The melancholy Jaques
Jun. 2nd, 2011 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you were to pick a scene in As You Like It to audition people for the part of Jaques, what would you pick? I kind of want to avoid his big monologues ("All the world's a stage" especially).
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Date: 2011-06-02 05:28 pm (UTC)For lamentation, there's Sebastian's confession from "Comes the Inquisitor", Londo's silliloquy [sic] from "In the Beginning" (both B5).
For nihilism, there's the opening monologue from "Trainspotting" or any monologue from "Fight Club".
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Date: 2011-06-02 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-03 03:05 am (UTC)"A fool in the forest" monologue works, then. Maybe something from Act IV.