Audition Notification for MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare
Directed by Sarah Sheppard Shaver
Presented by Pikes Peak State College Theatre Department
Performance Dates: Nov 13th-23rd
Audition Dates:
Sept 4th 4:00-8:00pm
Sept 5th 4:00-8:00pm
Tech Interviews: Sept 5th, 9:00-11:00am
Callbacks: Sept 6th 12:00-3:00pm
SIGN UP HERE:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044BA8A92AA7FD0-57966119-amidsummer
PPSC Downtown Campus, Studio West
22 North Sierra Madre
Show up 10 min before to fill out an audition form.
Auditions will consist of readings from the script. If you would like a low-pressure opportunity to practice a professional audition, you should bring a one-page acting resume with a headshot and prepare a two minute Shakespearean monologue. If that’s a little too overwhelming or you don’t know what any of that means, come anyway and just read from the selection provided! Walk-ins welcome!!! We will work in your audition around the people who have slots.
SIDES:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L6jhBHynYb0BnyV1GMJukvTGQgL_Qt5cwn2QfT0b9DE/edit?usp=sharing
We are also looking for folks interested in building sets, designing, stage management, crew, board ops, ushering, etc. If you would like to be involved behind-the-scenes, please sign up for a slot and plan for a tech interview! Feel free to bring a tech resume and/or pictures of past productions or related hobbies.
Auditions open to current and former PPSC students, staff, and faculty. The PPSC Theatre Department is committed to diverse and inclusive casting, so all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, abilities, body types, and ages are welcome!
Please contact
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About the show: Amidst plans for Duke Theseus to marry the Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, four star-crossed lovers escape unwanted engagements, a group of bumbling townsfolk rehearse a play to honor the nuptial celebrations, and the King and Queen of the faeries squabble in a custody battle. Add a mischievous sprite, a misadministrated love potion, and a melodramatic donkey: will what happens in the forest stay in the forest?
Content Advisory: Approximate rating of PG for faeries, love potions, and physical comedy shenanigans. Some gender swapped/inclusive roles and pairings.
Characters:
THE LOVERS:
Hermia
Lysander
Helena
Demetrius
THE COURT:
Theseus: Duke of Athens (doubled with Oberon)
Hippolyta: Queen of the Amazons (doubled with Titania)
Egeus: parent to Hermia (doubled with a Faerie in the entourage)
THE MECHANICALS:
Nick Bottom, weaver
Peter Quince, carpenter
Francis Flute, bellows-mender
Tom Snout, tinker
Snug, joiner
Robin Starveling, tailor
THE FAERIES:
Oberon: king of the Faeries
Titania: queen of the Faeries
Puck or “Robin Goodfellow”: in Oberon’s service
Other Faeries in the entourage of Titania and Oberon
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