Love's Labour's Lost Auditions
Ives Hall 119
6:30 pm
– 8:30 pm
Directed by Danielle Cain
Love’s Labour’s Lost is a quirky collage of courtship, with eccentric characters, love letters, mistaken identity, and linguistic one-upmanship. The whole play takes place outside in nature, with royals and commoners romping about the King’s park. It’s youthful and silly and fun.
It’s not surprising that LOVE is central to LLL. The entire plot of the play revolves around the characters’ attempts at courtship. Characters swear off love, talk endlessly about it, admit their powerlessness before it, and devote themselves entirely to its pursuit.
Full of quick dialogue and wordplay, LLL also asks the question How does language help and hinder human connection?
To provide context and add weight to the narrative, our production is set in 1919, post WWI.
The four young noblemen show evidence of injuries and shell-shock.
Their reason for taking the Oath is to take back control of their lives.
The women’s strong response to the absurdity of the Oath comes out of four years of taking more responsibility, with the men at war.
For four years the men have been communicating to loved ones via letters, rather than face to face, helping to explain their awkwardness.
The class system was crumbling post war, with all classes having served together, so the boldness of the working class characters is not out of the question.
Audition Dates/Location
Auditions: August 21 and August 22, Sign up for a 10 min slot from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Callbacks: August 23, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Ives Hall 119
Audition Format
20 Short Shakespeare Audition Monologues
Choose one of these pieces
Verse pieces required (not prose)
Any more than 20 lines of verse is too long (if you have another piece already prepared)
Beat changes occur at the end of every sentence
Please don’t do pieces from Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, As You Like It, or A Midsummer Night’s Dream (except the two listed here)
The numbers following the play title are the act and scene identifiers, so you can find the monologues in the play Shakespeare's plays are written in a mixture of verse and prose.
Prose could be called "normal language" - it’s what we use in everyday speech. It consists of sentences and paragraphs. It usually doesn’t have a consistent rhythm.
Verse or poetry has a set rhythm (or meter), and it looks distinctive on the page as the lines are left margin aligned. Shakespeare’s verse is in iambic pentameter.
To Sign Up
Fill out the Love's Labour's Lost Audition Form to sign up for an audition slot.
Callbacks
Callbacks: August 23rd, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Ives 119
Please be available for this time frame, SM will send an email to those that are on Callback after each audition day.
Commitments
First Rehearsal
- Monday, August 26 from 6pm-9:30pm
Rehearsal Call Times
- Rehearsals will be held Monday-Thursday from 6:00pm-9:30pm, starting August 26–October 17.
- Two additional rehearsal times are on Sundays, October 6 & 13, from 10:00am-1:00pm.
Technical Rehearsals
- Tech Weekend: October 19 & 20
- Tech Week: October 21–23
Dress Rehearsals
- Tech Week: October 21–23
Performances
- October 24, 25 26 @ 7:30 pm
- October 27 @ 2:00pm