MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

A production team made up entirely of students.

Student-driven and student run!

PRODUCTION INFORMATION:

AUDITIONS: Saturday, Sept 13 (6:00pm-8:30pm)
AGES: 12-18
COST: $99.00 / Month (Running from September - April)
PERFORMANCE: Sunday, April 26 @ University of Winnipeg’s Asper Centre for Theatre and Film
REQUIREMENTS (**NEW**): Students must take 1 additional class at Meraki Theatre for all productions for both the Fall and Winter terms. Our student scholarship fund is available to cover the additional class if students face financial barriers!

Email Taylor at taylor@merakitheatre.com to book an audition for Much Ado About Nothing!

AUDITION SIDES

OPTION 1

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 4, Scene 1

Kill Claudio! You kill me to deny it. Farewell. I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in you: nay, I pray you, let me go. In faith, I will go. You dare easier be friends with me than fight with my enemy. Is Claudio not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands ; and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour, – O, God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place. Talk with a man out at window! A proper saying! Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone. Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant surely! O that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

Context: Beatrice is angry that her cousin, Hero, has been falsely accused by her fiancé, Claudio, of being unfaithful.

OPTION 2

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, Scene 3

This can be no trick. The conference was serious; from Hero they have this. Love me? Why? They say I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come from her. They say, too, that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry. I must not seem proud. They say the lady is fair; ’tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous; ’tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her! Some shots may be fired my way because I have railed so long against marriage, but doth not the appetite alter? Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No! The world must be peopled.

Context: Benedick has just overheard that his long-time enemy (frenemy, at most) is in love with him, and is trying to rationalize his own feelings towards her.

OPTION 3

Romeo and Juliet - Act 3, Scene 1

Nay, a there were two such, we should have none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou, why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling. Thou hast quarreled with a man for coughing in the street because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? With another, for tying his new shoes with old ribbon? And yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling!

Context: This character is teasing his friend for being overly aggressive, and starting fights over nothing.

OPTION 4

Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 3

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.

Context: Don John is saying that he would rather be angry and sad then act happy in front of his more successful brother.