*GIANT sigh of happiness*

Best. Audition. Ever.

I don't even really care if I make callbacks (though I do really want to). It was worth it just to audition.

Audition Time Again! Shakespeare style.

Yay! I have an audition for my university's mainstage production. I'm super-excited. It's a Shakespeare play, and I'm using this monologue to audition.

Volumnia from Coriolanus

Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment

And state of bodies would bewray what life

We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself

How more unfortunate than all living women

Are we come hither: since that thy sight, which should

make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts,

Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;

Making the mother, wife and child to see

The son, the husband and the father tearing

His country's bowels out. And to poor we

Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us

Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort

That all but we enjoy; for how can we,

Alas, how can we for our country pray.

Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,

Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose

The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,

Our comfort in the country. We must find

An evident calamity, though we had

Our wish, which side should win: for either thou

Must, as a foreign recreant, be led

With manacles thorough our streets, or else

triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,

And bear the palm for having bravely shed

Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,

I purpose not to wait on fortune till

These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee

Rather to show a noble grace to both parts

Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner

March to assault thy country than to tread--

Trust to't, thou shalt not--on thy mother's womb,

That brought thee to this world.

Rebirth of the Theatre!

I know not many of you have been reading my book blog for two years. But if you have, you may remember Actress Antics, my Theatre blog.

Well, it's back! As you can clearly see!

I find it ironic that I would bring it back now, when I am doing relatively little theatre, rather than last year, when my whole life was theatre. But, there you go.

However, unlike Squeaky Books, I am not going to feel any pressure to update this blog on a regular basis. I'm just gonna update when I have something to update it with.

And there you go. Welcome to Actress Antics