Bold & Risky Choices at Auditions

[@GabrielcTime]

Thanks Friend! Auditions starting again....these tip are extremely helpful to hear, back at it!

[@AugmentedActor]

Glad I can help. Break legs at all your auditions!

[@brainboostingpills]

This was a really great video!

[@AugmentedActor]

Thank you!!

[@georgiaemb]

Great video. It's just what I needed. This is something I am really struggling with. But for someone who has comprehending difficulties how can I understand why my character is saying that line. For example, "Unlike some people I know who seem to have more arms than a octopus." A line from Dads Army which I'm currently in rehearsals in. Thanks.

[@AugmentedActor]

Those kinds of lines can be puzzling even if you don't have comprehension difficulties. Shakespeare is full of poetic devices like this. It's often enough just to say the line just as it's written and trust that the writer is strong enough that the audience will understand the reference. In this particular case, you'd need more context from the scene to understand what the line is actually referring to, but I would say that it probably refers to another character who is grabby, or flailing or who is like a magician with slight of hand. An octopus has 8 arms, so imagine the "person you know" as having 15 arms. What would that say about them? Are they clumsy? Distracting? always in your face? talk with their hands too much? fully 'armed'? Look at the lines the other characters are saying in that scene, know which person your are referring to, and then hopefully one of those answers will make some sense.

[@georgiaemb]

@@AugmentedActor The way I am seeing it is exactly what you said. I know which character she is referring to and that he is a lady's man and I think he is always wanting her attention. So it's just figuring out how to say it. That helped, Thank you.

[@AugmentedActor]

In that case the image is him always grabbing for her attention. Pawing at her asking for something surround her at every moment as if he had more arms than an octopus. Glad I could help you clarify.