Ideas for auditions

Although I won't be auditioning for a while, I am already planning how I will audition girls for the role of Lauren.

Before the girls come to audition I will give them a snippet of the script to prepare and also to get to know the play and character. 

At the audition I will have the girls read the following scene with Lizzy in the role of Stella:

I think it's important to see how they act with Lizzy because they may be able to do monologues well but that doesn't necessarily mean they can work well in scenes with other characters.  

I will then have each girl also do one of the most intense scenes in the play in which Lauren thinks she is about to be killed. I need to see that they will have the confidence and the acting ability to pull of such a hard scene.

I will end the audition with a hot-seating exercise. Within a hot-seating exercise, the auditionee is in character while the director asks them questions and they must answer as the character. This will help me see if the girls are good with characterisation and will help them come up with their own ideas about that character that they can use later on if they get the part.