'Connections' Auditions

 

In order to start the auditions for ‘Connections’, we picked out a character we liked, and we thought we wanted to audition for. So, I looked thought the script and had spotted the character ‘Kobe’, he seemed interesting to me for many reasons. One being when I had read through the script and seen the difference between the younger ‘Kobe’ and older ‘Kobe’, there was a massive change in character between the two. After everything the character had been through, the traumatic things that had happened and how that had changed him so much from when he was younger. For instance, he went straight to the path of finding ‘God’ and changing himself, to move away from the life he had before. As he knew not only himself, but his grandmother couldn’t cope with it anymore. Moreover, as his grandmother becomes ill and get worse and worse, his fear of his past returning to ruin is life once more and his fears for his grandmother’s health increase in turn. 

Therefore, for the audition we had to look at a couple of scenes and work on them as a group. The play only works if there is good chemistry between the actors, it needs to feel natural, like they have been through all this hardship in the past four years of their lives together. So, I was going to audition for older ‘Kobe’, he had been through all this misfortune and change in his life from the past and I needed to be abler to show this in my performance. I thought about how awkward he would feel to meet all these people from years ago. How he doesn’t really want to be involved in their lives anymore, he wants his life to be separated from everything else. 

We were also given the option to pick a second character to audition for. I chose ‘Zafer’, who had cancer and I felt like you could bring a lot to the character as an actor. For me the character has a lot of emotion, and I really liked that idea. I wanted to explore it further. I auditioned for this role with Charley, who was playing my sister ‘Stefie’. Now, Charley and I have paired up together quite a bit in previous performances, usually as a couple and not siblings. Nonetheless, the chemistry still must have worked even in a different context, as a lot of people liked our version of the two siblings. Even though we didn't acquire the roles we wanted, on the understudy cast we did manage to be paired together as the brother and sister, so that was good. I feel we can bring a lot to these characters, as we have done previously.