Richard III Audition: Edgar served up with a side of Caligula

I was in rehearsal yesterday for Modern Minstrelsy when I got an email from Independent Shakespeare Company, asking me to come in today and audition for our guest director for Richard III. I spent that evening looking at a monologue that I had been preparing for my audition for Long Beach Shakespeare's production of King Lear coming up at the end of the month. I accelerated my study of the piece a bit and took it into the audition this morning on my way to rehearsal at Rogue Machine. I got three quarters through the monologue before I blanked and broke. I picked it back up from where I left off and finished. Not wanting to conclude my audition on that note, I told him that I also had my Romeo audition still in my back pocket, as well as a piece from Albert Camus' Caligula. (Truth be told, I hadn't performed the Camus piece since November.) He asked the see the Caligula piece. I love doing that monologue, as nerdy as that is to fucking say, that's what this blog is all about! It's one I've worked for hours and it's never left my brain I guess because I could just do it on the spot, as I did it before for Theatre Banshee. It seemed to leave an impression anyway, and I felt great leaving the room after that. Fingers crossed on this one.