As You Like It
by Austin Shakespeare Youth Troupe
Mar. 04 (2017)
Featuring Shakespeare's most fascinating female heroine, Rosalind, As You Like It has everything you love about Shakespeare: mistaken identities, characters in love with the "wrong" person, peril, chance encounters and, of course, a wedding. All this wrapped in the extraordinary poetry of The Bard.
Auditions for Young Shakespeare’s As You Like It
WHEN: 1 pm – 3 pm on Saturday, March 4, 2017
Audition by appointment only
Performances will be June 15 - 25, 2017
WHERE: Austin Playwright’s Studio
5555 N. Lamar Blvd, Bldg K, Ste 125
Austin Texas, 78751
CONTACT: youngshakespeare@austinshakespeare.org
Austin Shakespeare’s professionally directed and designed program, Young Shakespeare, offers a free audition workshop from 1 pm – 3 pm on Saturday, March 4, 2017 for As You Like It. The romantic comedy rehearses on weekends in early May and begins weeknight rehearsals on May 16. Performances will run from June 15 – June 25 at Richard Garriott de Cayeux’s outdoor Curtain Theatre (7400 Coldwater Canyon Drive), Austin's replica of an Elizabethan theater on the shores of Lake Austin. ALL roles are open and diversity is encouraged. The company is also seeking teen vocalists and instrumentalists for some of the roles. If cast, tuition is required and reasonable.
AUDITIONERS MUST SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT. For information or to set up an appointment, contact youngshakespeare@austinshakespeare.org.
This is Young Shakespeare’s ninth year in action. Participating students, ranging in age from 12-19 years, come from throughout the Central Texas area, including Round Rock, Pflugerville, Austin, Westlake and Waco, among other places. The young company will be directed by Austin Shakespeare’s Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella and trained by professional coaches and designers, including Movement and Vocal Coach Nancy Eyermann.
CREATIVE TEAM
Director – Ann Ciccolella
Movement and Vocal Coach – Nancy Eyermann
ROLES IN AS YOU LIKE IT
Rosalind, the Old Duke’s daughter
Celia, Duke Frederick’s daughter
Phebe, a shepherdess
Audrey, a goatherd
Duke Senior, exiled to the Forest of Arden
Duke Frederick, a usurper
Amiens, an exiled lord, sings
Duke Jaques, melancholy lord of Duke Senior
Le Beau, comic courtier of Duke Frederick’s
Charles, the Duke’s wrestler
Oliver, Orlando’s elder brother
Orlando, youngest son of the deceased
Jacques de Boys , long lost brother of Orlando
Adam, the old servant of Sir Rowland’s
Touchstone, Duke Frederick’s jester
Sir Oliver Martext, a country minister
Corin, an old shepherd
Silvius, a young shepherd in love with Phoebe
William, a country-man in love with Audrey
