2018 Summer Shakespeare Season - Indianapolis EPA
Richmond Shakespeare Festival
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Feb 19, 2018
2:00 pm - 10:00 pm (EST)
APPOINTMENTS
To sign up for time slots for either audition, please visit the auditions page at www.richmondshakes.org
CONTRACT
SPT Transitional SPT 3; $331/week minimum.
SEEKING
Actors for all roles in the 2018 Summer Shakespeare Season. See breakdown for details.
PREPARATION
Please prepare two contrasting classical monologues. No more than three minutes total.
LOCATION
Phoenix Theatre
749 N Park Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3432
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director - Patrick Flick - Director - Macbeth
Guest Director - Saffron Henke - Winter's Tale
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal - May 15, 2017
Season Runs June 15-June 30, 2017
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
MACBETH
Duncan – King of Scotland
Malcolm – Duncan's elder son
Donalbain – Duncan's younger son
Macbeth – a general in the army of King Duncan; originally Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, and later King of Scotland
Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife, and later Queen of Scotland
Banquo – Macbeth's friend and a general in the army of King Duncan
Fleance – Banquo's son
Macduff – Thane of Fife
Lady Macduff – Macduff's wife
Macduff's son
Ross, Lennox, Angus, Menteith, Caithness – Scottish Thanes
Siward – general of the English forces
Young Siward – Siward's son
Seyton – Macbeth's armourer
Hecate – Queen of the witches
Three Witches
Captain – in the Scottish army
Three Murderers – employed by Macbeth
Third Murderer
Two Murderers – attack Lady Macduff
Porter – gatekeeper at Macbeth's home
Doctor – Lady Macbeth's doctor
Doctor – at the English court
Gentlewoman – Lady Macbeth's caretaker
Lord – opposed to Macbeth
First Apparition – armed head
Second Apparition – bloody child
WINTER'S TALE
Sicilia Leontes – The King of Sicily, and the childhood friend of the Bohemian King Polixenes.
Hermione – The virtuous and beautiful Queen of Sicily.
Camillo – An honest Sicilian nobleman.
Paulina – A noblewoman of Sicily.
Antigonus – Paulina's husband, and also a loyal friend of Hermione.
Dion – A lord of Sicily.
Cleomenes – A Sicilian lord.
Mamillius – The young prince of Sicily, Leontes and Hermione's son.
Emilia – One of Hermione's ladies-in-waiting.
Gaoler – Charged with imprisoning Hermione.
Mariner – His ship takes Antigonus to Bohemia.
Bohemia Polixenes – The King of Bohemia, and Leontes's boyhood friend.
Florizel – Polixenes's only son and heir.
Perdita – The daughter of Leontes and Hermione, unaware of her royal lineage.
Shepherd – An old and honorable sheep-tender.
Clown – or Young Shepherd, the Old Shepherd's buffoonish son, and Perdita's adopted brother.
Autolycus – A roguish peddler, vagabond, and pickpocket.
Mopsa – A shepherdess, in love with Young Shepherd.
Dorcas – A shepherdess, in love with Young Shepherd.
Other Characters: Archidamus – A lord of Bohemia, visiting Sicilia with his king. Lords, servants, gentlemen, ladies in Sicilia Shepherds, shepherdesses, servants in Bohemia
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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