AUDITIONS: Taming of the Shrew

Name: AUDITIONS: Taming of the Shrew
Start: 2024-07-01T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-01T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Gaslight Theatre

Schedule

Mon Jul 01 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Gaslight Theatre | Enid, OK

AUDITIONS: Taming of the Shrew
By William Shakespeare

Directed by: Tammy Wilson
Audition Dates: July 1 & 2, 2024
Performance Dates: August 30-31, September 7-8
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CAST INFO:
Roles for adult men and women
📍Katherine and Petruchio will be played by Bailey Wilson and Alex Johnson
Characters available:
CHRISTOPHER SLY, a beggar
Hostess of an alehouse
A Lord
Huntsmen of the Lord
Page (disguised as a lady)
Players
Servingmen
Messenger
BAPTISTA MINOLA, father to Katherine and Bianca
BIANCA, his younger daughter
Suitors to Bianca:
➡️GREMIO
➡️HORTENSIO (later disguised as the teacher Litio)
➡️LUCENTIO (later disguised as the teacher Cambio)
VINCENTIO, Lucentio’s father
Servants to Lucentio:
➡️TRANIO (later impersonating Lucentio)
➡️BIONDELLO A Merchant (later disguised as Vincentio)
Servants to Petruchio:
➡️GRUMIO
➡️CURTIS
➡️NATHANIEL
➡️PHILLIP
➡️JOSEPH
➡️NICHOLAS
➡️PETER
Widow
Tailor
Haberdasher
Officer
Servants to Baptista and Petruchio
Scripts available to check out at the Gaslight Box Office during regular box office hours.
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There's a new spin on this year's Shakespeare production! The porch of the grand old Glidewell House at Humphrey Heritage Village will serve as the stage for Taming of the Shrew, which will be done Oklahoma style - as if Padua were Perry, if Verona were Vici, if Elsinore were Enid. Join us for this year's Southern Shakespeare in the Village!
The Taming of the Shrew Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an apparently ideal woman. Petruchio’s wooing of Katherine, however, is free of idealism. Petruchio takes money from Bianca’s suitors to woo her, since Katherine must marry before her sister by her father’s decree; he also arranges the dowry with her father. Petruchio is then ready to marry Katherine, even against her will. Katherine, the shrew of the play’s title, certainly acts much changed. But have she and Petruchio learned to love each other? Or is the marriage based on terror and deception?
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Gaslight auditions are open to all. 221 N. Independence, 580-234-2307. For more information about Gaslight auditions, please visit our website at www.gaslighttheatre.org/audition
All cast and crew members will be required to read, sign, and abide by our Code of Conduct which can be found at our website, www.gaslighttheatre.org/code-of-conduct