Auditions

[cjwatson]

I went along tonight to audition for the charity reading of the Lord of the Rings radio play that the Cambridge Tolkien Society is planning to do in a few months' time. It was quite fun; I narrated briefly, then read Aragorn against a really quite convincing Eowyn (whose name I don't know). With a few exceptions like Gollum they were more interested in hearing voices than particular characters, but I think I did OK. Of the others who were there, I found noteworthy emperor's and Richard's respective Gollums, somebody-whose-name-I-can't-remember's Galadriel, Matthew Reid's Denethor, and Sharmaine's Grima Wormtongue.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I liked MCV's Gollum too...

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do think it's so fun to read all the comments that people who were auditioning are making about "them".

It's like "Am I supposed to confirm/deny/admit that I've read this" or *what*?

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish I'd known about that..

[cjwatson]

There's a second round of auditions on the 1st of February, so you could go to those instead.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Any more info than that?

[cjwatson]

The last missive I can find just says "place and time to be confirmed, although it is likely to be late afternoon or early evening"; I don't think it's been decided yet. I can forward you the information when I get it, though.

(I'll be going along to the second auditions anyway; they asked me if I'd come back to read another character.)