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Audition
Information Fairmount Performing
Arts Conservatory [FPAC] A
Midsummer Night’s Dream By William Shakespeare Directed by Mitchell B.
Fields Audition Dates, Times,
Appointments and Location: Saturday September 6th 1:00pm until 5:00pm Sunday September 7th 12:00pm until 2:00pm
Callbacks will be held on September 7th from 2:00 – 5:00pm at Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center, 6622 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village
Appointments will be accepted by calling 440-338-3171 starting on August 12, 2008.
Audition Preparation: Please prepare a one minute
monologue from a Shakespearian play that is not from A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. About the Play: Check out information on
Wikeipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream Roles Available: Ages 12 through 22 The men and women in the play of high social class: Lysander, beloved of Hermia Hermia, beloved of Lysander, engaged to Demetrius Helena, in love with Demetrius Demetrius, in love with Hermia but then falls in love with Helena later on. Engaged to Hermia Egeus, father of Hermia, wants to force Hermia to wed Demetrius Theseus, Duke of Athens, good friend of Egeus Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and betrothed of Theseus The lower-class citizens in the play: Philostrate, Master of the Revels for
Theseus The acting troupe (otherwise known as The Mechanicals): Peter Quince, carpenter, who leads the troupe Nick Bottom, weaver; he plays Pyramus in the troupe's production of "Pyramus and Thisbe," and gets a donkey head put on him by Puck so that Titania will magically fall in love with a monster. Francis Flute, the bellows-mender who plays Thisbe. Robin Starveling, the tailor who plays Moonshine. Tom Snout, the tinker who plays the wall. Snug, the joiner who plays the lion.
The supernatural characters: Puck, a.k.a. Hobgoblin or Robin Goodfellow; a faun, servant to Oberon Oberon, King of Fairies Titania, Queen of Fairies Titania's fairy servants (her "train"): First Fairy Peaseblossom, fairy Cobweb, fairy Moth (sometimes rendered as 'Mote') fairy Mustardseed, fairy Rehearsal Information
Rehearsals begin the week of
September 22 and continue through November 13, 4 to 6 days a week. Rehearsals on Mondays and Wednesdays
will be from 7:30 pm - 9:30pm . On Tuesdays and Thursdays will be from 4:00pm -
6:30pm. On Sundays rehearsals will be from 1:00pm - 5:00pm. Not everyone will be
called to every rehearsal until the final two weeks. (Beginning November 2)
Please be prepared to list all conflicts at the time of the audition. From the
conflicts listed the director will determine the rehearsal schedule, which
hopefully will not be altered. The early rehearsals will take the form of a
seminar on acting the works of William Shakespeare. Performance Dates: November 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23. Two performances on November 16 and 23.
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