<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><b>William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream</b></div><div style="text-align:center">Translated by Jeff Whitty</div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Produced by Chagrin Arts at Solon Community Park August 6-7 and August 13-14</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Directed by Derdriu Ring</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center">Last call for Mischievous Fairies and Rude Mechanicals to be included in this magical production!</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Please create your video audition horizontally in HD. </b></div><div style="text-align:center">State your name, your preferred pronouns and dazzle us with a 2 minute classical monologue a 16 bar a capella song which </div><div style="text-align:center">can be as simple as "Happy Birthday"</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Submit your audition ( resume and headshot a plus but not required)  to  </b>Megan Mingus at <a href="mailto:mmingus@chagrinarts.org" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">mmingus@chagrinarts.org</a><b> by April 19 at 11:59 pm.</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center">. <b>Submissions from actors of any race, ethnicity, disability status, gender or gender identity are encouraged. </b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>This is a paying gig and actors will be paid at the final performance.</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Callbacks: </b>April 21  6-9 pm and May 1 6-9 pm at Chagrin Arts, 88 North Main Street in Chagrin Falls</div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Rehearsal Dates : </b>June 27 through August 5th  time tbd at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 7169 SOM Center Road in Solon</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><blockquote type="cite" style="text-align:start;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_3429180732858465741gmail-docs-internal-guid-9abfbeee-7fff-5b29-e684-45eff16be273"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cast Breakdown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theseus </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (also plays </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oberon)</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Male-identifying.The</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span>Duke<span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 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. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Egeus</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (also plays </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fairy</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) All genders. A courtier </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> at Theseus’s court and his master of revels. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Philostrate</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (also plays </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Puck</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) All genders. Theseus’s </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hippolyta</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Queen of the Amazons (Also plays </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Titania)</span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Female-Identifying.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Having been defeated in battle by Theseus, she is now betrothed to him. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lysander </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Male-identifying. A young man of Athens,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> of good family and fortune.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Demetrius</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Male-identifying. Not the most admirable of young men. Having wooed Helena and won her heart, he shifts his </span>attentions<span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> to Hermia, who will have none of him, but whose father favors him. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hermia </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Female Identifying. Egeus’s daughter. In </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> love with Lysander, she refuses to marry Demetrius despite the threat of death for her refusal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Rude Mechanicals/Parks and Recreation Workers</b></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Helena </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Female Identifying. A young lady of Athens.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> She was wooed and rejected by Demetrius and remains in love with him. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Peter Quince </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All genders. A carpenter with literary</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 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).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> NickBottom </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Male Identifying-The weaver, a take-charge </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> sort of person, who wishes to play all the parts he can in Quince’s play. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Francis Flute</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ( also plays </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cobweb</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) All genders.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> A bellows-mender, a young person whose facial hair is only just beginning to grow.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tom Snout</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ( also plays </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peaseblossom</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) All genders.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> A tinker cast as Pyramus’s father and the Wall in Quince’s play. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Snug </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">( Also plays </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2nd Fairy </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Moth) </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All Genders. The joiner is not</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> the most quick-witted of fellows, and is therefore cast as the lion to avoid his having to learn lines. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Robin Starveling </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Also plays </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mustard Seed</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) All Genders- This tailor portrays Moonshine in Quince’s play. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>The Fairies</b></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Oberon </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> King of Fairies. Male-Identifying- Proud,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> angry, and vengeful, he quarrels with Titania for the sake of a changeling boy, and on being refused decides to humiliate her into obedience. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Titania </span><span style="text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Queen of Fairies. Female- Identifying.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Sensual, earthy and powerful. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Her quarrel with Oberon disturbs nature, but she still refuses to give up the boy who is at the quarrel’s root. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Puck </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 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.</span></p></span></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center">Additional questions? Send them to  Megan at <a href="mailto:mmingus@chagrinarts.org" target="_blank">mmingus@chagrinarts.org</a> as well.</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></div></div></div>