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[Madeline]

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[Sven]

[King Edmund]

Be familiar with her background. Where she grew up, what kind of family life she had, her age, live her personality, become her. Our director has been known to ask us questions about our characters background to see if we are doing it and living his or hers personality. Sometime you have to make up extra just to understand the personality. I have never taken a course in acting but I am an actor ([its a hobby of mine] and for my local theater) as well and will be in the play the Music Man. That is what most of us do. We either make up a background for the person or if possible look at thier background if the writers information is available. I hope I have made sense.

[carol]

Try spending time with a family that has children aged 8-13. Watch how the youngest one relates to the others (especially if this is a girl). Read some older british children's classics (1st half of 20th century - ask your librarian).

Best wishes with your audition!

[David]

The thing I always remember about her is that she is the one who "sees him [Aslan] the most." If you are going to play Lucy, you should contemplate someone who is good. Do you know any "good souls," as they are called--people who just by thier very nature are kind, trusting, benevolent to others?

In the film Looking for Richard Al Pacino emphasizes "method acting" as the best way to play Shakespeare--especially for American actors who do not think they can play Shakespeare well because they are not English and don't understand the English acting tradition. Method acting is a technique where actors try to internalize and "become" the roles they play. Trying to understand and identify with the character you will play can be a great help.

[carol]

If you are younger than 15, you probably don't need to do method acting, as you can probably still play "imagining games" where you think yourself into a different character and act, think, speak like her/him. That's half of method acting! The other half is remembering a time you felt an emotion (eg jealousy) in your own real life, and using that memory to show and express jealousy in a play.
If you watch the backgrounder material for the LWW movie, one of them often mentions that Andrew said/did something to get the child actors into a particular mood or feeling. He sometimes got them to think of times they had felt as the character did. That's method acting.

I'd suggest you read LWW again, list things Lucy does, the way she speaks, and how she's feeling. Think about being eight or nine!

[Scott West]

Okay, i have been acting since I was 5. And I have learned one thing, and though many of these suggestions are great, I have one that has worked for me and everyone I know: Be Lucy.
Let me explain. Don't be Madeline acting as Lucy, be Madeline going into a wardrobe, finding a magical land, and salvation. Don't try to do a fake british accent, thats always WAY too cheesy, unless you want the play to be cheesy, but I'm taking itfrom a serious point of view. I too was just in a play of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. Not to be cocky, but I thought I did very well, reason being, not because I might be a good actor (God knows that's not true), but because I have been a complete jerk in my life. I have treated my family like complete crap, I have stabbed my loved ones in the back, but then I found God, and I changed. This isn't a made up thing to make you be a good actor, this is for real. I was King Edmund, The Just. You must be Queen Lucy, The Valient. Good luck. If you want any more advise, you can reach me over AIM, or private message me.

[AslansGirl]

[Larry W.]

Another one of Lucy's traits-- truthfulness. Lewis emphasizes this in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Lucy is so honest that the Professor says to the other children, "How do you know that her story is not true?" After this they no longer question her fantastic story about the world on the other side of the warbrobe. Remember that this is her finest quality when you act her part.

Larry W.

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