"No pressure," the director told us, but if we do a good enough job with this, the post may get a theater program."
The play we are performing is Dorothy Meets Alice, a one act play about a boy who hasn't yet prepared his book report assignment which is due the next day. He falls asleep having read only a portion of Alice in Wonderland and having watched only a part of The Wizard of Oz.
I was asked to read for the part of Dorothy and Alice fully realizing that those parts were for younger folks. Honestly, I expected to be part of the crew, not cast. And I was half right as the cast is the crew.
It wasn't until the end of the audition when we were all on stage, standing in a line that the director asked if anyone didn't know what cockney was.
Only one person raised her hand.
I was at the far end of the line. That's when the director handed me the script and said, "Read this in cockney and pass it on."
So I did.
Consequently, I was cast as the dormouse from Alice in Wonderland.
The dormouse has a very, very small part for which I am very, very thankful.
Incidentally, our play is part of a competition.
Pray for me.
1 comments:
That sounds like a lot of fun, particularly since you don't have to memorize a ton of lines.
--Marie
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