The Moors -- Callback List & Monologues

Hello Auditioners --

Thank you all for your audition submissions. I have a few callback requests.

To the Actors mentioned below:

By next Tuesday at 5pm (5/25/2021)

please submit a video of yourself doing the assigned monologue.

Please upload the videos to this padlet link:

https://padlet.com/caseyseymourkim/8pt3bbzeoyny293i

or send a YouTube/Vimeo/Whathaveyou link to casey.seymourkim@gmail.com.

(If you have any questions, please also use this email.)

Thank you!

Lindsey Ashworth -- 2

Sierra Candeias -- 2

Molly Donovan -- 2

Sofia DaSilva -- 3

Autumn Jefferson -- 2

Scarling Ferrera -- 2

Abby McGough -- 3

Aimee Meunier -- 2

Sage Peres -- 3

Mackenzie Richard -- 1

Samantha Schleifer -- 1

Myranda Silva -- 2

Eliza Vecchiarelli -- 1

If you want a separate document with the monologues/character descriptions, here is a google doc link (it should be viewable for everyone with the link):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dAw2_nNFLpeNzCG1Vk7KCEC4XjVUebkiA7kecIJ_OQo/edit

All of these Characters, while very different from each other, have a burning passion within them. This doesn’t mean that there is something outrageous or cartoonish about them, but there is some strong sense of yearning underneath their public persona.

1. AGATHA 

Female, Elder spinster sister. Spidery. Dangerous. Powerful.

I cannot stand weakness. I cannot stand it in myself, and I cannot abide it in others.

There is no weakness in the moors.

When I come out here, I am surrounded by merciless strength.

And that is a common fallacy. that strength on the part of humans is cruelty. Here upon the moors, do you think one is coddled? No. A bird or a fox or a dragonfly, it must survive from sheer strength and will alone. And does one call the moors "cruel"? "Heartless"? No. One accepts them for what they are. Inhospitable, perhaps. But that is their nature. One accepts that nature -- and only by accepting, nay, embracing it, can one truly be at home here.

2. HULDEY

Female, Younger spinster sister. She has a diary. She wants to be famous.

Kill. I... Kill?

I'd be the sister who killed her sister. It would be shocking and horrible and nobody would stop talking about it. I'd be infamous. IN...famous.

People always do seem to want to know these things. And I of course should feel very strongly about my privacy, and wouldn't want any of that sort of vulgar crowd in my parlor. Drinking my tea and asking me such intimate questions.

(Dreaming a little) How I feel. What it all means. Where I think I'm going in my life next, and do I think it was because I lacked love as a child, which of course is true. I did lack love as a child, what an astute question.

Everything around here is so bleak. So loveless and bleak. And if I were to kill Agatha -- and I'm not saying I would, of course -- but if I were, it would sort of be a ... splash of color. Monday: Everything was gray and cold and then all of a sudden -- BAM!

(A revelation) They might write a song about it!

This is the best day I've ever had.

3. EMILIE

Female, the Governess. A romantic with a sweet face.

I’ve never felt the way I felt when I read your letters. I’ve never felt that way in my whole life.

You are very much like the man you pretended to be in those letters. The man in the letters was merciless, and you are merciless. He was overly bold, and your eyes are bold. He doled out kindness sparingly so I was hungry for it, and this is what you do as well--I know you are doing it and yet I still find myself willing to do almost anything for a moment of that kindness.

The man in the letters was a strategist, Agatha, and that is exactly what you are.