You

This is the monologue for the character of Pop in We Will Rock You. It's the first bit of dialogue in the play and is fairly interesting an engaging. Personally I feel that I would like to do this monologue as it seems prettyt taught forward and easy to learn, also I like the musical and have a strong knowledge on what happens after this monologue. However one thing I am worried about if I do choose this for an audition piece, is the fact that I don't know how I would do the voice of Pop as he's a bit like a hippie and I'm unsure of my ability to do that. 

Double - The Forigner

Don't tell me you've never seen a knife. Knife. That's a knife. Use it to cut things. Cut things. (Mimes) Like - ham. If we had some ham. Or bacon, or sump'm. I can't believe you don't -. (Looks around for help. There is none.) Or butter. If we had some butter, you could use it to spread it on - . You don't really need it. No, you don't need it. (Demonstrating.) Put it down.
Bad Uh - . (Charlie now holds a spoon.) Yeah, now that's your spoon. Use that to put sugar in your coffee, if you had some sugar, here. And you had some coffee - shoot. I don't really know why we got all these things. But your fork - man, I wish somebody else'd help you with this, 'cause I don't know anything, but - I think that your fork - your fork'd be the main thing you'd use. 'Cause you got your eggs, and you got your grits. Y'see? Eat 'em with a fork, just like we been doin'. Can - you - say - 'fork'? 'Faw-werk'? 'Faw-werk.' Two parts. 'Faw-werk.' . . . Right. Put 'em together. 'Faw-werk' . . .Good! That was great!'

I think that this monologue would be good for me as it is suppose to be a comedy and with the right accent and movement, I believe that I could pull it off. However, I don't actually know this play and I'm not too clear on what's happened so far.  

Double - Dna

This is Richards monologue from the play 'Dna'. Richard has gone through a lot of hastle to try and make sure that the 'mysterious death' of their friend Adam is kept as low as possible as the group of friends are responsible for his death. Richard is threatened by John Tate towards the beginning of the play and shortly after is told to look after Brian who is emotionally unstable and is mental. Richard then talks to his friend Phil who is haunted by the events that have taken place and in result he just sits there in the woods looking in one direction all day. I think that this would be a good monologue for me to do as it's pretty straight forward and also it can be told in many different ways.

Double - A mid summer night's dream

Thou speak’st aright.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

I jest to Oberon and make him smile

When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

And sometime lurk I in a gossip’s bowl

In very likeness of a roasted crab,

And when she drinks, against her lips I bob

And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.

The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale

Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me.

Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,

And “Tailor!” cries, and falls into a cough,

And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,

And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear

A merrier hour was never wasted there.

But, room, fairy! Here comes Oberon.

This is the monologue from Shakespeare's "A mid summer night's dream". In this part, Puck, Oberon's assistant is telling his rival fairies about how his friendship with his King and how he jokes about. Personally I believe that this monologue isn't really for me as I find it hard to read and act Shakespeare, however for universities it would be good to have as it shows a change in time eras of performing arts.  

Double - Blood Brothers Monologue

"I wish I was our Sammy
Our Sammy's nearly ten.
He's got two worms and a catapult
An' he's built a underground den.
But I'm not allowed to go in there,
I have to stay near the gate,
'Cos me Mam says I'm only seven,
But I'm not, I'm nearly eight!

I sometimes hate our Sammy,
He robbed me toy car y' know,
Now the wheels are missin' an' the top's broke off,
An' the bleedin' thing won' go.
An' he said when he took it, it was just like that,
But it wasn't, it went dead straight,
But y' can't say nott'n when they think y' seven
An' y' not, y' nearly eight.

I wish I was our Sammy,
Y' wanna see him spit,
Straight in y' eye from twenty yards
An' every time a hit.
He's allowed to play with matches,
And he goes to bed dead late,
And I have to go at seven,
Even though I'm nearly eight.

Y' know our Sammy,
He draws nudey women,
Without arms, or legs, or even heads
In the baths, when he goes swimmin'.
But I'm not allowed to go to the baths,
Me Mam says I have to wait,
'Cos I might get drowned, cos I'm only seven,
But I'm not, I'm nearly eight.

Y' know our Sammy,
Y' know what he sometimes does?
He wees straight through the letter box
Of the house next door to us.
I tried to do it one night,
But I had to stand on a crate,
'Cos I couldn't reach the letter box
But I will by the time I'm eight."

This is the monologue for when we first meet the character of Mickey in the musical Blood Brothers. So far in the musical we have seen that the two twins have been separated from ther birth mother without knowing. We see Mickey (a young boy played by a man) sitting center stage, stretching his jumper, telling the audince about things he gets up to when he's bored etc. Then the monologue begins. Personally I think that this monologue is a great one to perform for soemeone like myself as you can be really mellow dramatic with it and you can make the audience laugh as it's an middle aged man/ oldish man playing a child. As much fun this is to perform, the problem with it for me is the liverpudlian accent because I have a problem trying to do northern type of accents.

Double - University Research

UEA (University of East Anglia)

We operate an initial shortlisting process for this course on the basis of the information an applicant provides on their UCAS form. Candidates who are shortlisted will be invited to interview and audition and offers are only made after a successful interview and audition. These take place on Visit Days and include an opportunity to look around the campus, view accommodation, meet current students, talk to staff members and find out more about the course. The interview and audition itself will be with a member of our Drama team. Candidates are asked to perform a short monologue from a selection provided and there is also a discussion which generally covers topics such as your current studies, reasons for choosing the course and your personal interests and extra-curricular activities.

Portsmouth

For Portsmouth university, you will be invited for an interview and then providing what you want to do (musical theater or contemporary), you will be invited in for an audition (singing or monologue). For the interview process, they prefer you to have grades however if you were unable to do performing arts at a collage or sixthform, then you can still have a chance of getting in (providing that you have a background and experience in theatre). With the 3 years, in every year, the course is split into theory and practical.There is 3 of each.

Opinion
I personally believe that UEA is a better option due to the fact that you are able to discus options and opinions and also given guidance by students that were once in the same place as you.

Double - jatb part 4

Once Jack reaches the top of the bean stalk, he can see a massive castle in the distance. He's unsure on how to get there so he asks a stranger who is waiting for a sky bus. When Jack asks on how to get to the castle, the stranger warns him about how dangerous the castle is because it has a big giant. The stranger then asks Jack if he is new there. When Jack says yes the stranger cheers and call on other residents on the sky and they sing and dance him a song based on the sky.

The song is from the first Shrek film and we tried to make that but rather funny and hope that younger children would get the refrance. When rehearsing and performing the song, I tried to be melodramatic as I could as it needs to be as over the top as it can because the audience can feel this strong energy coming from the song and dance and therefore finding it a bit funny.

Double - jatb part 3

At the end of the market scene, Jack trades the beans for his cow, his best friend. When he gets in he is told off by his mother and is forced to clean up and go to bed, as he slept the beanstalk began to grow. When he woke up it was ready for him to climb. Before Jack climbs it, we get the audience to say 'climb that stalk' as a type of chant. This is a good use of interaction with the audience as it gets them engaged with the story and also makes them feel involved with Jack. 

Double - Jatb park 2

For when Jack had to take his best friend (the cow) into the market, I was thinking of how people would approach you in busy market places and also what kind of objects that they sell. As this is a fairy tale, I thought that whatever my object may be, it should be magical, so it would seem normal. The market that I thought of in which I thought would be a good idea to use as a type of stimuli is the market place in Camden, located in London. I thought of it as its a very busy area and also there is a huge divers culture there. Many different objects and valuables are bought or sold there in a day. It was ther perfect location to try and recreate.

Just after the market place scene, the bean man and Jack exchange some dialogue which results in Jack taking the magical beans (which he doesn't think are real once he gets home). However once Jack decides to take the beans, we came up with a dance to show the excitement of Jack, all because of his magical beans.

Double - Jack and the Beanstalk (Jatb) part 1

Our last and final story is Jack and the Beanstalk. For this story I am the narrator and also I am random characters that appear in and out of the story. When narrating this story in my head I had a Morgan Freeman type of narrating style which I think tried to add American accents and a deep voice to. Eventually as a group we decided that it would be easier and more replicant to narrate in an American accent. It was decide as the we wanted the dialogue to be as clear as possible for the young children. 

For the introduction we set the scene by having people doing farming activities. For example Freya's character was picking fruit from trees and handing it to people. As originally the narration was going to be pre recorded, I thought of a character that I could have played whilst the narration was going on. I thought of a 50 year old man who was plowing his potato field on a hot and sweaty day. By doing a repeating motion and pulling the right facial expressions, I believe that the audience would have understood who the character was. 

Double - Childrens Theatre resech

Is one of the very few drama companies that produce and perform for children. Polka Theatre was originally opened in 1979 (36 years ago). It has as many as 90,000 child audiences that come to see the performances per year, in many cases introducing many children to the world of theatre.

“Polka strives to stir the emotions, spark the imagination and, most of all, entertain.”.

- http://www.polkatheatre.com/editorial/about-us (Polka Theatre’s website)

The theatre company seem very dedicated and very determined to interest young children so that hopefully one day those children can be performing on a stage. It’s rather interesting to see how many children go to the theatre in a year and also how many children can be inspired by the theatre that they see at Polka.

In the theatre there are two performing spaces, the main theatre and also the adventure theatre. The Adventure theatre is there so that younger children (3– 6) have a pleasant introduction to theatre and also that they feel comfy watching the performers.

“Our mission is to spark the imagination and fuel a sense of discovery in children from every background. We do this through thrilling world-class theatre and a creative programme of learning, in a welcoming and stimulating environment.”

This goes to show that Polka have such a huge determination and a huge goal to interest the younger generations and I think that it’s good to see that there are companies that exist today that allow children to be interested at such young ages. Personally I think this because I didn’t go to anything like this when I was younger and I believe that the more successful the company is then the more they are allowing younger people to become intrigued with the industry.