For those that don't know, SLAMBoston is a ten-minute play festival licensed by Another Country Productions to other theatre companies. The producing company gets to use the name "SLAMBoston" while Another Country gets to put their name on the bill. Everybody wins!!
Location
When we reached the building in which the auditions were said to be held, the three of us - with the help of our new traveling companion, Mike, who had also just come from the Shakespeare Now audition - scoured the halls for clues as to what room the auditions were being held in.
In time, we stumbled upon a fellow from the IDS who pointed us upstairs into a lecture hall. There, the lot of us filled out audition forms and read over summaries for the eight or so plays being produced, all while shooting the breeze with the gang in charge.
Scenario
All the gang from the IDS - they didn't seem any older than us, which was pretty heartening - were running around handing off scripts and information to each other from between the sign-in room in the second floor and the audition room a floor above and several doors over. This was so, because they were the only rooms in the building that they could find.
Joe and I were handed sides from a play about guys who can or can't pee while they're having a conversation.
Audition
And then we went upstairs to read it for four or five directors. Afterwards, one of them handed us a piece of paper and said, "Make a scene out of this. Come back in five minutes."
He handed us The Jabberwocky.
So Joe and I crafted a tale of love, valor and cowardice, and through both our pains the Jabberwocky was slain.
Chelsea and Katie Müller , who arrived shortly after us when we told her to come, were handed the same material, only instead of slaying the Jabberwocky they humped each other.
The audition went on very similarly, being handed sides and working on them very quickly with each other, and those that we didn't know as well. The materials seemed more varied and accessible than that from the last SLAMBoston I was in. It was as far removed as you could imagine from the Shakespeare Now audition - we were having fun!
Reflection
I was cast! The play is called Canadian Tuxedo, and is being directed by Ben Flad of the IDS. It's about hitmen. Which is rad.
Katie was also cast in a play along with our cohort Scarlett Redmond. We are taking this Slam by storm.
So, in these last two rounds of headshots, the two times that I was cast were for productions of SLAMBoston.
The professional companies may not care for me, but the independent guys seem to love me!
And: I was never actually asked for a headshot. That totally makes up for my having to give two to the Shakespeare Now people.
Cha-ching!
Still, 5 headshots remain.
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