Interesting Morning

I had an audition this morning for a play (As You Like It) at a tiny theatre on Hollywood and La Brea. I spent the night at my friend's house so that I would actually be close enough to have the energy to get out of bed while suffering from a day light's savings time change and go to the audition.

I walked to my car and there was a huge swarm of bees surrounding my car. they were mainly laying on the top of and then about a hundred were flying around it. It was terrifying. Bees can kill you! You can't mess around with them. So I stood there for a while waiting to see if they would abate, because I did not want to make them angry, and then finally I went back to my friend's house to try and see if we could brainstorm a solution to the situation.

After a while my friend decided to be brave and jumped in my car and drove it around the block to get the bees off. Meanwhile, being the brave warrior that I am, I ran, fled really back to the house.

Finally I was able to leave to my audition, thank god it wasn't a set time kind of thing, they just said to show up between 9 am and 12pm. Which by the way is stupid and inhuman because actors hate morning. I got there at about 11 40.

I read for Phebe and that went really well, luckily I have done her main speech before so it was not like a total cold read. But they thought it was! Muahaha.

Then they asked me to read for Rosalind also, which is rad because she is the lead and with Shakespeare companies it is rare that outsiders get to go straight for the top. Usually it is common knowledge that one works themselves up the ladder, though of course there are exceptions.

Would really love to get this part, I miss being onstage and I was surprised with how comfortable I was with the language since it has been a while since I have performed Shakespeare.

We shall see.