Wednesday, July 23 & Friday, July 25 at 6:00 PM
Homer High School Mariner Theatre
Pier One will be hosting auditions for a Mud Bay Bards production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
Please come at the start time if at all possible to get the full audition experience! (If you absolutely cannot make these dates, please contact jennifer@pieronetheatre.org)
Audition materials are available at the Pier One Theatre office. These are open auditions for all ages.
Read on for information about the shows. Call 907-226-2287 or email info@pieronetheatre.org with any questions!
Synopsis:
Caesar’s assassination is just the halfway point of Julius Caesar. The first part of the play leads to his death; the second portrays the consequences. As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic. Cassius and others convince Brutus to join a conspiracy to kill Caesar.
On the day of the assassination, Caesar plans to stay home at the urging of his wife, Calphurnia. A conspirator, Decius Brutus, persuades him to go to the Senate with the other conspirators and his friend, Mark Antony. At the Senate, the conspirators stab Caesar to death. Antony uses a funeral oration to turn the citizens of Rome against them. Brutus and Cassius escape as Antony joins forces with Octavius Caesar.
Encamped with their armies, Brutus and Cassius quarrel, then agree to march on Antony and Octavius. In the battle which follows, Cassius, misled by erroneous reports of loss, persuades a slave to kill him; Brutus’s army is defeated. Brutus commits suicide, praised by Antony as “the noblest Roman of them all.”
Read the full play here:
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/julius-caesar/read/
Audition materials may include these speeches:
Act I: Scene II (Cassius): “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow… [etc…]”
Act III: Scene I(Marc Antony): “O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low?…[etc…]”
or these scenes:
Act II: Scene II
Act V: Scene V
We will have audition forms at auditions, but if you’d like to save time at the door, you can fill this out in advance!