Audition Information for the ‘24 - ‘25 Season!
Auditions:
Thursday, February 6 @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 8 @ 1 p.m.
@ The Corson Playhouse
Performance Dates:
April 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13
Director: Mo Plastow
Auditions will consist of cold reads from provided sides, as well as theatre and movement exercises. Please email info@mightycorson.com with questions.
The Story
Hamlet's a challenge for any actor, but when Jessica is cast as the titular character in a New York production, it sends her into an existential tailspin. It doesn't help that her acting coach is borderline abusive, or that every Starbucks barista with an MFA tells her she's too young for the role. Or that she's somehow managed to make Sir Patrick Stewart her nemesis. Not to mention the fact that she's a woman. How can Jessica figure out "to be or not to be," when she can't even figure out herself? Featuring an all-female cast performing multiple roles, Woman Playing Hamlet is rip-roaring fun for Shakespeare fans and haters alike.
Roles
Jessica - late 20s - an actress, attractive, quirky, smart
Actress One -
Gwen - female, an acting coach.
Humanities Professor - male, overconfident
Ghost - male, Hamlet’s father
Actress Two -
Starbuck Actress - female, works at Starbucks
Priest - male, Catholic, celibate
Bicycle Messenger - male, streetwise and hip
Emily Ostergaard - female, Jessica’s computer-geek niece
Barfly - female, alcoholic
Home Shopping Network Model - female, bubbly
Rosie - female, a young soap-opera starlet
Actress Three -
Lord Derby - male, English Shakespeare scholar
Minnesota Mother - female, Jessica’s mother
Male Psychiatrist - male, a Jewish Freudian psychiatrist
Bartender - male, rough, tough and tattooed
Home Shopping Network Hostess - female, bubbly
Gilda - female, grand dame soap-opera star and stroke victim
Gravedigger - male, a Cockney pun-master
Stage Manager - female