Thursday 8 December 2016

Auditions (29) - "Spacewang" research

The http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/spacewang-iid-153450 website said the following about my monologue and the play:
"A short monologue in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens. Nora may seem your stereotypical fourteen-year-old girl: playing truancy and nicking vodka to neck behind the wheelie bins, but looks can be deceiving. Today is a special day for Nora and her homemade alien radar kit. She’s sure all the signs are pointing to a possible contact, tonight, and she wants to make sure she doesn’t miss it. Though Wells’ monologue has many comedic highlights, it is also tinged with melancholy too as the audience slowly realises who Nora is really trying to reach. Spacewang was first performed at Hull Truck Theatre in 2011."
The monologue is as follows:
"Shoplifting is a piece of piss. You just, you basically just: nick it. And then you get caught. And the security man goes: ‘What you doing?’ and you just have to say really loud: ‘NO, CARL’ or whatever his badge says. And if there’s any old ladies near- by, or nuns and that, and there always is, they look over and Carl gets well con- fused. Starts steering you by your shoulders to his little office. And you hang on till you’re just in the doorway then shout: ‘COS I DON’T WANT TO SHOW YOU MY FANNY. AGAIN.’ He panics and you just run off. Next time you nick something though he remembers what happened and you can see him thinking ‘not worth it’, just lets you get away with it. So you can get quite a lot of vodka really, it’s no trouble. And actually I’m quite good mates with Carl now. He gives me this little nod near exotic fruit then in about five minutes he’s out the back on his break. We get pissed between the wheelie bins. And I did show him my fanny in the end but. Just to say thanks but. He wasn’t fussed."
 My character is 14 and appears to be quite lonely, as she has a fascination with aliens and doesn't seem to have any other interaction with people (apart from Carl). I assume she doesn't have supportive and caring parents as she often shoplifts and gets drunk.

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