Casting "Twelfth Night," a 75-minute version of Shakespeare's play. Performances will be in an outdoor stage in downtown Newnan's Greenville Street Park. Actors will be asked to play multiple parts due to condensing the script to be for 6 to 7 acting tracks.
Viola/Cesario and others: Lead, Female, 18+
a young woman of aristocratic birth, and the play’s protagonist. Washed up on the shore of Illyria when her ship is wrecked in a storm, Viola decides to make her own way in the world. She disguises herself as a young man, calling herself "Cesario," and becomes a page to Duke Orsino. She ends up falling in love with Orsino—even as Olivia, the woman Orsino is courting, falls in love with Cesario. Thus, Viola finds that her clever disguise has entrapped her: she cannot tell Orsino that she loves him, and she cannot tell Olivia why she, as Cesario, cannot love her.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Required Media: Headshot/Photo
Orsino and others: Lead, Male, 18+
a powerful nobleman in the country of Illyria. Orsino is lovesick for the beautiful Lady Olivia, but becomes more and more fond of his handsome new page boy, Cesario, who is actually a woman—Viola. Orsino is a vehicle through which the play explores the absurdity of love: a supreme egotist, Orsino mopes around complaining how heartsick he is over Olivia, when it is clear that he is chiefly in love with the idea of being in love and enjoys making a spectacle of himself. His attraction to the ostensibly male Cesario injects sexual ambiguity into his character.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Required Media: Headshot/Photo
Olivia, and others: Lead, Female, 18+
a wealthy, beautiful, and noble Illyrian lady, Olivia is courted by Orsino and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, but to each of them she insists that she is in mourning for her brother, who has recently died, and will not marry for seven years.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Sebastian, and others: Lead, Male, 18+
Viola’s lost twin brother. When he arrives in Illyria, traveling with Antonio, his close friend and protector, Sebastian discovers that many people think that they know him. Furthermore, the beautiful Lady Olivia, whom he has never met, wants to marry him.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Required Media: Headshot/Photo
Malvolio, and others: Lead, Male, 18+
the straitlaced steward—or head servant—in the household of Lady Olivia. Malvolio is very efficient but also very self-righteous, and he has a poor opinion of drinking, singing, and fun.
Required Media: Headshot/Photo
Antonio, and others: Lead, All Genders, 18+
a man who rescues Sebastian after his shipwreck. Antonio has become very fond of Sebastian, caring for him, accompanying him to Illyria, and furnishing him with money—all because of a love so strong that it seems to be romantic in nature. Antonio’s attraction to Sebastian, however, never bears fruit.
Required Media: Headshot/Photo
Estimated payment amount: US$300.00 for 21 days of work
Additional: Free housing can be provided for actors in need.
Rehearsal and Production Dates & Locations
Rehearsals will be beginning around the second week of August at a TBD indoor rehearsal space; technical dress rehearsal will be in the park on September 1; runs September 2 and 3 followed by a matinee on the 4 in Newnan, GA.
Newnan, GA; Atlanta, GA
