2012 Season

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Auditions for

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

a comedy by William Shakespeare

Directed by Simon Ferland

Contact: simon.ferland@umit.maine.edu or 299-3550

—  Date and Location  —

Sat. and Sun. January 28th & 29th · 1:00pm · Auditions to be held on the UMaine Orono campus in the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre (located behind Fogler Library)

Callbacks (if necessary) will be held on the evening of Sun. January 29th at 7pm.

As always monologues are welcome but not necessary (though they are recommended if auditioning for a lead role).  Actors should be prepared to perform cold readings from the script.

—  Show Information  —

13 Men, 9+ Women

‘This drama is one of the great comedies by William Shakespeare. The play revolves around the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. Taking place in midsummer, the story is a complex farce featuring the hopelessly intertwined romances of Hermia & Lysander and Helena & Demetrius. Their romantic intrigues are complicated further still when they lose themselves upon entering a forest ruled by Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Titania, his Queen. Confusing matters even more is Puck (Robin Goodfellow), a mischievous little fairy who plays tricks on the whoever he stumbles upon in the forest. Other visitors to the enchanted fairy realm include Bottom the weaver and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince and Flute; they are the amateur dramatists who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play “Pyramus and Thisbe.”‘

 A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed in Indian Trail Park (in Brewer), on July 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, and 28 at 6PM and July 22 and 29 at 4PM, and at Fort Knox (in Bucksport) August 2, 3, 4, and 5 at 6PM.