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06-07-2012, 03:31 AM
I am pleased to announce that Pendant Productions is starting up The Pendant Shakespeare, AKA the Wild Bill Variety show again, and the first play on the ticket is Macbeth!
Not gonna lie, people are kinda scared of Shakespeare, and that’s okay. But guys, Shakespeare is just another writer, and like other writers his words only lack actors to bring them to life.
The cool thing about Shakespeare, is that after people walk out of the theater, they might not be able to tell you the specifics, but they can tell you the story of it. And that’s because the actors did a good job making sure they knew what they were saying. The trick to making an audience understands Shakespeare, is to make sure the actors understand their lines.
If you’re going to be in Shakespeare, you have to read it and understand what you’re saying. [/FONT]It doesn’t matter how pretty you sound; if you don’t understand what you’re saying; the audience won’t either.
So, I’m looking for people with good audio quality, who can bring the text to life, and are willing to spend the time to understand what the text is saying to a point that they can relate it to the audience. It’s not an easy task, but I know many of you actors are up to the challenge. And I look forward to what you will achieve.
THE DIRECTIONS FOR ALL AUDITIONS:
1) Do not process your lines (and I will know if you do), just record them, select your best take, trim the rest, export and send them in
2) Record your lines in 44100hz, 16-bit MP3, stereo or mono doesn't matter, but it must be a mp3 file.
3) Each audition line need to be in a separate file, and only your best take of that line.
4) Name your files like so: Line###_CHARACTERNAME_YOURCREDITNAME. So, if I auditioned for Lady Macbeth, my audition files would read like this: Line001_LadyMacbeth_ColinKelly and Line002_LadyMacbeth_ColinKelly respectively.
5) Make sure somewhere in the e-mail you put the name to credit you with.
6) Put all auditions in one .zip file, and send it to colin@pendantaudio.com
This audition is open to everyone, no prior experience with Pendant required, and ALL voice types are accepted; in fact, I'm delighted to see your takes on these classic characters. This is a monthly commitment, for a period of 5 months for the 5 acts of Macbeth. Each act will come out monthly at www.pendantaudio.com/shakespeare.php
ACT ONE AUDITIONS:
While there are 8 roles here, 4 more will be cast out of the auditions recieved, so PLEASE AUDITION.
The deadline for auditioning is 11:59pm PST on June 20th, 2012.
Looking forward to a clogged inbox! And more to follow in the following acts!
-Colin
Female Roles:
The Three Witches:
I’m open to interpretations, they don’t have to be old, fogey crones; they can be sweet, youthful ladies; they can even be a young girl, a middle aged woman, and a crone like the Fates. Surprise me.
Line 1: (delightedly sinister)
A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:-- 'Give me,' quoth I: 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: but in a sieve I'll thither sail, and, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Line 2: (dancing in a circle as they cast their spell)
The weird sisters, hand in hand, posters of the sea and land, thus do go about, about: thrice to thine and thrice to mine and thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! the charm's wound up.
Lady Macbeth:
Incredibly ambitious for her station with no moral compass. She is sociopath, but downplay that. Her general attitude is that of apathy, with a constant drive to get her husband to move above his station. His ambition is fueled by hers.
Line 1: (kindly and respectfully)
All our service in every point twice done and then done double were poor and single business to contend against those honours deep and broad wherewith your majesty loads our house: for those of old, and the late dignities heap'd up to them, we rest your hermits.
Line 2: (extremely pleased with herself)
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; what hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it: the doors are open; and the surfeited grooms do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, that death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
Banquo:
Fierce and loyal, and too clever for her own good. Banquo is a warrior in her own right, who’s earned her place among the ranks of the thanes, and Macbeth’s right hand. She trusts Macbeth completely, and while she may have her doubts, she’ll follow his lead.
Line 1: (inquisitive)
What are these so wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, and yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught that man may question? You seem to understand me, by each at once her chappy finger laying upon her skinny lips: you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.
Line 2: (beginning to doubt, but hope starts to form in her words)
Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity, but that myself should be the root and mother of many kings. If there come truth from them-- as upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine-- why, by the verities on thee made good, may they not be my oracles as well, and set me up in hope? But hush! no more.
Male roles:
Macbeth:
A man of honor and ambition, Macbeth is an incredibly complicated character, and we need to see a progression when a man of greatness separates remorse from power, slipping slowly into madness along the way.
Line 1: (commanding)
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: by Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis; but how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives, a prosperous gentleman; and to be king stands not within the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence? or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
Line 2: (In a funk, half-scared of himself)
Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Line 3: (barely containing his rage)
Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits: the flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the deed go with it; from this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. And even now, to crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: the castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool; this deed I'll do before this purpose cool. But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen? Come, bring me where they are.
Duncan:
The older King of Scotland, he’s the patriarchal figure for all of Scotland, and his death will throw of the natural order of things out of whack. I need someone who can be the father of a nation while he’s alive.
Line 1: (praising someone he loves like a son)
O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now was heavy on me: thou art so far before that swiftest wing of recompense is slow to overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved, That the proportion both of thanks and payment might have been mine! only I have left to say, more is thy due than more than all can pay.
Line 2: (With the authority of the King)
Sons, kinsmen, thanes, and you whose places are the nearest, know we will establish our estate upon our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter the Prince of Cumberland; which honour must not unaccompanied invest him only, but signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all deservers. From hence to Inverness, and bind us further to you.
Malcolm:
The most fit to rule is the one who does not want to. Malcolm has a low opinon of himself, and thinks that he’d be a worse King than Macbeth. But underneath that, he has a spine of steel.
Line 1: (Protesting the notion)
It is myself I mean: in whom I know all the particulars of vice so grafted that, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms. I grant him bloody, luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name: but there's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust, and my desire all continent impediments would o'erbear that did oppose my will: better Macbeth than such an one as I to reign.
Not gonna lie, people are kinda scared of Shakespeare, and that’s okay. But guys, Shakespeare is just another writer, and like other writers his words only lack actors to bring them to life.
The cool thing about Shakespeare, is that after people walk out of the theater, they might not be able to tell you the specifics, but they can tell you the story of it. And that’s because the actors did a good job making sure they knew what they were saying. The trick to making an audience understands Shakespeare, is to make sure the actors understand their lines.
If you’re going to be in Shakespeare, you have to read it and understand what you’re saying. [/FONT]It doesn’t matter how pretty you sound; if you don’t understand what you’re saying; the audience won’t either.
So, I’m looking for people with good audio quality, who can bring the text to life, and are willing to spend the time to understand what the text is saying to a point that they can relate it to the audience. It’s not an easy task, but I know many of you actors are up to the challenge. And I look forward to what you will achieve.
THE DIRECTIONS FOR ALL AUDITIONS:
1) Do not process your lines (and I will know if you do), just record them, select your best take, trim the rest, export and send them in
2) Record your lines in 44100hz, 16-bit MP3, stereo or mono doesn't matter, but it must be a mp3 file.
3) Each audition line need to be in a separate file, and only your best take of that line.
4) Name your files like so: Line###_CHARACTERNAME_YOURCREDITNAME. So, if I auditioned for Lady Macbeth, my audition files would read like this: Line001_LadyMacbeth_ColinKelly and Line002_LadyMacbeth_ColinKelly respectively.
5) Make sure somewhere in the e-mail you put the name to credit you with.
6) Put all auditions in one .zip file, and send it to colin@pendantaudio.com
This audition is open to everyone, no prior experience with Pendant required, and ALL voice types are accepted; in fact, I'm delighted to see your takes on these classic characters. This is a monthly commitment, for a period of 5 months for the 5 acts of Macbeth. Each act will come out monthly at www.pendantaudio.com/shakespeare.php
ACT ONE AUDITIONS:
While there are 8 roles here, 4 more will be cast out of the auditions recieved, so PLEASE AUDITION.
The deadline for auditioning is 11:59pm PST on June 20th, 2012.
Looking forward to a clogged inbox! And more to follow in the following acts!
-Colin
Female Roles:
The Three Witches:
I’m open to interpretations, they don’t have to be old, fogey crones; they can be sweet, youthful ladies; they can even be a young girl, a middle aged woman, and a crone like the Fates. Surprise me.
Line 1: (delightedly sinister)
A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:-- 'Give me,' quoth I: 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: but in a sieve I'll thither sail, and, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Line 2: (dancing in a circle as they cast their spell)
The weird sisters, hand in hand, posters of the sea and land, thus do go about, about: thrice to thine and thrice to mine and thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! the charm's wound up.
Lady Macbeth:
Incredibly ambitious for her station with no moral compass. She is sociopath, but downplay that. Her general attitude is that of apathy, with a constant drive to get her husband to move above his station. His ambition is fueled by hers.
Line 1: (kindly and respectfully)
All our service in every point twice done and then done double were poor and single business to contend against those honours deep and broad wherewith your majesty loads our house: for those of old, and the late dignities heap'd up to them, we rest your hermits.
Line 2: (extremely pleased with herself)
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; what hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it: the doors are open; and the surfeited grooms do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, that death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
Banquo:
Fierce and loyal, and too clever for her own good. Banquo is a warrior in her own right, who’s earned her place among the ranks of the thanes, and Macbeth’s right hand. She trusts Macbeth completely, and while she may have her doubts, she’ll follow his lead.
Line 1: (inquisitive)
What are these so wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, and yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught that man may question? You seem to understand me, by each at once her chappy finger laying upon her skinny lips: you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.
Line 2: (beginning to doubt, but hope starts to form in her words)
Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity, but that myself should be the root and mother of many kings. If there come truth from them-- as upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine-- why, by the verities on thee made good, may they not be my oracles as well, and set me up in hope? But hush! no more.
Male roles:
Macbeth:
A man of honor and ambition, Macbeth is an incredibly complicated character, and we need to see a progression when a man of greatness separates remorse from power, slipping slowly into madness along the way.
Line 1: (commanding)
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: by Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis; but how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives, a prosperous gentleman; and to be king stands not within the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence? or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
Line 2: (In a funk, half-scared of himself)
Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Line 3: (barely containing his rage)
Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits: the flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the deed go with it; from this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. And even now, to crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: the castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool; this deed I'll do before this purpose cool. But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen? Come, bring me where they are.
Duncan:
The older King of Scotland, he’s the patriarchal figure for all of Scotland, and his death will throw of the natural order of things out of whack. I need someone who can be the father of a nation while he’s alive.
Line 1: (praising someone he loves like a son)
O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now was heavy on me: thou art so far before that swiftest wing of recompense is slow to overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved, That the proportion both of thanks and payment might have been mine! only I have left to say, more is thy due than more than all can pay.
Line 2: (With the authority of the King)
Sons, kinsmen, thanes, and you whose places are the nearest, know we will establish our estate upon our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter the Prince of Cumberland; which honour must not unaccompanied invest him only, but signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all deservers. From hence to Inverness, and bind us further to you.
Malcolm:
The most fit to rule is the one who does not want to. Malcolm has a low opinon of himself, and thinks that he’d be a worse King than Macbeth. But underneath that, he has a spine of steel.
Line 1: (Protesting the notion)
It is myself I mean: in whom I know all the particulars of vice so grafted that, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms. I grant him bloody, luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name: but there's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust, and my desire all continent impediments would o'erbear that did oppose my will: better Macbeth than such an one as I to reign.