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Peter Pan Auditions Week

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Over the week we had off I was learning Hook's monologue as the character I wanted to go for was him. During the week off, I kept going over Hook's song as it was easier for me to get the voice from it and when I felt comfortable that I had my interpretation of Hook, taking inspiration from Dustin Hoffman's Hook from the 1991 film "Hook", I then moved onto to tackle his monologue. First look at I was scared for myself, I was struggling to understand it as he goes Shakespearean  so I started researching what some words or lines that he would say meant back then and what they would mean today so that I could be prepared and show that I know the character. I also struggled with his emotion with it being such a big chunky piece of text (since it was a monologue) and because he changes emotions threw out it a couple of times and you also need to remember on top of him being serious there's a bit of comedy involved in it as well.  At first I was struggling for it to