AUDITION CALL:
Mercury Players Theatre presents:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Lennox Forrester
Producer and Assistant Director Matt Franklinson
Auditions will be held in the Evjue Theater at the Bartell Theatre June 9 and June 10th at 7pm.
Callbacks are June 11th at the Bartell at 7pm
IF YOU CANNOT MAKE THOSE DATES:
please email
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Rehearsals will begin July 7th with a Sunday – Thursday rehearsal schedule, and the show will open on September 19th - through Oct 4th. Please email
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Prepare one or two classical monologues which will consist of no more than two minutes all together. Reading off a page is allowed and welcome if you do not have a piece memorized, and there will be a small selection of monologues available if you
come unprepared (but please, use these as a last resort).
Read the bottom of this event for the director's note to see how we are doing this version of Hamlet.
Hamlet has been pre-cast and is being played by Stacey Garbarski.
Horatio has been pre-cast and is being played by Brent Holmes.
Roles Available:
Claudius – King of Denmark
Gertrude – Queen of Denmark
Ghost – Hamlet’s father
Polonius – The king’s advisor
Ophelia – A lady of the court, Polonius’ daughter
Laertes – A lord of the court, Polonius’ son and Ophelia’s sibling
Rosencrantz – A courtier, childhood friend of Hamlet
Guildenstern – A courtier, childhood friend of Hamlet
3 – 4 ensemble members who will play smaller speaking roles, which will include
guards, courtiers, the players, and messengers
Note from the Director:
"This Hamlet is a musing on the use of drugs and alcohol and how we react to them, as well as how we use them in everyday life to cope with the environment around us. We will see this production not as we normally would, through the course directed by the original text, but as a memory play. We will do this by centering Horatio as the storyteller – as he gives personal testimony during an addicts anonymous meeting, he guides both the audience and himself through the events that lead to the death of his closest friend and the spiral that first landed him in the meeting.
Each character will have their own relationship with substance use cases, spanning from being completely “straight edge” (Claudius), casual/party use (the Polonius family), prescription abuse (Gertrude), and withdrawal (Hamlet). My hope as a director is not to necessarily villainize any of these stages, but to show them as plainly as one can in a staged environment, as well as hopefully allow the audience to come to a better understanding of how people can find themselves in such places within their own lives."
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