Production: Brew With The Bard: Comedy of Errors
Auditions: November 19, 2024
Callbacks: November 20, 2024
Performances: January 31 – March 7, 2025

Producer: Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre
Location: Marietta, GA
Production Type: Interactive Shakespearean Experience
Directors: Joey Carroll, David Whittington
Compensation: Yes

Seeking

5 actors to portray various roles in an immersive and interactive experience of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, featuring a light drinking theme. This production is for ages 21+ only due to the interactive nature and adult-oriented content. Actors may be encouraged to host interactive intermission games with guests. Performances will take place in The Strand’s 4th floor event space.

Rehearsals begin January 20, 2025. Performances are scheduled for every Friday night from January 31 to March 7, with two performances per night (each running 1 hour and 15 minutes).

Audition Details

Audition Date:
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM (Audition)
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM (Callbacks)
Audition Location:
The Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre – 4th Floor
117 N Park Square NE, Marietta, GA 30060
Preparation:
Please prepare a one-minute comedic Shakespeare monologue. Bring a headshot and resume. Be ready for scene work from the play during callbacks. Bring any evening or weekend conflicts for January 20-30.

Roles & Character Descriptions

ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS / SYRACUSE
One actor plays identical twin siblings separated at birth by a shipwreck. Antipholus of Syracuse searches for their family in a forbidden land, but confusion arises when townsfolk mistake them for their twin, Antipholus of Ephesus. Physicality, slapstick skills, and hand-to-hand combat training are a plus.

DROMIO OF EPHESUS / SYRACUSE
One actor plays identical twin siblings separated at birth by a shipwreck. Dromio serves Antipholus and is frequently at the receiving end of comic misfortune. Dromio is good-natured but perhaps a little simple Both Dromios are mistaken for each other. Physicality, slapstick skills, and hand-to-hand combat training are a plus.

ADRIANA / ANGELO
Adriana is Antipholus of Ephesus’ wife—a passionate, fierce, and jealous woman (played with a puppet). The actor must also play Angelo, a savvy merchant looking to collect debts.

LUCINDA / OFFICER
Lucinda is Adriana’s unmarried sister and the object of Antipholus of Syracuse’s affection. She is mild-tempered compared to her sister yet able to switch gears when needed (played with a puppet).  The actor also portrays Officer: a constable in the town that wields a lot of power.

AEGON / DR. PINCH
Aegon is an unlucky Syracusian merchant desperately searching for his lost twin sons. If he cannot get someone to pay his bail, he will die before the next sunset due to Ephesus law. The actor must also play Dr. Pinch, an eccentric shaman who performs an exorcism on a “possessed” Antipholus and Dromio.