Auditions for Actors
Bicton Watson
The title of
the play is Sucker Punch, which was written by Roy Williams.
This play is
about two black teenage boys (Leon and Troy) that live in North London. One
night they broke into a boxing gym and got caught by the owner. The boys plead
to the owner (Charlie Maggs) not to call the police, so instead they cleaned
the gym. The two boys Leon and Troy got into an argument in the gym and started
fighting. Charlie saw them and was impressed, so he gave both of them a chance
to fight in his gym and they became amateur boxers. Troy soon rebels and he
gets ejected from the gym by Charlie. He moved to America where he gets a boxing reputation.
Charlie's daughter and Leon
begin an affair, but when Charlie discovers this he objects at the idea of his
daughter associating with a black man, forcing Leon to choose between training
and his daughter. He leaves her and tries to fit in with the white community
but is family detests this. Later on, Troy returns with a new manipulative
manager and they both are forced to fight each other.
They genre
of this play is 1980s Drama . The
character I have chosen is Leon Davidson. I chose him because he fits my
castibility. He is black, British, lives in North London and speaks in the same
way I do.
I love this
play because it is really interesting. The characters and the plot appeal to
me. I love the plot of the play to have a mixture of black and white people
doing the same thing. It just appeals to me. I love to see black and white
races coming together as one. My character, Leon appeals to me because it is
nice to see a black boy achieving is goals and it gets me motivated as I have
goals which I would love to reach.
There are
quite a number of similarities between my character and myself. The fact is
that we both are from Jamaican backgrounds, so I comprehend the way his father
talks to him about doing what he wants to do.
We both talk in the same way, not in terms if slang but in dialect. We
also share equal goals of being somewhere good in life and he achieving a
boxing title also is a similarity of me getting an award. Differences between
Leon and Is that he has a muscular look
because he is involve in an extreme sport as boxing, while I am not because I
am involved in football which does not require the as much effort. He can be
difficult to work with at times, because he his stubborn but I am really
cooperative. He talks to his father as a friend but I have to be mindful of how
I talk to my father.
In playing
this role, the biggest challenge is being difficult to work with. I am always
cooperative hence I see this as a challenge. Also being able to skip around in
a boxing stance, because in doing my monologue, I have to be able to show what
I am talking about which is going to be a boxing match.
In playing this character, I need to working
on using my hands in the right way when sparring. I also have to be able to say
my monologue while I am moving around, so I will need some stamina.
Vocally,
when playing this character, I need to know how to breathe while speaking and
the ability to project my voice and not focus on actions only, but balance
between the two.
Emotionally, when playing this character, I
need to be able show different emotions when doing my monologue because there
are sad emotions, fear and happiness all in one monologue.
Background
research- Leon Davidson was born in and grew in Tottenham, North London. He is in his late teens. Leon is black, tall
and medium built. He lives with only his father, Squid, who hates white people.
Leon and his father usually have arguments because Leon has a white person’s
attitude and behaviour. His mother died at a very young age. Leon makes trouble
by fighting policemen and breaking into people’s property with his friend Troy.
Leon have a Jamaican background, so, at times, he speaks in the dialect. They
usually
This piece
should show the audience that back in the 1980s black boys could make
themselves useful in the society and that they still can today. This should
show the audience how black boys can succeed in anything even though they are
not expected to and how they were classed as stereotypical black boys. Also it
shows how people can change their attitude and behaviour.
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