AUDITION INFORMATION FOR: AUDITION DATES: Wednesday, January 18, 3:40pm, West Auditorium All General Auditions Thursday, January 19, 3:40pm, West Auditorium Callbacks (Callbacks will be posted online) AUDITION MATERIAL: Please prepare one of the monologues included in this packet for the general audition. All monologues are from The Tempest and familiarity with the text and characters will prove helpful. Actors who receive callbacks will be given audition materials at the callback. *Please sign up for an audition slot on the East Fine Arts Callboard.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY Rehearsals: Rehearsals will begin on Friday, January 20 at 3:40pm. Actors should be prepared to rehearse every day, Monday- Friday, from 3:40pm 6:00pm. Additional weekend rehearsals may be called. All conflicts must be listed below and cleared with the Director. Tech Week: Thursday, March 8 Thursday, March 15. Actors should be prepared to rehearse as late as 9:00pm during the final weeks of rehearsals. Rehearsal may be held on March 5 (Casmir Pulaski Day) if needed. Actors are asked to keep this day open for possible rehearsal. Crew Calls: Outside of rehearsals, all actors will be required to contribute to the mounting of this production through helping in set construction, costuming, or lighting. All actors must participate in strike on Monday, March 19. Performances: Thursday, March 15, 11:15am (In-school performance) Friday, March 16, 7:30 pm Saturday, March 17, 7:30pm Performances of The Tempest are March 15, 16, and 17. Before you try out, check these dates with your parents/guardians and be sure that you do not have a prior commitment. Remember, when you audition for a show at Stevenson High School, you are auditioning for every role. It is the Director s job to cast you or not cast you as she/he sees fit. If you drop out of the show after you have been cast, you will NOT be eligible to audition for another show at Stevenson unless you can prove through work in theatre classes and crew that you can accept the responsibility of being cast in a show. Do not damage your reputation by dropping out of a production. You may be asked to furnish your own costume. The budget does not always allow the luxury of designing costumes for each character. Additionally, if and when costumes are provided for you, you must take care not to damage your costumes. Any rented or borrowed costume or costume piece for which SHS is charged excessive wear and/or replacement fees, the student will be expected to cover that cost. So, please take care of all the garments you are issued for the production. You must remain eligible during the rehearsal process and tech/performance week. Students who lose eligibility (D/F/I in two or more classes) will be ineligible to audition for the next production. You must be in attendance at school in order to attend rehearsals or performances. If you have any questions, see Ms. Gecker in the East Fine Arts Office (6076).
The Tempest Audition Information Sheet Fill out the following information neatly (I must be able to read your name and ID number clearly) and bring it with you to the auditions on January 18. You will not be cast without this form. Name ID Number Parent/Guardian Name(s) Phone Email: Year in School: 9 10 11 12 What possible conflicts might you have with after school rehearsals? Be very specific about times and dates. Very neatly write (below) or type your complete list of conflicts and attach it to this sheet. Be honest! Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 6:00 Other Conflicts: Please list any dance experience (dance classes, training, performance experiences etc.) EXAMPLE: Ballet Class, 3 years, Lincolnshire Academy of Dance Please list any music experiences and vocal part (voice lessons, choir, band, orchestra etc.) EXAMPLE: SHS Choir, 2 years, alto
I have read the audition packet and fully understand its contents. I also understand that rehearsals for The Tempest will be held after school. It is clear to me that my participation in the audition process indicates a willingness to accept any role in the cast. A student who participates in the audition and then declines a role after the cast list is posted forfeits the privilege of auditioning for all other Theatre Department productions until a crew or staff position has been served. Student Signature I am aware that my son/daughter is auditioning for the winter play and that rehearsals will be held after school during the months of January, February, and March. I am also aware that the performance dates for The Tempest are March 15-17, 2012. Parent/Guardian Signature Please indicate if you would be interested in a staff or crew position by circling the position you feel you could perform. (*This information will in no way influence casting decisions.) Student Director Stage Manager Sound Board Operator Lighting Crew Set Construction Crew Properties Crew Costume/Make-up Crew *Senior Option: (Only fill out if you are a Senior) *This information will in no way influence casting decisions. PLEASE be honest. Signify which statement applies: I will accept any role. *I will accept only certain roles. *Specify which roles:
AUDITION SELECTION Directions: Choose one of the monologues below to prepare for the audition. Memorization is not required, but a strong familiarity with the monologue will aid you in making bolder choices. Option 1: ARIEL (Male or Female) Act 1, Scene 2. Ariel tells Prospero how he/she created the tempest. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide, And burn in many places; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join But not a hair perish'd; On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me, In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle. The king's son have I landed by himself; Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle and sitting, His arms in this sad knot. Option 2: CALIBAN (Male) Act 1, Scene 2. Caliban curses Prospero and tells of their history. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: Cursed be I that did so! All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!
Option 3: ANTONIO (Male or Female) Act 2, Scene 1. Antonio attempts to persuade Sebastian to murder the King. O, out of that 'no hope' What great hope have you! no hope that way is Another way so high a hope that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me That Ferdinand is drown'd? Then, tell me, Who's the next heir of Naples? O, that you bore The mind that I do! what a sleep were this For your advancement! Do you understand me? Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon, If he were that which now he's like, that's dead; Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it, Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus, To the perpetual wink for aye might put This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest, They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; They'll tell the clock to any business that We say befits the hour. Option 4: FERDINAND (Male) Act 3, Scene 1. Ferdinand soliloquizes on the ease of his labor when in love. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness. I must remove Some thousands of these logs and pile them up, Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness Had never like executor. I forget: But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Most busy lest, when I do it.
Option 5: TRINCULO (Male or Female) Act 2, Scene 2. Trinculo stumbles upon Caliban, mistaking him for a fish. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor- John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. Thunder Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. Option 6: PROSPERO (Male or Female) Act 1, Scene 2. Prospero tells Miranda of the betrayal that brought them to the island. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Thy father was the Duke of Milan and A prince of power. My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio-- I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself Of all the world I loved and to him put The manage of my state; He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded, But what my power might else exact, like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie, he did believe He was indeed the duke; (Continued on next page)
The King of Naples, being an enemy To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises Of homage and I know not how much tribute, Should presently extirpate me and mine Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan With all the honours on my brother: whereon, A treacherous army levied, one midnight Fated to the purpose did Antonio open The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness, The ministers for the purpose hurried thence Me and thy crying self. Option 7: MIRANDA (Female) Act 3, Scene 1. Miranda confesses her feelings to Ferdinand. Alas, now, pray you, Work not so hard: I would the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile! Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns, 'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself; He's safe for these three hours. If you'll sit down, I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; I'll carry it to the pile. It would become me As well as it does you: and I should do it With much more ease; for my good will is to it, And yours it is against. I have not seen More that I may call men than you, good friend, And my dear father: how features are abroad, I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly and my father's precepts I therein do forget. But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.