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Audition Notice for Demo: Save Hamlet!

Announcing Auditions for ***Save Hamlet!*, our Winter Play**

Sample Playhouse will be holding auditions for Save Hamlet!, by Mark Harvey Levine, directed by Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan.

Sample Playhouse is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strongly encourage people with disabilities and members of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities to audition for our plays, or to join us to participate in other ways.

The Play: Save Hamlet! is a hilarious parody of the Bard's greatest play, full of laughs, tongue-in-cheek humor, and physical comedy. When Horatio, Bernardo, and Marcellus are all women in disguise - and when they discover each other's secret identity, they realize they must team up and step in, or the whole thing will end in tragedy! Armed with snark, self-referential humor, and a load of fake swords, they team up to subvert the inevitable and maybe get folks to lighten up a little in the state of Denmark.

When: Monday, January 19 and Tuesday, January 20. No callbacks are planned.

Time: Sign-ins begin fifteen minutes early. Please try to arrive before your time slot begins.

Where: Eden Prairie Senior Center, 8950 Eden Prairie Road, Eden Prairie, on the lower level. Park in back. (Map)

What: Auditions will be done by readings of sides from the play.

If you cannot attend the auditions and would like to be considered, you can supply an audition video instead. A video is not needed if you can attend in person. Upload the video to your choice of service and paste a link to it in the Link to Audition Video field. Instead of scheduling an appointment, put yourself on the waiting list. For audition videos, you should perform a monologue.

Sign Up To Audition: Please fill out and submit an audition form. Our audition form is an online form. You will be asked to upload a picture of yourself and a theatrical résumé if you have one. The picture can be a headshot or informal photo of just you, preferably of just head or head and upper torso, in portrait orientation. It should be a JPEG file. The résumé should be a PDF file. If you don’t have either of these files you can still submit the form. Check your calendar and be prepared to enter rehearsal conflicts.

If you cannot upload either a photo or a résumé, you can bring them with you to the audition. If you do not have a résumé, please fill out the “recent theatrical experiences” section of the form.

Production Schedule:

Rehearsals: Monday, February 16 through Thursday, March 26
Monday through Thursday, possibly some Fridays, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm.

Load-in and set build: Saturday, March 21. 3-4 hours required.

Tech/Dress Rehearsals: Monday, March 23 through Thursday, March 26, call time 6:00 pm.

Strike: April 5, immediately after the matinee performance.

Performances:

March 27-28, 7:00 pm
March 29, 2:00 pm
April 2-4, 7:00 pm
April 5, 2:00 pm

PiM Arts High School
7255 Flying Cloud Dr.
Eden Prairie
The Loading Dock Theatre

Roles to be cast:

BERNADETTE - She / her. Early 20's, Disguises herself as Bernardo. Snarky. Doesn't quite get the whole iambic pentameter thing.

FRANCESCA - She / her. Early 20's, Disguises herself as Francisco. Also plays CORNELIUS, REYNALDO and GARFUNKEL. Enthusiastic, resourceful.

MARCELLA - She / her. Early 20's , Disguises herself as Marcellus. Smart, Type A.

HORATIA - She / her. Early 20's. Disguises herself as Horatio. Bookish, nerdy, stuffy. Likes Hamlet.

GERTRUDE - She / her, 40's - 50's, Hamlet’s mom. Overbearing, embarrassing.

OPHELIA - She / her. Early 20's. Polonius’ daughter. Increasingly upset about the circumstances around her and determined to do something about them.

FIRST PLAYER - She / her, any age. Runs a troupe of actors. (May double FIRST GRAVEDIGGER AND FORTINBRAS)

FIRST GRAVEDIGGER - She / her, any age. Digs graves. It’s a living.

FORTINBRAS - She / her, any age. Early 20's. Prince of Norway. Sheepish.

GHOST - He / him, 40's - 60's. The Ghost of Hamlet’s father.

CLAUDIUS - He / him, 40's - 60's. The current King. Not very bright. Talks like a 1920's gangster.

LAERTES - He / him, early 20's. Ophelia’s brother, Polonius’ son. Kind of a hot-head.

POLONIUS - He / him, 40's - 60's. Advisor to the King. Ophelia and Laertes’ father. An overconfident fool.

HAMLET - He / him, early 20's Prince of Denmark. Nice, but a little out of his depth.

ROSENCRANTZ - Any, early 20's, School Friend of Hamlet

GUILDENSTERN - Any, early 20's, Late Teens-Early 20s, School Friend of Hamlet

VOLTEMAND - Any, early 20's, . Ambassador to Norway. (May double OSRIC.)

OSRIC - Any, early 20's, A local Lord. Kind of an idiot.

Ensemble may double as Players, Pirates, Courtiers, and others.

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Last updated: February 10, 2020

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