Characters

'The Audition' has two female characters:

Stella: A fearsome and sadistic director who embarks on a campaign to push Lauren to her limits both psychologically and physically.

Lauren: A young, ambitious actress desperate to impress with her modern day rendition of Ophelia.

The basic plot of the play follows Stella manipulating Lauren into any character that she sees fit and Lauren giving herself willingly, an example of society's increasing need for 'fifteen minutes of fame' in this pop culture and reality TV-obsessed era. Stella and Lauren take turns vying for control in the master and subservient dance that is all too familiar in theatre and film. Along the way there are drugs, sexual abuse and a game of Russian roulette.

I wanted to put on a play with a cast of 10 or less. This is because I will be doing most of the work over the Summer holidays and it is likely that people will be abroad or busy and it will be hard to get the whole cast together to rehearse. 'The Audition' is a dark play in some senses therefore I plan to cast people between year 11 and year 13.

While reading through the play I kept reading Stella's line in the voice of a girl in my AS Drama class, Lizzy. Lizzy is a fantastic actress and is particularly good in psychopathic, evil and satirical characters so I thought she would be absolutely perfect for the part. After showing her the script and explaining my ideas she was very interested and agreed to playing the part of Stella. 

The role of Lauren will be harder to cast: as said by Stella in the script, the character has to express emotions of '...Isolation, Elation, Paranoia, Embarrassment, Confusion, Excitement, Lust, Honesty, Anger, Sympathy Regret, Obsession'. I plan to advertise the production around the school and hold an audition for 15-19 year olds, however, in my audition I don't plan to offer my auditionees drugs or play Russian Roulette with them!