How to Audition

Submit the audition form and any dramatic monologue HERE as soon as possible.

We will subsequently contact you with next steps. You may ask you to read the original poem PATTERNS. Please select any section of PATTERNS and interpret it in the framework of an interior monologue. Be daring! Remember, this is not a recitation. This is about "being" in a swirl of colliding moments, past present and future.

Role Descriptions

• Young Woman: fiery, mercurial, and capable of profound stillness.

• Ancestor: imagine: a lone figure in a vast seascape. She is almost translucent –– a silhouette –– mythic. Dressed in black with white, silken hair tied back. She leans delicately on a cane. In spite of a fierce wind, she holds her stillness. She has retained her elegance, regal, yet austere, a woman of stature. This role has been added to this adaptation, who mirrors and challenges her younger counterpart. In the encounters between the two women –– a confluence of souls –– emotions are unleashed as their parallel realities intermingle, conflict and ultimately become one.

• Narrator: another aspect of the soundscape –– the voice that describes the imagined landscapes as well as the men’s voices.

This adaptation challenges conventional interpretations of PATTERNS by presenting Lowell's narrative through a re-focused lens. With her prescient, contemporary female gaze, Lowell depicts the Young Woman protagonist as courageous, fiery and rebellious. In reaction to news of an unbearably tragic loss, she rejects 'the rules of the game', and in a split-second, determines to live the rest of her life within an imagined realm of the psyche. In her self-designed sanctuary, the Young Woman will retain her independence and purity, while having access to her passions, free of the intrusions and expectations of a closed 18th century society. 

An Elder/Ancestor has been added, who mirrors and challenges her younger counterpart. In the encounters between the two women –– a confluence of souls –– emotions are unleashed as their parallel realities intermingle, conflict and become one.

PATTERNS is an interior monologue, not a recitation. By choosing to ‘walk the patterned garden path’ alone, Lowell is insisting that the Young Woman's choice is exquisite self-knowing coupled with righteous anger and agency over her life. She is the essence of audacious authenticity. 

The words of the poem are a layered soundscape, coupling the Young Woman and her Ancestor in a concerto of rhythms –– an ensemble of reflections and fragmented time-collapsing wisps of past, present and future. 

Lowell's message is a warning to the 'patterned’ patriarchy, as she inspires women to claim their sovereignty. In so doing, Lowell's unique voice gives credence to all women, both ancestral and contemporary. (Meryl Joseph, 2024)