and I remember immediately thinking, "But...if we don't train more women, how will those real world opportunities ever stop favoring men?" Every man from my school who went to grad school auditions got multiple callbacks. The women were lucky to get one. And to get one, they had to fit a theatre archetype. I did this monologue from El Cid. In it, Chimene is seeking vengeance for her father's death, while trying (and failing) to be respectful to the king, and to fight through horror and sorrow: