Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Aug 10, 2004 4:03:38 GMT -5
TUE. AUG. 10/2004/04:10 E.S.T.
Last week, I had been asked by GARY DAVIDSON which role in MacBETH™ I would want to essay if I had the choice, & I told him.
Yesternight, circa 21:30 E.S.T., I was contacted by a Director by whom I had been auditioned 9 years ago for a production of MacBETH™.
He had been attempting to locate me for 3 days, after having auditioned 4 other blokes for the roles of ROSS & WITCH in a remount of MacBETH™ that will be rehearsing & touring in 2005.
Apparently, he is seeking specifically to cast these roles “with a black actor” (although he did not explain why), & had remembered me from my audition @ that time as being someone whom he recognised as having a strong grasp of the works of MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, as well as a passion for this particular play, which is my favourite.
However, he had chosen to cast someone else because he could not make me fit into the cast he had already assembled, something about “a question of balance”, which is something I have been told before whenever I have been auditioned for Shakespearean productions, since my own voice & stage presence are often perceived to “overpower” those of the lead actor around whom a given production is being built.
Currently, he told me that he had found these 4 actors’ “energies” to be wrong for the project, which I interpreted to mean that they had been unsettled by the audition process, 1 I had found to be the most unorthodox I had ever experienced in connection with any play that is so deeply rooted in the written word.
Further discussion implied that offers had been made to each of these 4 blokes, but that they had failed to respond, which led him to search 3 days to find me, after numerous people had invoked my name in connection with the works of MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
This audition shall mark the 3rd I have ever had with this particular Director for this particular company, but it shall also be the first for which I have been summoned personally by the Director himself, rather than my having had to request an audition after learning of his plans to mount a show.
Last week, I had been asked by GARY DAVIDSON which role in MacBETH™ I would want to essay if I had the choice, & I told him.
Yesternight, circa 21:30 E.S.T., I was contacted by a Director by whom I had been auditioned 9 years ago for a production of MacBETH™.
He had been attempting to locate me for 3 days, after having auditioned 4 other blokes for the roles of ROSS & WITCH in a remount of MacBETH™ that will be rehearsing & touring in 2005.
Apparently, he is seeking specifically to cast these roles “with a black actor” (although he did not explain why), & had remembered me from my audition @ that time as being someone whom he recognised as having a strong grasp of the works of MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, as well as a passion for this particular play, which is my favourite.
However, he had chosen to cast someone else because he could not make me fit into the cast he had already assembled, something about “a question of balance”, which is something I have been told before whenever I have been auditioned for Shakespearean productions, since my own voice & stage presence are often perceived to “overpower” those of the lead actor around whom a given production is being built.
Currently, he told me that he had found these 4 actors’ “energies” to be wrong for the project, which I interpreted to mean that they had been unsettled by the audition process, 1 I had found to be the most unorthodox I had ever experienced in connection with any play that is so deeply rooted in the written word.
Further discussion implied that offers had been made to each of these 4 blokes, but that they had failed to respond, which led him to search 3 days to find me, after numerous people had invoked my name in connection with the works of MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
This audition shall mark the 3rd I have ever had with this particular Director for this particular company, but it shall also be the first for which I have been summoned personally by the Director himself, rather than my having had to request an audition after learning of his plans to mount a show.
