Audition Alert!!

Dreamwell Theater is holding auditions for its last production of the 2005 season: Fortinbras, by Lee Blessing, which runs the first third weekends of November at the second floor of the Old Capitol Mall.

The play's author, a University of Iowa alumnus, describes the play as a "metaphysical farce." A comic sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play chronnicles the attempts of Young Fortinbras to devise the best possible way to legitimize his claim to the throne of Denmark. As he does so (with the help of a reluctant Horatio as public relations person) he is plagued by a harrowing array of ghosts, which include a repentant Claudius and Gertrude, and an Ophelia most theater-goers would barely recognize.

AUDITIONS
Friday, August 26; Saturday, August 27 at 7pm at The Dreamwell Theater space, second floor of the Old Capitol Mall. Auditions will consist of cold readings.

CALLBACKS
Sunday, August 28

The script is available at the Iowa City Public Library.

Joshue Sazon will be the director, he's a very, very good friend and a not-half bad poker player. It promises to be quite cool. They need a good turn out for the auditions, lots of us got snapped up by Paula Grady and Michael Sokoloff's production of Macbeth that's a direct conflict. (I play Lady MacDuff. Yep, for those who are counting, I did just get Chelsea in On Golden Pond (the Jane Fonda role). So that means I'm in three shows at the moment. I am seeking help.)

Anyway, stop out and audition. It's mostly painless, and lots of fun.