AUDITION INFO: OCT. 18 2-9pm

As You Like It will audition actors on Sunday, Oct. 18 in Nichols Hall from 2-5pm with callbacks from 6-9pm. The play follows Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s court. Accompanied by her cousin Celia, Rosalind finds safety and, eventually, love in the Forest of Arden.

AUDITION PREPARATIONS

15 – 20-line monologue by Shakespeare (please honor line count)

Advise us if you can play a musical instrument(s), and are you proficient enough to play in front of an audience – unfortunately, no piano players.

CALLBACKS

Oct. 18 6-9pm, scenes or monologues provided from As You Like It

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Set in present day, or the not too distant future, this production of As You Like it will be created through the lens of the 2011 Occupy movement.

The Court world of Duke Frederick is ruled by the elite 1% class. A world made up of corporations, strict social constraints and surveillance cameras to make sure the laws are upheld.

The Forest of Arden world of Duke Senior is ruled by the 99%. Those who’ve decided to live off the grid and go back to the land. They live in tents and are mixed bag of computer hackers, hipsters and the farmers who were originally on the land.

OLIVER (M)

Orlando’s mean older brother. He treats Orlando poorly, but has a ‘change of heart’ transformation near the end of the play, and eventually marries Celia.

ORLANDO (M)

Younger brother and friend to Adam. He falls in love with Rosalind, but is forced to run away from the Court, fearing for his life. Nice guy, but needs help in understanding women.

ADAM (M)

Older servant to Oliver, good friend to Orlando. Played as a 60’s hippie in this production.

DUKE FREDRICK/ DUKE SENIOR (M or F)   One actor will play both characters

DUKE FREDRICK is a cruel leader, hungry for power, who turns good by the end of the play. He/she banishes Duke Senior in the beginning of the play. His/her daughter is Celia.

DUKE SENIOR, banished by by Duke Fredrick and parent to Rosalind. He/ she is content to live in the forest, and learn from nature. He/she is a fair-minded leader

CELIA (F)

Rosalind’s cousin and best friend. When Rosalind is banished by Celia’s father, she sneaks away with Rosalind to the Forest of Arden. She is uncertain of Rosalind’s love for Orlando.

ROSALIND      

Daughter of the banished Duke Senior. She falls in love with Orlando. She, too is banished, and sneaks away with her cousin, Celia and the fool, Touchstone. In the Forest of Arden she disguises herself as a boy, and educates Orlando on how to love a woman.

LE BEAU/OLIVER MARTEXT (M or F)

Le Beau is a brown-noser in the Court. Oliver Martext is the less than efficient vicar who attempts to marry Touchstone and Audrey in the Forest of Arden.

CHARLES (M)

Wrestler who challenges Orlando to a match. Highly favored to win.

TOUCHSTONE (M or F)

A stand-up comic of the Court, who accompanies Celia and Rosalind into the Forest of Arden.

AMIENS (M or F)

An attendant to Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden. A computer hacker.

JAQUES (M or F)

A veteran of the war with PTSD who lives away from society.

CORIN (M or F)

Local shepherd/farmer who lives life simply and honestly.

PHOEBE (F)

A shepherdess who thinks highly of herself, and falls in love with Rosalind disguised as a boy.

SILIVUS (M)

A romantic shepherd, madly in love with Phoebe, who wants nothing to do with him.

AUDREY (F)

A simple country girl who Touchstone eventually falls in love with.

Actors may double up as Lords of the Court, Foresters, and Servants