[NEohioPAL] Video Audition Notice: Last Call for Chagrin Arts Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream This August!

[Margaret Reardon]

*William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream*
Translated by Jeff Whitty
*Produced by Chagrin Arts at Solon Community Park August 6-7 and August
13-14*
*Directed by Derdriu Ring*

Last call for Mischievous Fairies and Rude Mechanicals to be included in
this magical production!

*Please create your video audition horizontally in HD. *
State your name, your preferred pronouns and dazzle us with a 2 minute
classical monologue a 16 bar a capella song which
can be as simple as "Happy Birthday"

*Submit your audition ( resume and headshot a plus but not required)
to  *Megan
Mingus at mmingus at chagrinarts.org* by April 19 at 11:59 pm.*
. *Submissions from actors of any race, ethnicity, disability status,
gender or gender identity are encouraged. *
*This is a paying gig and actors will be paid at the final performance.*

*Callbacks: *April 21  6-9 pm and May 1 6-9 pm at Chagrin Arts, 88 North
Main Street in Chagrin Falls
*Rehearsal Dates : *June 27 through August 5th  time tbd at Our
Redeemer Lutheran Church, 7169 SOM Center Road in Solon

Cast Breakdown

Theseus  (also plays Oberon) Male-identifying.The Duke of Athens, has
recently won a war against the Amazons, and to reward himself for his
victory is going to marry their queen Hippolyta, whether she likes it or
not.

Egeus (also plays Fairy) All genders. A courtier  at Theseus’s court and
his master of revels.

Philostrate (also plays Puck) All genders. Theseus’s  Master of the Revels.
The Duke sends him to encourage everybody in Athens to celebrate his
wedding and have a festive time during the four days leading up to the
ceremony.

 Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons (Also plays Titania) Female-Identifying. Having
been defeated in battle by Theseus, she is now betrothed to him.

Lysander Male-identifying. A young man of Athens, of good family and
fortune.

Demetrius Male-identifying. Not the most admirable of young men. Having
wooed Helena and won her heart, he shifts his attentions to Hermia, who
will have none of him, but whose father favors him.

Hermia Female Identifying. Egeus’s daughter. In  love with Lysander, she
refuses to marry Demetrius despite the threat of death for her refusal.


*Rude Mechanicals/Parks and Recreation Workers*

 Helena Female Identifying. A young lady of Athens. She was wooed and
rejected by Demetrius and remains in love with him.

Peter Quince All genders. A carpenter with literary pretensions who
organizes some fellow workers into preparing a play he has written to
present to Theseus and Hippolyta on their wedding day (in which he presents
the Prologue).

 NickBottom Male Identifying-The weaver, a take-charge  sort of person, who
wishes to play all the parts he can in Quince’s play.

Francis Flute ( also plays Cobweb) All genders. A bellows-mender, a young
person whose facial hair is only just beginning to grow.

Tom Snout ( also plays Peaseblossom) All genders. A tinker cast as
Pyramus’s father and the Wall in Quince’s play.

Snug ( Also plays 2nd Fairy and Moth) All Genders. The joiner is not the
most quick-witted of fellows, and is therefore cast as the lion to avoid
his having to learn lines.

Robin Starveling  (Also plays Mustard Seed) All Genders- This tailor
portrays Moonshine in Quince’s play.


*The Fairies*

 Oberon  King of Fairies. Male-Identifying- Proud, angry, and vengeful, he
quarrels with Titania for the sake of a changeling boy, and on being
refused decides to humiliate her into obedience.

Titania  Queen of Fairies. Female- Identifying. Sensual, earthy and
powerful. Her quarrel with Oberon disturbs nature, but she still refuses to
give up the boy who is at the quarrel’s root.

Puck  All Genders. Also known as Robin Goodfellow, is an amoral prankster
of a spirit. Oberon’s jester, it delights in practical jokes, transforming
Bottom for a lark and making him the object of Titania’s love.


Additional questions? Send them to  Megan at mmingus at chagrinarts.org as
well.
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