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The Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble is now casting for it’s spring performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. High school students from all corners of Los Angeles are encouraged to submit for a chance to audition. Below you will find all the details about the project, and at the very bottom are instructions on how to submit. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me with the word: QUESTION in the subject line (so I know whether or not it's a submission). Thank you so much! Sincerely, Leslie [email protected] (323) 250-3983 (Google Voice) +++++++++++++ Name of Production Company: Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble Director: Dr. Melanie Andrews Producer: Paul Heller, Katy Haber Casting Director: Leslie Brown Project Title: “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”, by William Shakespeare Project Synopsis: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” William Shakespeare's most popular comedy, was written around 1594 or 95. It portrays the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with woodland fairies and a duke and duchess. Taking place in a mythical Athens and an enchanted forest, there is a handsome fairy king, a misguided parent, star-crossed lovers, a weaver who's transformed into a half-donkey, wood sprites and elves. This work is widely performed around the world, and no wonder - it's about the world's most popular pastime, falling in love. But as Puck knows, falling in love can make fools of us all." Project Notes: The mission of the Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble is to bring our students into the world of theater using Shakespeare’ s ageless language and eloquent dramatic insight into people and events. With the support of professional mentors they are able to realize their own special talents and perform with style and substance. Barriers of ethnicities are erased as our Ensemble explores the 17th Century world of the Bard. In 2013 because of the phenomenal success of those past productions, and the impact they had on the lives of the students the LAUSD asked The Ensemble to expand the program to other schools. This culminated in two separate productions of Twelfth Night At George Washington High school, LA High School and two performances at the FigAt7th Downtown Festival on July 27th 2013, sponsored by Arts Brookfield. For the 2014 spring production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, The Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble is proud to announce the collaboration from BritWeek, BAFTA LA, the LAUSD Arts Ed (http://arts.lausd.net/), The Music Center, LA County Parks & Recreation, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, and the Independent Shakespeare Company. This year’s mentors include Anthony Armatrading (Royal Shakespeare Company), Suzan Crowley (Bristol Old Vic), Rob Clare (Julliard). Audition Dates: Nov. 2nd, 2013: Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90016 Nov. 9th, 2013: J.E.T. Studios, 5126 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91206 Dec. 7th, 2013: (10a-1pm) Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center, 1600 E 4th St Los Angeles, CA 90033 Dec. 9th, 2013: (1:30-5:30pm) East LA Performing Arts Academy, 4211 Dozier St., Los Angeles, CA 90063 Dec. 14th, 2013: The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, 1238 W 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90026 Callbacks: January 11th and 12th at Nate Holden Performing Arts Center Sides: Available on website: http://innercityshakespeare.org/monologues/ Parking: Street Parking Performance Dates: April 31st, 2014 and May 4th, 2014 Location: Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012 http://grandparkla.org/ Rehearsals: start Jan 2014, Weds. and Sat. up until performance Compensation: Meals during performance + snacks and possible small stipend for transportation during rehearsal Opportunity to work directly with mentors from Julliard, Bristol Old Vic, and the Royal Shakespeare Academy Light Snacks during rehearsals Small stipend for transportation Lunch during performances. Credit in the program >> AT YOUR SCHEDULED AUDITION - PLEASE BRING A HARD COPY OF YOUR HEADSHOT << Wardrobe: – BOYS – long sleeve shirts, no jeans GIRLS – ankle length skirt or dress CHARACTERS: Note: All actors will only read from the roles for PUCK, LYSANDER, HELENA & HERMIA for the 1st audition. The full list of roles are included so that you may be familiar with the different characters in the play. You will be given the opportunity to prepare for specific role that you are interested in, during the call back. PUCK (Male/Female) - Also known as Robin Goodfellow, Puck is Oberon’s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. Though A Midsummer Night’s Dream divides its action between several groups of characters, Puck is the closest thing the play has to a protagonist. His enchanting, mischievous spirit pervades the atmosphere, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the other main plots: he mistakes the young Athenians, applying the love potion to Lysander instead of Demetrius, thereby causing chaos within the group of young lovers; he also transforms Bottom’s head into that of an ass. PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTE, and MUSTARDSEED (Male/Female) – The fairies ordered by Titania to attend to Bottom after she falls in love with him. OBERON (Male) – The king of the fairies, Oberon is initially at odds with his wife, Titania, because she refuses to relinquish control of a young Indian prince whom he wants for a knight. 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. LYSANDER (Male) – A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. Lysander’s relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love’s difficulty: he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, 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. DEMETRIUS (Male) – A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena. Demetrius’s obstinate pursuit of Hermia throws love out of balance among the quartet of Athenian youths and precludes a symmetrical two-couple arrangement. EGEUS (Male) – 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. Egeus’s severe insistence that Hermia either respect his wishes or be held accountable to Athenian law places him squarely outside the whimsical dream realm of the forest. THESEUS (Male) – 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. NICK BOTTOM (Male) – 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. His simultaneous nonchalance about the beautiful Titania’s sudden love for him and unawareness of the fact that Puck has transformed his head into that of an ass mark the pinnacle of his foolish arrogance. PETER QUINCE (Male) – A carpenter and the nominal 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 the craftsmen’s play, Quince plays the Prologue. FRANCIS FLUTE (Male) – 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 his lines in a high, squeaky voice. ROBIN STARVELING (Male) – 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. TOM SNOUT (Male) – 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. SNUG (Male) – 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. PHILOSTRATE (Male) – Theseus’s Master of the Revels, responsible for organizing the entertainment for the duke’s marriage celebration. TITANIA (Female) – The beautiful queen of the fairies, Titania resists the attempts of her husband, Oberon, to make a knight of the young Indian prince that she has been given. Titania’s brief, potioninduced love for Nick Bottom, whose head Puck has transformed into that of an ass, yields the play’s foremost example of the contrast motif. HERMIA (Female) – 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. Self-conscious about her short stature, Hermia suspects that Helena has wooed the men with her height. By morning, however, Puck has sorted matters out with the love potion, and Lysander’s love for Hermia is restored. HELENA (Female) – A young woman of Athens, in love 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. HIPPOLYTA (Female) – The legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to Theseus. Like Theseus, she symbolizes order. _____________________________________________________________________________ Email submission instructions: [email protected] In your email, please include the following information: 1. Subject line of the email should have your NAME, age, school 2. Body of email should include: • Your name, age, school, and grade • Parent's name & contact information • 2 Recent photos (jpg format please) one headshot, one full body shot • short paragraph about why you want to do Shakespeare Thank you!