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We will be reading through Much Ado About Nothing (scripts provided). If your Valentine is a Kelsey Grammer type and you are more of a Sideshow Bob, great! If you would like to play an individual, or a couple that is together at the beginning or ends up together at the end, all’s well that ends well! Feel free to be as serious or unserious, professional or amateur, costumed or uncostumed as you like!*
Suggested donation: $10 - $25 depending on ability to pay.
*please do still wear clothing if the latter is your choice. We are not that kind of establishment. 🎭
Casting will be gender-blind in the spirit of the historical performances, and assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. I will post the character list and put asterisks by each part as it is claimed in the comments! Hope to see you there!
Beatrice – Leonato’s niece and Hero’s cousin, Beatrice is “a pleasant-spirited lady” with a very sharp tongue. She is generous and loving, but, like Benedick, continually mocks other people with elaborately tooled jokes and puns. She wages a war of wits against Benedick and often wins the battles.
Benedick – An aristocratic soldier and a friend of Don Pedro and Claudio. Benedick is very witty, always making jokes and puns. He carries on a “merry war” of wits with Beatrice, but at the beginning of the play he swears he will never fall in love or marry.
Claudio – A young soldier who has won great acclaim fighting under Don Pedro during the recent wars. Claudio falls in love with Hero upon his return to Messina.
Hero – The beautiful young daughter of Leonato and the cousin of Beatrice. Hero is lovely, gentle, and kind. She falls in love with Claudio when he falls for her, but when Don John slanders her and Claudio rashly takes revenge, she suffers terribly.
***Don Pedro – An important nobleman from Aragon, sometimes referred to as “Prince.” Don Pedro is a longtime friend of Leonato, Hero’s father, and is also close to the soldiers who have been fighting under him—the younger Benedick and the very young Claudio.***
Leonato – A respected, well-to-do, elderly noble at whose home, in Messina, Italy, the action is set. Leonato is the father of Hero and the uncle of Beatrice.
Don John – The illegitimate brother of Don Pedro; sometimes called “the Bastard.” Don John is melancholy and sullen by nature, and he creates a dark scheme to ruin the happiness of Hero and Claudio. He is the villain of the play.
Dogberry – The constable in charge of the Watch, or chief policeman of Messina. Dogberry is very sincere and takes his job seriously, but he has a habit of using exactly the wrong words to convey his meaning.
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