Acting
Turn up for an audition. Do what the director says. Sometimes the director will ask you if you have a prepared piece. If so, present it. Nearly always you will be given a few pages of the play and asked to read one of the parts. Often the director will ask you to change the way you present the part. If you can take direction (that’s what it is called) you can take nearly any role. This year The Housemaid or Second Policeman. In years to come, Hedda Gabler or Hercule Poirot. If you can’t take direction your roles will be more limited, but they are there.
If you don’t think you are up to a full season (many weeks or rehearsals, two or three per week, and 18 two-hour performances before an audience) you can try it out at Subscribers’ Night, short pieces, few rehearsals and only two performances. If you don’t know whether you can take direction or not, this is where to find out.
But what’s this “take direction?
TITANIA: What, jealous Oberon!
DIRECTOR: No, No, his name isn’t Jealous Oberon. You are accusing him of being jealous. Taunt him.
TITANIA: What jealous, Oberon?
If you can taunt him, you can take direction.
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