Summer Shakespeare 2010 Auditions

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SUMMER SHAKESPEARE 2010 IS NOW RECRUITING ACTORS, MUSICIANS, DESIGNERS!

Wanted!

Drunken knights

cunning housewives

beautiful daughters

jealous husbands

Thieving scoundrels

pub landlords

page boys

welsh parsons

French physicians

Musicians, servants, attendants, messengers & fairies 

If you’re one of the above, or think yourself capable of becoming one of the above, then the 27th Summer Shakespeare wants YOU to AUDITION for the 2010 production of William Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor – the first time in 89 years that this classic comedy has been performed in Wellington! 

Shakespeare’s famous drunken knight, Sir John Falstaff, proved so popular in his day that he got his very own spin-off show in which he becomes the unwilling prank-monkey of two of the most brilliant, witty, beautiful women in all of Shakespeare – Alice Ford and Meg Page.  The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare’s most ridiculous and accessible comedies.  It’s kind-of a cross between Fawlty Towers, Black Books, Blackadder and your average episode of The Simpsons, only everyone speaks Elizabethan English and at the end a Frenchman accidentally marries a boy. 

Spend a glorious summer outdoors learning how to speak both verse/prose and how to conjure an entire world with the mere power of words!  Rehearsals begin in November, with plenty of time off over Christmas and New Year.  There’ll be a special, all-expenses-paid, all-you-can-eat/drink, no-stress-possible preview season at Gladstone Vineyard in the Wairarapa from February 4-6, followed by a Wellington season under the stars at the Studio 77 Amphitheatre from February 12-27. 

AUDITIONS:

Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October (or by arrangement)

To book an audition time e-mail summershakespearewellington@gmail.com.

[You’ll need to prepare a piece of Shakespeare –  any piece! – and a song – any song! – and tell a joke – any joke!  And if you play an instrument, you might want to bring it and play it!]