No one knows what passages they have chosen, yet all watch Gann as she slowly rolls the big green ball round her partner. In the next scene she climbs a ladder while her partner walks backwards across the room.

Soon the audition is over—and she hasn’t said a single word. But the silence is broken.

“Call-back lists go up tomorrow,” The Dybbuk staff say.

Audition, Take Two

When asked how she thought the audition went, Gann had a seemingly rehearsed response.

“If you can’t keep attention with the way you move, you will never be able to keep it with lines,” Gann said.

She offers no more evidence of her feelings as she returns to the Ex and engages in some theater gossip. “You should have tried out for that one. You would have been great.” Cell phones ring and Friday night plans are made as actors wait to be called for other shows.

“Calling for HouseBreakHeart,” a girl shouts. This time Gann follows her upstairs.

Director Joy B. Fairfield ’03 sits behind a table scattered with candy.

“I am not so interested in how well you can act,” she says. “Martha Graham said that we each have one specific creative force in the world. Show me yours.”

Gann portrays a Lolita-like character, beginning the monologue she had marked up earlier by seducing the wall, huddling on the floor and reaching towards thin air.

But apparently she has made an impression.

“Are you comfortable cross dressing?”

She says she is.

Although she doesn’t say so, she looks content at her audition, hopping down the stairs. But her work is far from done.