Please prepare:
1) One serio-comic or comic monologue, no longer than one minute. Since you will also be doing a Shakespeare sonnet, it would be preferable (and in your best interest!) if you choose a monologue in the classical vein that isn’t Shakespeare.
2) One of the Shakespeare sonnets provided with this audition package.
3) If you would also like to be considered as one of the musicians (vocal or instrumental), please prepare one of the musical excerpts provided with this audition package.
**Live music will be performed on stage during the show. If you are proficient in a musical instrument (recorder, classical guitar, hand drums, cello and more!) or as a singer (early music style is needed), please let us know when you book your audition. Please prepare one of the musical excerpts provided with this audition package. If you have a question, please speak to Gwyneth when booking your audition.
**There will be a movement portion to the audition. Please wear clothing you can move in, and bring dance shoes or dress shoes (no runners or clunky boots).
**There is a dog role in this cast! Please contact us!
ABOUT THE SHOW
Shakespeare in Love is a play with music that was adapted for the stage by Tony Award® and Olivier Award®winning writer Lee Hall, based on the screenplay by Academy Award®-winning writer Marc Norman and Tony Award®, Olivier Award®, and Academy Award®-winning writer Tom Stoppard. A romantic piece of historical f iction, the story centers around a young Will Shakespeare as he struggles to find his inspiration. Enter the feisty, aristocratic Viola de Lesseps, who longs to be an actor. The relationship they forge serves as inspiration for Will’s greatest play – Romeo and Juliet.
This stage adaptation of the 1998 film brings Shakespeare’s dialogue to the forefront and highlights its theatrical origins. Much of the dialogue is taken from Shakespeare’s cannon (with Romeo and Juliet featured heavily throughout) and many of the plot devices employ tactics commonly found in plays of the Elizabethan age: cross-dressing disguises, mistaken identities, suspicions of adultery, sword fighting, a comedic nurse, and even visions of ghosts are all present, as is the enduring “play-within-a-play” convention that Shakespeare fondly adopted for many of his works. Overall, Shakespeare in Love delivers a delightfully crowd-pleasing, deeply romantic, and highly adventurous tale of love and drama in Renaissance-era England.
To book an audition, please email Vinnie and Gwyneth at sestito@rogers.com
Non-equity, non-paying. AST is committed to diversity, and encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender and ages to attend every audition.
