Yesterday I had an audition for a part in Theatresports. It was easy to prepare for, because, well, it’s improv. Preparing would be a bad thing. There are 8 spots available and there are twenty two people trying out for them. So roughly a third of the people will get in.
It didn’t feel that high pressure for me. I’m not sure I deserve to be on stage, but if they want me, I won’t say no. If they don’t want me, well I have a good career as a computer programmer to fall back on.
Looking back I didn’t do too much wrong. I can think of two places where I could have been better. One scene where instead of putting myself in danger, I put someone else there. It was funny, but I should have done it the other way around. In another scene I tried to be clever and did something that would make me look like a bad improviser. It wasn’t too obvious, but it made sense in my head. Unfortunately, the audience wasn’t in my head.
Well, we’ll see what happens.