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Seeking
AEA Actors for various principal roles.
see breakdown.
Preparation
see breakdown for preparation instructions
Other Dates
First rehearsal: July 21, 2015
Opening date: August 13, 2015
Closing date: August 23, 2015
Other
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Personnel
By William Shakespeare
Director, Jeffrey Frace’
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Email development@operahousearts.org between the hours of 11 and 5, Tuesday-Friday, for an appointment.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please prepare:
1 Shakespearean monologue, 1-2 minutes.
1 song that must be adapting to one of the following scenarios: a drinking song, a lullaby, a below-the-window serenade of love, a private love confession, or a burlesque performance. 1-3 minutes. The song can be a cappella, self-accompanied on an instrument, or a karaoke track on a portable player, but do align your accompaniment with your scenario.
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For these plays we are seeking versatile actors with solid training in Shakespeare, who can embody the spirit and style of these roles. Some doubling is a possibility. We are looking for actors who excel in physical comedy, familiarity with clowning or commedia and singing is a plus. All races/ethnicities strongly encouraged.
All roles require a sense of humor risk-taking, and collaborative spirit
SEEKING:
Mistress Ford
A resident of Windsor, Mistress Ford is married to Ford and is a friend of Mistress Page. When she and Mistress Page receive a seductive letter from Falstaff, they decide to lead him on and ruin him. In the meantime, Mistress Ford hopes to prove to her husband that she is entirely faithful, so that he will get over his oppressive jealousy.
Mistress Page
A resident of Windsor, Mistress Page is married to Page and is a friend of Mistress Ford. When she and Mistress Ford receive a seductive letter from Falstaff, they decide to lead him on and ruin him. Meanwhile, Mistress Page and her husband disagree about who should marry their daughter, Anne Page. She favors Caius, but her husband favors Slender; Anne herself likes neither. However, both must learn the lesson to listen to the romantic desires of their daughter.
Falstaff
Falstaff is a knight, but he is also a scoundrel and occasionally a thief. In Henry IV, Part I , he was a drinking buddy of the young Prince Henry. Falstaff is boisterous, lively, cowardly, funny, and mischievous; he is one of Shakespeare's most beloved creations, appearing in several of his plays. In Wives,outside his element in the countryside, Falstaff thinks he can get away with seducing married women in order to gain access to their husbands' cash. Hence he launches a plan to seduce Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. However, they are cleverer than he is and, on three separate occasions, cause him to be humiliated, beaten, or dunked in a river.
Ford
Husband of Mistress Ford. Ford is very jealous of his wife. When he learns that Falstaff intends to try to seduce his wife, he is sure she'll fall for Falstaff and shame him. Hence he puts on a disguise, calls himself Brooke, and goes to the Garter Inn to find out about Falstaff's plans and his wife's responses. During theplay, he must learn to let go of his jealousy, which he eventually manages to do.
Page
Husband of Mistress Page. Page is not jealous of his wife, so when he hears about Falstaff's plan, he doesn't think she's likely to find Falstaff interesting. In comparison to Ford, his easygoing attitude makes him look like a wonderful husband, but he has other problems. He and his wife disagree about who should marry their daughter Anne, and neither are able to choose the suitor she likes, namely Fenton. He must learn that he should listen to his daughter's opinions.
Sir Hugh Evans
Sir Hugh Evans is the local clergyman. He's Welsh, so he speaks in an accent that the other English citizens find very amusing. They make fun of him constantly for it; finallyhe and Caius band together to humiliate the Host after he makes fools of them.
Caius
The local doctor, Caius is Mistress Quickly's master. He is French, so he suffers the same humiliation as Evans because of his accent and broken English. He hopes to marry Anne Page, and Mistress Page favors him, but Page doesn't, and their conflicting schemes--combined with the fact that Anne does not like him--disrupt his marriage plans. He and Evans also make plans to get back at the Host for making fun of them.
Mistress Quickly
Caius's servant, Mistress Quickly is everyone's messenger. She goes to Falstaff at the behest of Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, and she speaks to Anne Page on behalf of all three of her suitors. Yet she prefers Fenton and supports his suit most readily. Mistress Quickly chronically misunderstands or mishears other people, hearing sexually charged conversations where there are none.
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