Guildhall Acting Auditions - Top tips on choosing your monologues

Graduate Audition Panellists Matti Houghton and Ashley Zhangazha share their top tips for choosing your monologues for your Acting audition at Guildhall, including:
Speaking the text with your own voice
Finding something that speaks to you as an individual
Choosing material that excites you
Reading the play that the monologue comes from
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[@fruitygranulizer540]

i love how the main advice for ACTORS (whose job is to ACT like other people) is to BE YOURSELF? like what the fuck...

[@alexandrunastasa286]

I think what they're trying to say is "Don't act, just do." Trying to act is very likely to kill the life in the text. The text was meant to be done, the character is a person, and you're trying to identify with them so that you can be them. You're not tryin to act like them. I think that's a pretty subtle yet powerful difference.

[@AustentatiousProductions]

Erm, um, err, um, um. Really?

[@TWGypsey]

Totally agree. Why? Because the pause you destroy with an 'um' is crucial to effective delivery. Pauses build the essential tension that keeps the listener engaged. Filling the pause with noises like Erm, um, err destroys powerful delivery. Imagine for example JFK's "Ask not,,, um, what your country, erm, can do for you... ". We coach TV and Radio broadcasters and offer a simple solution until the 'um' habit is broken... Say the 'um' silently to yourself so it never passes the lips...Give the silence between words the chance to do their magic. "Never,,,,, in the field of human conflict..... has so much.... been owed by so many........ to so few"