Can Hecate from Macbeth be played by a 25yr old actress?

I would love to use this, Character, Hecate, The goddess of witchcraft, who helps the three witches work their mischief on Macbeth, for an audition but I'm wondering if it will be inappropriate since I'm 25. What do you think? Thank you

Updated On: 1/13/14 at 09:46 PM

As long as the role can be playyed with steely authority dictated by lifetimes of experience, Hecate can be any age. Use the child vampire in Anne Rice's novel as an example.

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I think it depends on the type of audition.

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Well, she's not a vampire she's a goddess

What particular HEcate speech do you have in mind?

How long a speech are they requesting?

Does it have to be Shakespeare? Does it have to be a woman's part? Can it be a sonnet (tough but beautiful)?

Do you also have to read a modern part? What are you doing for that?

No offense, SNAFU - I don't know the Rice book but I am tired to death (pun) of the whole vampire thing going on in the entertainment industry. I wonder if one could use Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher as a model for Hecate? Many of Thatcher's opponents would probably love that idea!

The only caveat I would put forth is that among many Shakespeare scholars, there is an assumption that he did not write Hecate's big scene. Someone Else did, but we don't know whom. It is one reason that Hecate is often cut from The Scottish Play.

If there are real and pseudo Shakespeare scholars among the auditioners, this could be an issue.

Think of the cool steely stiletto of Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. Or the opposite--Cruella DeVille. Or a combination of both. My point being that you can go in any number of directions with a character like this so long as she remains magnetic and in control.

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LOVE the idea of Angela Lansbury from MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE - brilliant performance by someone who was chronologically much younger than her character.