DRAMA AUDITIONS: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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DRAMA AUDITIONS

Every year at Gooseberry, a performance is held right before winter break. This year, the Drama Club will be putting on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Inspired by the Halloween Dance, Mrs. Acuña and Ms. Thrussell explain that their plan is to use a Victorian costuming and setting theme, which they hope to be quite ambitious.

• Students may try out and potentially be cast as any role, regardless of gender.
• Shenanigans may cost you a part!
• Drama students get preference for roles, but anyone may try out.
• If you have multiple characters trying out for roles: We're going to try to spread out the roles to as many players as possible, so you may only see one of your characters getting a spot.
• Not everyone will get a role.
• Students may also apply to work backstage in the technical crew.

CAST OF CHARACTERS
The Athenians

• Theseus: Duke of Athens
• Hippolyta: Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus
• Philostrate: Master of the Revels
• Egeus: father of Hermia, wants her to marry Demetrius
• Hermia: daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander
• Helena: in love with Demetrius, Hermia's friend
• Lysander: in love with Hermia at first but later loves Helena and then returns to loving Hermia
• Demetrius: initially loves Hermia but later loves Helena

The fairies

• Oberon: Titania's husband and King of the Fairies
• Titania: Oberon's wife and Queen of the Fairies
• Puck: servant to Oberon
• Peaseblossom: fairy servant to Titania
• Cobweb: fairy servant to Titania
• Moth: fairy servant to Titania
• Mustardseed: fairy servant to Titania

The mechanicals

• Peter Quince: carpenter, leads the troupe and plays Prologue
• Nick Bottom: weaver, plays Pyramus
• Francis Flute: bellows-mender, plays Thisbe
• Robin Starveling: tailor, plays Moonshine
• Tom Snout: tinker, plays Wall
• Snug: joiner, plays Lion

Members for the technical crew are also needed! These can be people working on lighting, music, set design, costumes, makeup, etc.

If your character is trying out for a role, please fill out the following:

Character:
Are they in Drama Club?: Characters in Drama are more likely to get a part, as they are assumed to be more practiced.
Preferred Roles: Which roles would they (or you) want? There's no guarantee that they'll get a preferred role.
Their Audition: Describe how their audition went.
Rating: Rate their performance on a scale of 1 to 10.

<b>Character:</b> <b>Are they in Drama Club?:</b> Characters in Drama are more likely to get a part, as they are assumed to be more practiced. <b>Preferred Roles:</b> Which roles would they (or you) want? There's no guarantee that they'll get a preferred role. <b>Their Audition:</b> Describe how their audition went. <b>Rating:</b> Rate their performance on a scale of 1 to 10.

If your character would like to volunteer for the stage crew, please fill out the following:

Character:
Are they in Drama Club?: Characters in Drama are more likely to get leadership roles.
Backstage Roles: Which backstage tasks would they like to focus on, if any?

<b>Character:</b> <b>Are they in Drama Club?:</b> Characters in Drama are more likely to get leadership roles. <b>Backstage Roles:</b> Which backstage tasks would they like to focus on, if any?

Comments

AUDIENCE

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People may spectate and offer support to their friends. Any heckling will get you kicked out!

[quinning]

Quinn brings popcorn, sits smack in the middle of the audience, and beams whenever an Azurcrest is on stage; especially a Freshman or Sophomore. Moral Support Squad, reporting for duty! She spectates the auditions every year. Like, with no movie theatres here, where else is she going to get her entertainment?

Despite what the popcorn may imply she's actually way into supporting her little fledgling actors. She'll clap after each audition, clap enthusiastically after each Azurcrest's audition, and WHOOP for the ones she finds particularly entertaining. Every reaction is good-natured but she promises to shut up if Acuña or Thrussell tell her that's quite enough.

[goosestaff]

"Dahling," a very amused Ms. Thrussell interrupts, "your enthusiasm is admirable, but let's scale it back to about a six."

She will then teasingly offer to teach Quinn a ridiculously exaggerated golf clap.

[quinning]

Joking, Quinn heaves a melodramatic sigh and slumps back in her seat. Fiiine.

She proceeds to provide her reviews through the ancient form of the golf clap.

[gonnabefamous]

"Pssssst." Cameron whispers, until he's got Quinn's attention, then he mouths, SCORE CARDS.

Because he hasn't gone yet, and he wants to be rated too.

Quinn's new scoring system.

[quinning]

Quinn's mouth makes a huge "O" and she immediately digs into her bag for her journal and pencil case.

With the biggest markers she has, she writes "10" on one journal page and a "10" with a little :) inside the 0 on the other. Whenever the staff's backs are to the audience at the end of an audition, Quinn ecstatically displays the former for non-Azurcrest students, and the latter for Azurcrests. Every score is provided with an equally-enthusiastic thumbs-up an a genuine go get 'em tiger kind of grin.

Cricket (aka the best big sister in the world)

[chryseis]

Drama is another one of Uly's hobbies that Cricket doesn't understand nor care for, but BY JOVE! she'll support him in anything he shows even the slightest interest in. She's also there to support her friends and her favorite Ebonhide freshman, Clarence! They've been running lines together all week and he is VERY nervous.

She sits off to the side nearish to the front and reads between performances, but is polite and attentive when people are auditioning (even if she does tend to have a glazed over look to her eyes). She claps when appropriate and gives Clarence a standing ovation. She stays until after her brother and close friends have performed, then slips out.

[orangepip]

GO CLARENCE!!!

[chryseis]

I'm starting a Clarence fan club.