An Introduction...

My name is Izzy Watkins and I am using this blogger page to present my journey in directing a play. When deciding upon what to do for my EPQ I knew I wanted to do something theatre or musical based- being a music and drama AS student.
As I plan to study musical theatre at University, my first thoughts were to direct a musical however I came across issues before even beginning: my school is small with predominantly girls, only having boys from the ages of 11 to 13. Due to this I began looking up musicals with all-female casts. I came across the website 'stagescripts' where hundreds of play synopsis' and scripts were on show. I was spoilt for choice and the idea of a musical was thrown out the window when I found a play called 'The Audition' by James Johnson.
'The Audition' drew me in straight away with it's synopsis:

Lauren is like most wannabe actresses - she wants to be famous, and to be famous you have to suffer the audition process.So when she attends an audition for a 'must-have', career-building part, little does she know that the Director, Stella, has very strong views about how an audition should be conducted; about how the person auditioning should be tested and what should and should not be said. Stella is about to push Lauren to her mental, physical, emotional and ethical limits. Each of her auditions lasts for a complete day, and they are very much one to one.Close to her breaking point, Lauren is subjected to alcohol, drugs and mind games as part of the audition process, all so that Stella can find out the answer to one question. How far will an actress go to get the part?

So, now begins the next few months of: casting a Lauren and a Stella; finding a location in which to perform the play; creating sets; selling tickets and so much more. I'm feeling very excited for this project as i've never had the opportunity to direct before and the play is magnificent.