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AUDITION NOTES:
  • The production team will provide you with a scene partner to read with.
  • Memorizing the text is not required.
  • Mr. Hopkins is requesting you perform two pieces:
  1. The first will be of your choosing. (Our hope is that this will help warm you up and help you feel more comfortable before taking a pass at Webster's text, which can be challenging)
  2. The second will be from our script and is printed below.
  • There are additional notes to consider in the column on the right. These are here to give you more context IF you find that useful. Don't overdo it! There will be no written exam! :)

And most importantly enjoy yourself. We do not expect a "perfect" performance. We merely want a sense of who you are and what you may be able to contribute to our production. Have fun and we appreciate everyone's efforts in advance.
It will be great to meet you all face to face!
Jordan Morris: Producer






1ST EXCERPT:

CARIOLA
My lord, I lie with her often, and I know
She'll much disquiet you.

ANTONIO
[To THE DUCHESS] See, you are complain'd of.

CARIOLA
For she's the sprawling'st bedfellow.

ANTONIO
I shall like her the better for that.

CARIOLA
Sir, shall I ask you a question?

ANTONIO
I pray thee, Cariola.

CARIOLA
Wherefore still, when you lie with my lady,
Do you rise so early?

ANTONIO
Labouring men
Count the clock oft'nest, Cariola,
Are glad when their task's ended.
When wilt thou marry, Cariola?

CARIOLA
Never, my lord.
Tell me:
If there were propos'd me wisdom, riches, and beauty,
In three several young men, which should I choose?

END



2ND EXCERPT:


BOSOLA
Where's the waiting-woman?
Fetch her; some other strangle the children.
Look you: there sleeps your mistress.

CARIOLA
O, you are damn'd
Perpetually for this! My turn is next,
Is't not so ordered?

BOSOLA
Yes; and I am glad
You are so well prepar'd for't.

CARIOLA
You are deceiv'd, sir:
I am not prepar'd for't; I will not die.
I will first come to my answer, and know
How I have offended.

BOSOLA
Come, dispatch her:
You kept her counsel; now you shall keep ours.

CARIOLA
I will not die, I must not: I am contracted
To a young gentleman.

FIRST EXECUTIONER [Showing the noose.]
Here's your wedding-ring.

CARIOLA
Let me but speak with the duke: I'll discover
Treason to his person.

BOSOLA
Delays; throttle her.

FIRST EXECUTIONER
She bites and scratches!

CARIOLA
If you kill me now,
I am damn'd; I have not been at confession
This two years.

BOSOLA
[To EXECUTIONER.] When?

CARIOLA
I am quick with child!

BOSOLA
Why, then,
Your credit's saved! [FIRST EXECUTIONER strangles CARIOLA.]
Bear her into the next room;
Let her lie still.


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As you study the excerpt and prepare for your audition, also consider the following questions that Mr. Hopkins may ask you:


Why do you think Webster wrote Cariola into this scene?

Where would you start to create her entire background?

Do you think in this scene it is only fear of death that motivates her Panic?

Does she believe in heaven?

If so will she go there?


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