One of the reasons actors of all ages and experience can find acting auditions nerve-wracking is the element of the unknown. Until you walk into the room, you can’t know what you are going to be expected to do. The ‘cold reading’ is an unknown, and you may be asked to read it in different ways. With your prepared pieces, however, you are completely in control. You can show your talent exactly as you want it to be seen.
Choose contrasting pieces: a classical soliloquy and something contemporary; or something serious and something comic. However well you think you know them, try reciting them in completely different, even bizarre ways. You will be surprised how much added meaning you can find to the text if you give it time. Imagine the speech as said by someone of the opposite sex, or by a child or an old person. Then imagine situations: how do different circumstances affect the way you deliver your lines? This is the same for TV auditions as well as theatre auditions, so it is important to be prepared.
Perform your audition pieces to friends or family: don’t change things because they say you should, but think about their responses, and what that tells you about the effect your performance has. They will give you an idea about what reaction you will generate at casting calls.
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