CHAPTER 7 - PART 2:
That afternoon Ashley made sure that Seth nor Marissa, Summer, Luke or Brian would bother her. She had told each one of them she had to get home early, but she hadn't. Instead she went to the auditorium. She was already late; it was fifteen minutes past four and the door was closed. But she had been exploring the room earlier and she knew another door that led to the place. The backdoor people use to get on the stage.
She quickly walked further and turned around at the corner. Spotting the back door was a little open, like expected, she walked closer. Peeking is she saw she no-one inside. She quickly sneaked in and walked to one of the dark corners of the back stage. One from which she had a perfect view on the stage and the persons auditioning.
"I have looked upon the world for four times seven years, and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself."
Ashley sighed when she heard the familiar sentence and in her head the scene already unfolded. She realized she hadn't miss much. The auditions for the first character - Iago - were still held and there was lots of fun for her to come. She saw a little chair nearby and pulled it closer. Making herself comfortable she watched the guys that wanted to become Iago. She saw one that immediately caught her eye. His appearance was exactly how she always imagined the ensign.
"Virtue? a fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus."
When he spoke, Ashley knew this was the guy. He just had to become Iago. She watched him playing out his scene intensely. She loved acting, but watching someone doing it who actually seemed to be knowing what he did what almost just as satisfying to her.
When the guy was done eight others played out Iago scenes they learned by heart. Some of them did this very bad, one made it into a hilarious comedy and two were actually pretty good. But not as good as the guy she loved from the moment she saw him. She wished he'd get the part so she could watch him explore his character more often.
But she had to wait before they were gonna say who won the role. First the auditions for Roderigo, Brabantio, Othello and Cassio were held. At each of the first three auditions she saw one guy jumping out of the others again.
Finally casting for Cassio started. A very complex character to the one she loved so dearly; Desdemona. She always had imagined him a certain way and she didn't want that image to fall apart. But she knew the guy that was going to be chosen never could live up to that image. Few guys went on stage and did an okay audition and Ashley thought she was right. The right guy wasn't among them.
Suddenly a guy went on the stage and the girls in the audience - who probably wanted to audition for the part of Desdemona - went wild. Ashley rolled her eyes wen she saw him waving and giving hand kisses to the girls. He acted like he was some kind of celebrity and he wasn't even chosen for the part in the high school play yet. 'Macho', she thought. 'He probably can't even act.'
"This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; for he was great of heart."
Ashley couldn't believe it. But when the guy opened his mouth it was like magic happened. There was no macho high school kid anymore, but Cassio; Othello's lieutenant. When he was finished Ashley had to keep herself from clapping out loud; she didn't want to be discovered. Instead she watched him slowly making his way down the stage and they all wait for the final words for the first audition day. Who were gonna get the parts? She was almost as nervous as the guys who auditioned.