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Audition Sides from Heathers: The Musical and Other Plays - Character Insights, Lecture notes of Voice

Audition sides from four different plays: cock by mike bartlett, this by melissa james gibson, fat pig by neil labute, and stars by romulus linney. The sides offer insights into the characters' thoughts, emotions, and motivations as they grapple with various personal and interpersonal issues.

What you will learn

  • What are the main issues that the woman character is dealing with in Cock by Mike Bartlett?
  • How does the character She react to discovering her husband's small sexual organ in Stars by Romulus Linney?
  • Why does Alan find the 'What Do You Do' question so problematic in THIS by Melissa James Gibson?
  • What experiences and feelings does Carter have towards the overweight woman in Fat Pig by Neil LaBute?

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Heathers:)The)Musical!Audition!Sides!
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I!mean!I!think!there’s!still!something!
But!you!went!back!to!him!I!hope!you’re!happy.!
The!problem!is!we!can’t!stop!looking.!
I!think!you!are!really!really!scared.!
Something!happened!when!we!slept!together!I!could!see!what!happened!in!your!
head!that!night,!what!you!let!yourself!think!for!a!moment!that!maybe!it!was!okay,!
maybe!it!was!allowed,!and!as!I!said!before!I’m!just!very!honest!and!I!have!a!
feeling!it’s!only!a!matter!of!time!before!the!things!that’ve!been!nudged!out!of!
place!in!your!head!find!a!new!a!new!pattern!and!you!realize!that,!John,!you!can!
do!what!you!like.!It’s!okay.!!
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I!don’t!know!what!it!is,!I’m!sorry!I’m!not!speaking,!I’m!sorry,!I!know!it’s!weird!but!
I’m!two!different!people!with!the!two!of!you!when!you’re!separate!and!now!I’m!
in!the!middle!and!no!one.![…]!everyone!else!seems!to!have!a!personality!a!
character!but!I’ve!never,!I’ve!never—-I!used!to!do!voices,!I!remember!one!
moment!when!I!couldn’t!think!what!was!my!own!voice,!I’d!been!doing!high!voices!
and!northern!voices!and!men’s!voices!and!impressions!of!the!teachers!and!my!
Dad,!and!people!ion!the!telly!and!everyone!was!laughing!and!I!tried!o!go!back!to!
my!own!voice!but!I!couldn’t!remember!what!it!was.!
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Heathers: The Musical Audition Sides From Cock by Mike Bartlett Woman: I mean I think there’s still something But you went back to him I hope you’re happy. The problem is we can’t stop looking. I think you are really really scared. Something happened when we slept together I could see what happened in your head that night, what you let yourself think for a moment that maybe it was okay, maybe it was allowed, and as I said before I’m just very honest and I have a feeling it’s only a matter of time before the things that’ve been nudged out of place in your head find a new a new pattern and you realize that, John, you can do what you like. It’s okay. John: I don’t know what it is, I’m sorry I’m not speaking, I’m sorry, I know it’s weird but I’m two different people with the two of you when you’re separate and now I’m in the middle and no one. […] everyone else seems to have a personality a character but I’ve never, I’ve never—-I used to do voices, I remember one moment when I couldn’t think what was my own voice, I’d been doing high voices and northern voices and men’s voices and impressions of the teachers and my Dad, and people ion the telly and everyone was laughing and I tried o go back to my own voice but I couldn’t remember what it was.

From THIS by Melissa James Gibson Alan: Don’t you hate that question? The what do you do question Why do you need to know what I do Because you don’t really mean What Do You Do what you really mean is How Much Money Do You Make and Do You Make More Money Than I Do and Could You Possibly Be Of Use To Me As I Continue On My Path Of Attempting To Make More Money and really the What Do You Do question is just a shortcut to the unspoken ranking system that’s going on in all interpersonal situations at all times What Do You Do I’ll tell you what I Do I drink a lot I read a lot and I jerk off with Olympic frequency you know I mean THAT’S What I Do From Fat Pig by Neil LaBute Carter: Dude, I understand. Like, totally. (Beat). I used to walk ahead of her in the mall or, you know, not tell her stuff at school so there wouldn’t be, whatever. My own mom. I mean … I’m fifteen and worried about every little thing, and I’ve got this fucking sumo wrestler in a housecoat trailing behind me. That’s about as bad as it can get! I’m not kidding you. And the thing was, I blamed her for it. I mean, it wasn’t like a disease or like some people have, thyroid or that type of deal … she just shoveled shit into her mouth all the time, had a few kids, and, bang, she’s up there at 350, maybe more. It used to seriously piss me off. My dad was always working late … golfing on weekends, and I knew it was because of her. It had to be! How’s he gonna love something that looks like that, get all sexy with her? I’m just a kid at the time, but I can remember thinking that.

Clovis: I submitted anonymously. On the opening day of the exhibition, I went to the gallery and watched unnoticed. People laughed at the painting. It was called frivolous. I was described as a greedy person because of all the jewelry. One critic called it the ugliest painting of the year. Another said, the silliest painting he’d ever seen. What did this mean? I was baffled. My motive was beauty not ugliness, and greed played no part. What is frivolous about trying to paint the way light touches on different surfaces? What I realize now is that, without thinking, I had instinctively chosen objects that a woman would use. […] You see, I’d chosen objects I loved. Isn’t a painter someone who sets the light free? What does it matter which objects I choose? From The Man Who Couldn’t Dance by Jason Katims Eric: I’m sorry. I said what I thought. I broke the unwritten rule between us since we broke up. I’m supposed to smile, and talk to you like I’m really interested in just the right amount of sugar to put into the pecan pie recipe. […] I liked the pie. I thought it had a little too much sugar. I just don’t understand why everyone who makes pecan pie is obligated to put too much sugar in it because every other pecan pie has too much sugar in it because every other pecan pie has too much sugar in it. It’s like a world doomed to repeat its horrors. I eat that pecan pie and I think we’re just marking time until the next goddamn Holocaust.