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A Midsummer Night's Dream-Saint Cloud,MN-Fargo, ND
- Casting ID # 1125820
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Project Type
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Live Event
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Submission Type
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Open Call
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Market
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Fargo, ND
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Union
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Non-union
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Location
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Saint Cloud, MN 56301
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Release Date
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12-20-11
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Rate/Pay
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n/a
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Submission deadline
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03-27-12
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Audition Date
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n/a
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Casting Category
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Theatre - Non-Equity
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Casting for "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM"
DESCRIPTION:
One of William Shakespeare's most hilarious and enchanting works comes to the stage in a production created especially for students. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream is a whimsical story of love, mischief, matchmaking and magic as four young lovers enter the woods on a midsummer's night and get caught up in a lover's quarrel between the king and queen of faeries. Expect the unexpected with our fanciful, glimmering vision of laughter and mayhem in this classic turned modern comedic fantasy.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES:
This production is a small time-commitment with only THREE public performances Fri.
May 18th 7:00pm, Sat. May 19th 2:00pm and Sun. May 20th 2:00pm.
DAYTIME PERFORMANCES:
There is ONE day of School Matinee performances on Fri. May 18th 9:30am & Noon.
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| Role # 1 Puck |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Puck- Also known as Robin Goodfellow, Puck is Oberon’s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. His antics are responsible for many of the complications in the play.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 2 Oberon |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Oberon-The king of the fairies. Oberon’s desire for revenge on Titania leads him to send Puck to obtain the love-potion flower that creates so much of the play’s confusion and farce.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 3 Titania |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Titania-The beautiful queen of thefairies. Titania’s falls in love with Nick Bottom, whose head Puck has transformed into that of a donkey.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 4 Fairies |
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Seeking 10 talent(s) for this role
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed and other fairies – fairies who attend to Titania.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 5 Lysander |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Lysander-A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. He cannot mary her because her father wishes her to wed Demetrius. When Lysander and Hermia run away into the forest, Lysander becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 6 Demetrius |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Demetrius-A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia but then discovers he is actually in love with Helena.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 7 Hermia |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Hermia-Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena. As a result of the fairies’ mischief with Oberon’s love potion, both Lysander and Demetrius suddenly fall in love with Helena.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 8 Helena |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Helena-A young woman of Athens, inlove with Demetrius. Demetrius and Helena were once betrothed, but when Demetrius met Helena’s friend Hermia, he fell in love with her and abandoned Helena. Lacking confidence in her looks, Helena thinks that Demetrius and Lysander are mocking her when the fairies’ mischief causes them to fall in love with her.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 9 Egeus |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Egeus- Hermia’s father, who brings a complaint against his daughter to Theseus: Egeus has given Demetrius permission to marry Hermia, but Hermia, in love with Lysander, refuses to marry Demetrius.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 10 Theseus |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Theseus-The heroic duke of Athens,engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story, removed from the dreamlike events of the forest.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 11 Hippolyta |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Hippolyta-The legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to Theseus.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 12 Philostrate |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Philostrate-Theseus’s Master of the Revels, responsible for organizing the entertainment for the duke’s marriage celebration.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 13 Nick Bottom |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Nick Bottom-The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Bottom is full of advice and self-confidence but frequently makes silly mistakes and misuses language.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 14 Peter Quince |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Peter Quince-A carpenter and the leader of the craftsmen’s attempt to put on a play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Quince is often shoved aside by the abundantly confident Bottom. During thecraftsmen’s play, Quince plays the Prologue.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 15 Francis Flute |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Francis Flute-The bellows-mender chosen to play Thisbe in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Forced to play a young girl in love, the bearded craftsman determines to speak hislines in a high, squeaky voice.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 16 Robin Starveling |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Robin Starveling-The tailor chosen to play Thisbe’s mother in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. He ends up playing the part of Moonshine.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 17 Tom Snout |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Tom Snout-The tinker chosen to play Pyramus’s father in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. He ends up playing the part of Wall, dividing the two lovers.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
| Role # 18 Snug |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Snug-The joiner chosen to play the lion in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Snug worries that his roaring will frighten the ladies in the audience.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 35 |
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