Central Audition

Hello World!  So I had a very interesting experience at my Central audition. Overall the audition was a very fun one to be in even though we didn't get to perform all of the pieces that they asked us to prepare.

So when we first showed up, we were all put into one big waiting room and had a small chat about the program and the structure of the auditions. We then divided into rooms based on the program that we were applying for.  Once in the BA acting room, we sat in a circle and the woman who was auditioning us (who was actually the head of MA screen acting) talked about the three different BA strands at Central- Acting, Musical Theater, and Creative and Devised Theater. We then got up and had a really long really fun time doing a group warm up and playing games.  We did things like walking around the space and stopping and starting as an ensemble, we also had to embody different elements and colors, and then did some breathing exercises.

We then sat down on either side of the room and were told the order that we would be performing in.  We were told that when we got up, we were to state our name, the strand we were interested in, and the names of the two pieces we would be doing (one contemporary and one classical).  I did a monologue from Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and one from Henry VI Part 3.  Overall, I thought the group was incredibly important and there were some really amazing performances. I thought that I performed quite well for how nervous I was.  We then were told to head back into the room we were originally held in for a question and answer session about the program, visas, life in London and any other questions that we had. Then the woman who checked us in at the start came in to read the list of people who got callbacks. She read the names of the MA auditioners first and then read the list from the BA. 

Now, here is the part that made me a little big angry at the way that they organized the announcing of the callbacks.  My name was on the list of people who got called back, so I stayed and waited in the room with the six others to hear what our time was to do the callback.  Then the woman who auditioned us came into the room with one of the auditioners who didn't get called back and told her that her name should have been on the list. The woman with the list then began giving out the times and got to one girl who's name she had called but was not on the callback list. Unfortunately the same thing happened to me. So in the end I did not receive a callback along with another girl who was originally told she had one.  I just wish that they had double checked the names before they read them out.

Looking at the big picture, it was a fun and instructive day but there was definitely a larger amount of disappointment in me than there would have been if my name had never been called.  Tomorrow I have Juilliard's audition so keep your eyes out for that post!