Seeking Video Auditions for "The Comedy of Errors"

Bainbridge Performing Arts is accepting video audition submissions for our June Bard at Bloedel production of “The Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare, Directed by Kristi Ann Jacobson.

Closing date for auditions is March 18th by end-of-day.

DETAILS 

Performances will be June 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, July 1, 2, 3 at 7:00PM at beautiful Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island

Callbacks will be held in person on Sunday March 20th and/or 27th 

Rehearsals will be April 18 - June 24 and be Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 6:45-9:30 and Saturdays 11:30-5:00.  Rehearsals will be a mix of in-person and remote, via Zoom. In-person rehearsals will be held at either T3 (BPA’s new temporary location at the Pavilion, a 15 minute walk from the ferry dock) or at Bloedel Reserve. Ferry passes will be provided for our Seattle-area cast members for rehearsals and performances.

Please see synopsis and character list below


REQUIREMENTS

  • Please submit an approximately 1 minute video of your monologue from a Shakespeare play.

  • Performers must be fully COVID 19 vaccinated 

  • BPA is committed to access, opportunity, and representation in all its projects, and we greatly look forward to performers of any and all genders, races, and body types at auditions. 

 

CHARACTERS

EGEON, a merchant from Syracuse

SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus

ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE, a traveler in search of his mother and his brother

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE, Antipholus of Syracuse’s servant

FIRST MERCHANT, a citizen of Ephesus

ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS, a citizen of Ephesus

DROMIO OF EPHESUS, Antipholus of Ephesus’s servant

ADRIANA, Antipholus of Ephesus’s wife

LUCIANA, Adriana’s sister

LUCE (also called Nell), kitchen maid betrothed to Dromio of Ephesus

MESSENGER, servant to Antipholus of Ephesus and Adriana

ANGELO, an Ephesian goldsmith

SECOND MERCHANT, a citizen of Ephesus to whom Angelo owes money

BALTHASAR, an Ephesian merchant invited to dinner by Antipholus of Ephesus

COURTESAN, hostess of Antipholus of Ephesus at dinner

DR. PINCH, a schoolmaster, engaged as an exorcist

OFFICER (also called Jailer), an Ephesian law officer

LADY ABBESS (also called Emilia), head of a priory in Ephesus

Attendants, Servants to Pinch, Headsman, Officers


SYNOPSIS 

Twintastic! The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It’s his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humor coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. After both being separated from their twins in a shipwreck, Antipholus and his slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them. The other set of twins lives in Ephesus, and the new arrivals cause a series of incidents of mistaken identity.

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