How daunting can an audition be? Maybe it really would be better to venture into such a circumstance without any preparation at all. Then it’s just a lark, isn’t it?
Endless preparation can, perhaps, create a note-perfect audition, but what might happen to the spontaneity? How does a panel judge the native voice behind the preparation?
My heart really went out to Katarin in this moment. I felt she was so trapped in her own circumstances, and being unable to communicate would have compounded the challenge.
Then how, or why, one might ask, would she dare to attempt such a brave thing as an audition?
I’d put it down to naiveté, and a kind of foolhardiness, coupled with a certain yen for adventure, for a broadening of mind, which I feel has been a signal component of Katarin’s character. Why, or how else could she have embarked on a year-long sojourn in a British university, without that kind of gumption?
Especially with that stammer.
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