don’t feel comfortable, that’s fine, but be aware that you will be reducing possible
casting options, as some character will have explicit sex scenes (for example, Neena
Brando in seaason 1.)
If you are comfortable with performing both masculine & feminine characters, please
do this TWICE, 0nce in a masculine voice and once in a feminine voice. Please record
this as two separate audio files, and then name them appropriately.
Example:
AlysharaFemme.mp4
AlysharaMasc.mp4Art Direction: Please read this with as much or little emotion as you deem appropriate.
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no
money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would
sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the
spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the
mouth, whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, whenever I find myself
involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every
funeral I meet, and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it
requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the
street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to
sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical
flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword, I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing
surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other,
cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian
isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take
you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed
