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Audition Notices

A Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare
directed by Gary Andrews

Auditions:

7:30PM Monday, 31 March 2025, in the Bar

Playing dates: Saturday, 09 August 2025 until Sunday, 17 August 2025

About the Production:

Performances will be 9/10/16/17 Aug 2025, matinees only.

Doubling will depend on turnout. There are 17 characters but the play can be performed by as few as 7.

The style of the production will again depend on the casting/doubling but will be fast and funny.

Roles:

  • Antipholus of Ephesus
    Antipholus of Syracuse
    - early 20s, male, twin brothers and sons to Aegeon and Aemelia, leading role
  • Dromio of Ephesus
    Dromio of Syracuse
    - early 20s, male, twin brothers and attendants on the two Antipholuses, leading role
  • Adriana - female, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus, leading role
  • Luciana - female, her sister, leading role
  • Aegeon - 40+, male, a merchant of Syracuse, only in 2 scenes but with a HUGE speech at the start
  • Angelo - any age, any gender, a goldsmith, in a handful of scenes
  • A Courtezan - any age, female, in a handful of scenes
  • Officer - any age, any gender, a thick cop, in a handful of scenes
  • Second Merchant - any age, any gender, to whom Angelo is a debtor, 2 scenes only
  • Solinus - any age, any gender, Duke of Ephesus, 2 scenes only
  • Pinch - any age, any gender, a mad scientist type, 1 scene only
  • Amelia - 40+, female, wife to Aegeon; an abbess, 1 scene only
  • First Merchant - any age, any gender, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse, 1 scene only
  • Balthazar - any age, any gender, a merchant, 1 scene only
  • Messenger - any age, any gender, 1 scene only
N.B.
  • Ages are a rough guide.