Shakespeare’s MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Director: Shannon Parks**
June 28, 29 at 7:30 and 30 at 2:00
Auditions: Monday, April 8; Tuesday April 9; call backs April 10 at 6:30 at Possum Point Players, Green Room.
Please either present a memorized monologue or plan to read cold from the script.
PPSP is committed to diversity in casting. ALL are invited to participate. Women may play men’s roles and the reverse.
Anyone cast must attend tech week June 21 through June 27.
First Rehearsal Monday, April 29.
Rehearsal days and times to be decided.
** professional director, actress, and teacher of Shakespeare (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Maryland Shakespeare Festival, Catholic University of America)”
SCRIPT:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/merryscenes.html
CHARACTERS:
Wives and Families:
Mistress Alice Ford
Frank Ford, her husband
John, servant
Robert, servant
Mistress Margaret Page
George Page, her husband
Anne their daughter in love with Fenton
William, their son
Anne’s Suitors:
Slender, kinsman to Justice Shallow, favored by Master Page as he has money
Doctor Caius, a French physician, with a French accent, favored by Mistress Page
Fenton, a young gentlemen of little means and beloved by Anne
Sir John Falstaff, impoverished Knight, living at the Garter Inn hoping to seduce one of the wives for money
Pistol, a follower at the Garter Inn
Nym, a follower at the Garter Inn
Bardolph, a follower at the Garter inn
Others:
Mistress Quickly, Dr. Caius’ servant, who acts as a go-between for all the courting lovers and between Falstaff and the wives
Sir Hugh Evans, a local clergyman with a Welsh accent
Robert Shallow, a country Justice of the Peace
Peter Simple, Slender’s servant
John Rugby, Dr. Caius’ servant
Host of the Garter Inn
Windsor Children disguised as Fairies
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