UNDERSTUDY [Visual Novel]
MJ Chestang for Maya Kitagawa
A sophomore chemistry major cast as Lady MacBeth. Shy and naive offstage, but onstage she shines with talent and passion. She's kind, caring, and friendly to everyone, and is just discovering her love for acting. She admires Isabelle deeply.
Voice: Medium-high, soft and sweet with a nervous stutter, but capable of sounding regal and dramatic as Lady Macbeth.
Actor must be capable of performing Maya in both her normal speaking voice and in the role of Lady Macbeth, which requires reading Shakespearean dialogue. Must be capable of doing Really Bad Shakespeare as well as pretty good Shakespeare.
- english
- female young adult
- video game
- visualnovel
- shakespeare
(nervous, admiring, excited) "Um, you're... Isabelle, right? You were amazing as Carmilla last semester! I wanted to say something after the show, but I was too nervous... I hope it's okay to say it now."
(do two readings of this Act 1 Scene 5 passage in character as Lady Macbeth-- one "bad" reading (awkward, stuttering, poorly acted) and one "good" reading (confident, dramatic, in-character).) "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty."
