MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING / ELIZABETH REX
– Equity Stage Manager Job Notice
Opera House Arts Stonington ME SPT ASM weekly minimum: $400.
Artistic Dir: Judith Jerome
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by Shakespeare. Dir: Cynthia Croot.
ELIZABETH REX by Timothy Findley. Dir: Peter Richards.
1st rep reh: 5/23/11. MUCH ADO opens 6/30. ELIZABETH REX opens 7/7. Rep closes 7/17.
To be considered, send resume and brief cover note to
Judith Jerome, Artistic Director
Stonington Opera House
PO Box 56
Stonington ME 04681,
or attend the 3/18/11 Equity Principal Auditions (bring resume) to be interviewed briefly.
See separate EPA notice.
Queen Elizabeth I of England was to behead her lover, the Earl of Essex, in the early morning hours of Ash Wednesday, 1601. On the eve of his execution, it is known that Elizabeth called Shakespeare and his actors—the Lord Chamberlain’s Men—to perform in one of her palaces. She sought distraction from the torment of what her royal duty had forced her to do. ELIZABETH REX imagines that the play performed that night was MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. A curfew prevents the actors in Shakespeare’s troupe from returning to London, so instead, they decamp to a barn on the palace grounds, where Queen Elizabeth pays them an unexpected visit. ELIZABETH REX is the fictional story of what transpired in the barn that night.
Opera House Arts will stage both plays as a single theatrical event. The plays will run in repertory with “marathon” performances on weekends. MUCH ADO will be set in Elizabethan times—that is, on Shrove Tuesday, 1601—and will be presented as if Shakespeare’s troupe were performing for Queen Elizabeth and her court (the audience). ELIZABETH REX will be a site-specific production, performed in a barn.
Seeking Equity Assistant Stage Manager.
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