{"id":4218,"date":"2018-10-17T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:09:26","slug":"im-going-to-audition-for-hamlet-in-less-than-two-weeks-do-you-think-the-queen-mab-speech-is-a-good-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/17\/im-going-to-audition-for-hamlet-in-less-than-two-weeks-do-you-think-the-queen-mab-speech-is-a-good-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to audition for Hamlet in less than two weeks. Do you think the Queen Mab speech is a good choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101718-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4208\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101718-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"I'm going to audition for Hamlet in less than two weeks. Do you think the Queen Mab speech is a good choice? (I'm a girl tho) I don't know if it's an appropriate monologue for auditioning for a tragedy and I dunno if I'll be able to portray Mercutio. But I like it.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101718-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101718-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101718-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101718-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m going to audition for Hamlet in less than two weeks. Do you think the Queen Mab speech is a good choice? (I&#8217;m a girl tho) I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s an appropriate monologue for auditioning for a tragedy and I dunno if I&#8217;ll be able to portray Mercutio. But I like it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pretty good Reddit thread with advice on auditioning for Shakespeare, and you&#8217;ve already avoided pitfall #1&#8211;doing something from the play you&#8217;re auditioning for. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-mab\">bit.ly\/bc-mab<\/a>. We&#8217;ve also got a few books on auditioning for Shakespeare that look good, with some collections of scenes for auditions: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-shakes\">bit.ly\/bc-shakes<\/a>. The Reddit advice is to pick something similar to your age and gender, but I&#8217;d think some gender fluidity would not be amiss. Break a leg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a pretty good Reddit thread with advice on auditioning for Shakespeare, and you&#8217;ve already avoided pitfall #1&#8211;doing something from the play you&#8217;re auditioning for. bit.ly\/bc-mab. We&#8217;ve also got a few books on auditioning for Shakespeare that look good, with some collections of scenes for auditions: bit.ly\/bc-shakes. The Reddit advice is to pick something similar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/17\/im-going-to-audition-for-hamlet-in-less-than-two-weeks-do-you-think-the-queen-mab-speech-is-a-good-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m going to audition for Hamlet in less than two weeks. Do you think the Queen Mab speech is a good choice?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-hamlet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}