profiles now smile more vacantly
completely tastefully no more gracefully
thanks we’ll be in touch with your
agency sorry there wasn’t more for you
to read in fact his steve he’ll be the
lead in this could you give him a quick
kiss no longer linger come on he’s not
that much of a minger let’s see love in
your eyes but you didn’t think you’d be
snogging a handsome guy when you arrived
okay thanks for coming by and I wonder
whether to simply deny the whole things
happening so baffling are these fleeting
meetings in casting rooms passing
through to audition for the parts of
blond number two then paired off with a
guy who says hi like he’s met them all
before as he walks through the door I am
so bored of auditioning for girl at
Party and sexy and arty I am sick of
them asking me to wear an outfit that
sultry but dignified that shows the
outline of my size I know that everybody
lies on their spotlight and I need to
look right for the part but can we call
it art when the part has become
formulaic its archaic life is a mosaic
and acting a way of refracting and
reflecting its shapes so how come the
men always get the higher stakes
the longer takes driving plots in car
chases winning races taking on the
bigger issues while we’re left with the
ones requiring tissues our minds needing
something lighter us always the victim
and never the fighter turning to the
fella in a moment of Terror and asking
what do we do that just isn’t true to
life I do not just see a wife I did not
just see a sister I do not just see a
woman who is accessory to a mr. I see
women centrally
they have been for centuries Shakespeare
knew the tales of Cleopatra and the
shrew are not much ado about nothing
when humanity comprises the coupling of
many genders I am done with endless
chats about whether I’m too quirky
looking for that about whether I can be
seductive with a chest
this flat surely the very matter of
being an actor the art of performing
meaning transforming into something new
something that isn’t completely you and
making it look true I don’t know about
you but I’d like to see something new
lit up in lights and Technicolor telling
the tale of something other something
more something that doesn’t limit me to
being a whore or a prude or something to
be viewed in the nude but only on
occasions when it wouldn’t be considered
rude or prove too tempting for a dude I
don’t want to get to another casting
place and talk about my face when there
won’t actually be a trace of myself if
they’d only let me show them how I play
someone else thank you [Applause]