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<span style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">The Geauga Center for the Arts is proud to announce its Summer Shakespeare Production:</span><span style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)"> </span><i style="color:rgb(28, 43, 51);font-family:"inherit", serif">A
Midsummer Night's Dream</i><span style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">! </span><br>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Written by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Cipra.</span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Performances will be Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings from June 30th through July 8th at the Frances S. Hall Amphitheater in Big Creek Park in Geauga
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<b>Auditions:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Auditions will be held at 106 Water Street, Chardon (the building across from the theater) on Sunday, April 2, at 2:00 pm and Monday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Callbacks, if needed, will be Wednesday, April 5, 6:30 p.m. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Auditioners should prepare a 1-2 minute Shakespearean monologue and be prepared to read from the script. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">The play requires 14 adults and late teens. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Note that in this production Bottom will be a woman ("Nell Bottom" instead of "Nick Bottom"). As a result, the roles of Oberon and Titania will be also be
altered: Oberon (still male) will have all of Titania's interactions with Bottom; Titania (female) will have all of Oberon's interactions with Puck and the lovers. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Oberon / Theseus (doubled). Male </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Titania / Hippolyta (doubled). Female </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Oberon and Titania are the ageless and vigorous King and Queen of the Fairies; Theseus and Hippolyta are adult humans, the Duke of Athens and Queen of the
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Bottom, an Athenian weaver. Female. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Five Mechanicals (artisans) of Athens. Any age, any gender. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena - four young lovers, male and female. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Egeus, Hermia's father and master of the revels for Theseus. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">Puck (Robin Goodfellow). Mischievous spirit. Any age, any gender. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"inherit", serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(28, 43, 51)">For questions, contact Mark Cipra at cipram@sbcglobal.net.</span></p>
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