Soliloquy

Soliloquy, hard to spell, hard to perform well. Usually, when acting something, you have a scene partner to take cues and impulses off of. In doing a monologue, this is even more important, because you have to create an imaginary scene partner. Soliloquys are difficult because there is no scene partner, you are taking to the audience. This is especially challenging for me, because I'm so used to creating that imaginary person in my monologue work, I spent an entire semester with Will Lebow figuring out that trick but when say performing "Thou nature art my goddess" or "Thus do I ever make my fool my purse", two villainous soliloquys I've performed in the past, that doesn't really work. The latter I learned more recently, and have more seriously pursued as an audition piece, and today working with my monologue coach I had a breakthrough with it. The other difficulty of course is Shakespeare's fucking verse, and doing justice to it while using it as a guide an aid through the text. Working today though, I found the correct focus, and really hitting on the pentameter and the line endings, started really cruising through the speech for the first time, and really felt the language and it's ideas carry me. It felt good! Stagesource here I come.