AS Drama and Theatre Studies
Tuesday 10 December 2013
Macbeth Auditions
Macbeth Auditions
Monday 25th
November 2013
Time 12.30-3.00pm
You will need to bring
with you a photograph of yourself (headshot)
Who you would like to
play. (I suggest you put down 3 choices)
You will need to learn
the audition piece.
GOOD LUCK!
Female Monologue
ACT I
SCENE V
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Inverness.
Macbeth's castle.
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LADY
MACBETH
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'They
met me in the day of success: and I have
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learned
by the perfectest report, they have more in
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them
than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire
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to
question them further, they made themselves air,
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into
which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in
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the
wonder of it, came missivesfrom the king, who
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all-hailed
me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,
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before,
these weird sisters saluted me, and referred
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me to
the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that
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shalt
be!' This have I thought good to deliver
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thee,
my dearest partner of greatness, that thou
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mightst
not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being
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ignorant
of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it
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to thy
heart, and farewell.'
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Glamis
thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
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What
thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;
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Art not
without ambition, but without
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And yet
wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,
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Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,
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30
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Male Monologue
Is this a dagger
which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[A bell rings]
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
[Exit]
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[A bell rings]
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
[Exit]
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