WALK THE NIGHT: VISIONS OF SHADOWS - Chicago EPA
Blue Barn Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Aug 06, 2016
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm (CDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Please contact Spencer Williams: 949-275-4932 or spencejw@gmail.com.
CONTRACT
Guest Artist
$350/week
SEEKING
Female actors (ethnicity, age, and type not specific) to play a devised role based on Oberon /Hippolyta, in an immersive adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
PREPARATION
Please bring a classic monologue of your choice and an open mind! We will also collaborate on excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene 2, lines 60-195.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W. Randolph Street
1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60661
1st Floor Member Center. Dial 011 at front door.
PERSONNEL
Director/Exec Producer: Spencer Williams? Producing Artistic Director: Susan Clement
OTHER DATES
Rehearses August 22-September 27? Performs September 28 - October 30 (*possible* 1 week extension through November 6).
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
ROLE:
QUEEN BARONA (/Hippolyta), – Queen of the Fair Folk
(Derived directly / a combination of Oberon & Hippolyta Female? age undetermined)
RESPONSIBILITIES Include:
Memorization of blocking and lines, based directly on the role cast? includes necessary adjustments of scripts to suit the roles created, and the real-time format.
Generating derived material, such as developing backstory, original pieces, and 1on1 performance pieces in collaboration with the artistic team.
Attending and leading education workshops/events in promotion of the performances
Taking responsibility for cogeneration of others’ material in conjunction with the process
Alternate practices of movement, dance, musical performance and puppetry are preferred but not required.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS-Choreographic experience: familiarity with alternate physical/dance skills to serve as an AD, to focus on scripted scenes of their own and other characters’.
Teaching skills (for aforementioned workshops, held during the run, for high school students and other community members).
A NOTE ON CASTING: WALK THE NIGHT emphasizes diversity, mixed race casting. As such, character descriptions in source texts, such as age, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity are initial suggestions, subject to change.
PREMISE (Derived from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream):
Local “celebrity” Nic Bottom has disappeared while seeking the answer to a decades old mystery: A Missing Person’s case of 4 quarreling lovers. The secret surrounds a travelling carnival hosted by the Fair Folk, whose roots reach back to Eastern Romani descendants. The carnival comes to town once every few years.
Audiences attend this nighttime festival, dressed in masquerade attire. At a sudden point in the night, a ritual takes place, and the legend of this culture comes alive.
We discover the truth of the mystery, as the story unfolds, told through the tale of opposing Fair Folk factions, led by King Titan and Queen Barona:
Four Lovers (2 same-sex couples), scorned by society and fighting amongst themselves, are overtaken by trances that lead them to rediscover a freer love for one another? a trick is played by the Queen on the King to teach him a lesson, using an unwitting Troupe of Players. The entirety of the these events is spearheaded by a calamitous, powerful trickster, known as Puck.
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