A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Audition Pieces (Tuesday 12th April, 7.45pm)
Click on the Character's name to access the audition piece.
Athens
ACT I, Sc 1 ‘Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour’ to ‘With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.’
Philostrate/Theseus: ACT V, Sc 1. ‘Say, what abridgements have you’ to ‘Go, bring them in.’
Egeus: ACT I, Sc1. ‘Full of vexation come I, with complaint’ to ‘Immediately provided in that case’
Hermia/Demetrius/Helena/Lysander:
ACT III, Sc 2. ‘What, can you do me any greater harm than hate’ to ‘I am amazed and know not what to say'.
Demetrius/Helena: ACT II, Sc 1. 'I love thee not, therefore pursue me not' to 'To die upon the hand I love so well'.
Lysander/ Helena: ACT I, Sc 1. 'How now. my lovw! Why is your cheek so pale' to 'Tomorrow will I truly meet etc'.
Fairy Land
Oberon/Titania: ACT II, Sc 1. Ill met by Moonlight, proud Titania’ to ‘We shall chide downright if we longer stay’.
Puck: ACT III, Sc 2. ‘My Mistress with a monster is in love’ and ACT V, Sc 1. ’If we shadows have offended'
Titania/Bottom: ACT III, Sc 1. ‘I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again’ to ‘Tie up my love’s tongue, bring him silently’
Chief Fairy: ACT II, Sc 1. ‘How now, spirit! Whither wander you? To ‘Are you not he?’
The Mechanicals
Peter Quince, Francis Flute, Robin Starveling, Tom Snout and Nick Bottom:
ACT III, SC 1. ‘Are we all met?’ to ‘O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. etc
Bottom, ACT IV, Sc 1 [Awakening] ‘When my cue comes, call me’ to his EXIT
Gordon Hamlin (gordonhamlin@tiscali.co.uk 07715244729)