Telephone monologue question

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 12:47am

If you're doing an audition and your character has to talk on the phone at the end and reference the phone a lot (it's Catherine's monologue from Memory of Water) is it okay to bring in a cell phone or is it better to mime one?

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 2:26am

mime, but actually HOLD the phone, don't do the "hang ten" thing

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 1:15pm

I don't recommend doing a monologue over the phone. It's better to have a monologue where you're talking to someone in the room (and then visualize them straight ahead of you in the back of the audience and deliver it that way). A phone locks you off a lot.

I've actually done a Catherine monologue from MoW as well... The one where she says she gives too much, and ends up saying she's lonely (the f-word can be removed if you need it to be). You really don't need a phone for that at all. You should look at it.

If you really want to do the monologue that involves the phone, I agree that you should mime holding a phone.

Updated On: 9/16/06 at 01:15 PM

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 9:48pm

It's not that one. It's before it, at the beginning of the scene. It starts "ring ring ring, please God make him ring...."

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 12:54am

For that one, I'd bring a cell phone.

[i_am_ECas]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 11:27pm

i've heard to always bring the phone IF you are set on doing a monologue using a phone...
but i've heard its better to just not use "phone talking" monologues in general.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 12:15am

To clarify for those who don't know this monologue, I'm fairly certain that she talks AT the phone and ABOUT the phone... I don't think she talks to another person using the phone at that phone in the play. So it's not what you think when you read "telephone monologue". It's more a question of whether it's a good idea to bring a prop in general.