Falling Birds | original audio drama
EpicureanDream for Kit
Kit Holloway is our protagonist - young, naive, a wide-eyed wannabe artist. He's the type old ladies would describe as a charming young man, but he's really just too anxious to take a wrong step. He's grown up only ever wanting to see the magic in the world, but he's just been hit by a horrible wake-up call to how things can actually be. He's stupidly in love with his childhood friend, Delilah, but they're both too stubborn to admit it.
Kit acts as a narrator to many of the story's events, and so needs to have a subtle distinction between his (internal) monologue/narration and (external) dialogue. For moments of narration, I'd love if the voice could become more hushed, intimate, like a storyteller.
We see Kit between ages 18-22, so his voice will require a youthfulness that can also handle a lot of emotion and nuance.
Voice type:
Medium pitch, smooth, youthful
(wistful, amused, soft) Never really been all that different, have we? All I do is write stories that never go anywhere - only talking about stupid, far-off, romantic things - and you inhabit them. You’re what makes them real.
(furious, explosive, devastated, screaming then fading away) I ALREADY HAD IT! I held her! Kissed her…! She was going to America, and I - I…
(narration, internal) There’s something strange about being on a precipice, isn’t there? A man on the edge with this oddly visceral desire to hurl himself over it. As if the mind’s only reasonable solution to the altitude is to think, ‘well, fuck this’. And – rather than accept defeat to the cliff, or balcony – the body concludes it must simply end itself.
Thanks so much for this, and all your comments - I really appreciate them! Really enjoyed how you picked up on the introspectiveness the story has, which works especially well with the narration - you really nailed the hushed, storyteller 'voice in your head' vibe I was hoping for. Also appreciate your willingness to ad-lib, which is a major part of my own acting style, though I do think you let yourself get a bit carried away with it - particularly on that second line, where I think the explosiveness and rage Kit's experiencing got bogged down somewhat by adding more words. Line 1 I think could afford to be more playful too, upbeat and less like his internal/narrator voice. Overall though, really good job, and thank you again for your time :)