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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Man on the Internet Edition
Project Overview
Hey everyone! Man on the Internet here. For my first major non-musical project, I’m going deep into the public domain and doing one of my favorite Shakespeare plays - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a comedy about lovers, fairies, and people trying their damnedest to act. This is to make a primarily audio-based production of a play that’s been produced many, many times, and give it the Man on the Internet charm that my previous projects have been known for! Most of the information about auditioning can be found in this Google document, and I can put lines in here in case something goes wrong on Google's end and it won't display anything, but I'll be putting the basics here just in case -
- While you can obviously send auditions through Casting Call Club because that's what it's for, you can also send auditions to (CCC redacted my email but it's in the video and google doc), with the subject line “Midsummer Auditions.” This way is slightly faster for me to organize. Or, if you already know me on Discord you may send auditions through there instead.
- The deadline is November 15th, 2018, at Midnight Central Time (UTC-6).
- If you email auditions rather than post them here, they should all be mp3 or wav files (basically audio files, not video files), with one file per character, in a .zip file labelled [MidsummerAuditions_YourName]. Individual audio files should be labelled [CharacterName_YourName] (e.g. Oberon_Alex). No slate. For Casting Call Club this is the default (minus the .zip part) so if you've been auditioning for anything, you've been doing that already!
- Some roles will be required to sing, and these will be noted on the side. If you audition for one of these roles, add a sample of your singing to the end of your audition file (so at the end of Oberon_Alex.mp3, after the dialogue, would be me singing.) Keep it no longer than a minute.)
- Please no overdone British accents! I'm trying to keep peoples' natural accents, or at least one they can convincingly do, rather than have everyone be an overacting American trying to sound British.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about auditioning, let me know and I will do my best to address them in a timely manner!
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Voice Actor
Theseus
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Unpaid
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Candourlight
The duke of Athens. Theseus is a hero from Greek mythology - he refers to the fact that he’s Hercules’ cousin at one point - so his presence signals to the viewer that the play takes place in a mythical Greek past. At the beginning of the play, Theseus has recently returned from conquering the Amazons, a race of warrior women, and is about to marry the conquered Amazon queen, Hippolyta. Because of this impending wedding, the mood of the play is one of holiday festivity, characterized by a heightened sense of erotic expectation and anticipation. Theseus himself projects confidence, authority, and benevolent power.
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace; four happy days bring in another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, like to a step-dame or a dowager long withering out a young man revenue.
Go, Philostrate, stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve: Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn as much as we this night have overwatch'd. This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled the heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed. A fortnight hold we this solemnity, in nightly revels and new jollity.
Voice Actor
Hippolyta
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Unpaid
The legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to marry Theseus. Although Hippolyta is marrying Theseus because he defeated her in combat, she does not act at all like an unwilling bride. Theseus is very courtly in his manner toward Hippolyta, and she is unfailingly deferential toward him.
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, when in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear with hounds of Sparta: never did I hear such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves, the skies, the fountains, every region near seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
But all the story of the night told over, and all their minds transfigured so together, more witnesseth than fancy's images and grows to something of great constancy; But, howsoever, strange and admirable.
Voice Actor
Egeus
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A respected nobleman in Theseus’ court. Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter, Hermia, refuses to marry Demetrius, Egeus’ choice for her. Egeus’ wish to control his daughter is quite severe - he asks Theseus to impose the death penalty on her if she refuse to marry Demetrius. Theseus, however, reduces the penalty for noncompliance from death to life as a nun.
Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord, this man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke, this man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child; Thou, thou, Lysander, hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart, turn'd her obedience, which is due to me, to stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke, be it so she will not here before your grace consent to marry with Demetrius, I beg the ancient privilege of Athens, as she is mine, I may dispose of her: Which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death, according to our law immediately provided in that case.
Voice Actor
Hermia
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Egeus’ daughter. Hermia is a beautiful young woman of Athens, and both Demetrius and Lysander are in love with her. Hermia defies her father’s wish that she marry Demetrius because she is in love with Lysander. She is unusually strong-willed and independent - refusing to comply even when Theseus orders her to obey her father - and resolved to elope with Lysander. Hermia is also the childhood friend of Helena.
I do entreat your grace to pardon me. I know not by what power I am made bold, nor how it may concern my modesty, in such a presence here to plead my thoughts; But I beseech your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case, if I refuse to wed Demetrius.
My good Lysander! I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow, by his best arrow with the golden head, by all the vows that ever men have broke, in number more than ever women spoke, in that same place thou hast appointed me, to-morrow truly will I meet with thee.
Voice Actor
Lysander
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A young nobleman of Athens in love with Hermia. Although Hermia’s father refuses to let her marry Lysander, Lysander believes that love must conquer all obstacles, so he persuades Hermia to run away from her home and family with him, into the forest.
I am, my lord, as well derived as he, as well possess'd; my love is more than his; My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd, if not with vantage, as Demetrius'; And, which is more than all these boasts can be, I am beloved of beauteous Hermia: Why should not I then prosecute my right?
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! Love takes the meaning in love's conference. I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit so that but one heart we can make of it; Two bosoms interchained with an oath; So then two bosoms and a single troth. Then by your side no bed-room me deny; For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.
Voice Actor
Demetrius
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A young nobleman of Athens. In the past, Demetrius acted as if he loved Helena, but after Helena fell in love with him, he changed his mind and pursued Hermia. Emboldened by Egeus’ approval of him, Demetrius is undeterred by the fact that Hermia does not want him.
I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. Where is Lysander and fair Hermia? The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me. Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood; And here am I, and wode within this wood, because I cannot meet my Hermia. Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.
O, why rebuke you him that loves you so? Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. You spend your passion on a misprised mood: I am not guilty of Lysander's blood; Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.
Voice Actor
Helena
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A young woman of Athens in love with Demetrius. Helena has been rejected and abandoned by Demetrius, who had claimed to love her before he met her best friend, Hermia. Consequently, Helena tends to speak in a self-pitying tone. Moreover, she puts herself in dangerous and humiliating situations, running through the forest at night after Demetrius even though Demetrius wants nothing to do with her.
Call you me fair? that fair again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair! Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air more tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, when wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. Sickness is catching: O, were favour so, yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go; My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye, my tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody. Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, the rest I'd give to be to you translated. O, teach me how you look, and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
Voice Actor
Puck
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AKA Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. Puck is Oberon’s jester, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the play. At Oberon’s bidding, Puck sprinkles “love juice” in the eyes of various characters to change who they love, but he makes mistakes in his application that create conflicts Oberon never intended. Though Puck claims to make these mistakes honestly, he enjoys the conflict and mayhem that his mistakes cause.
Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon and make him smile when I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, neighing in likeness of a filly foal: And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, in very likeness of a roasted crab, and when she drinks, against her lips I bob and on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, and 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough; And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, and waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear a merrier hour was never wasted there. But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.
Voice Actor
Oberon
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Unpaid
*This role has singing*
The king of the fairies. Oberon begins the play at odds with his wife, Titania, because she refuses to relinquish control of a young Indian prince whom she has kidnapped, but whom Oberon wants for a knight. Oberon’s desire for revenge on Titania leads him to send Robin to obtain the love-potion flower that creates so much of the play’s confusion and farce.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight: And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes, And make her full of hateful fantasies. Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove: A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes; But do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady: thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on. Effect it with some care, that he may prove more fond on her than she upon her love: and look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
Voice Actor
Titania
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Unpaid
*This role has singing*
The beautiful queen of the fairies. Titania resists the attempts of her husband, Oberon, to make a knight of the young Indian prince whom she has taken. Until Oberon gives up his demand, Titania has sworn to avoid his company and his bed. She is less upset by the fact that she and Oberon are apart than by the fact that Oberon has been disrupting her and her followers’ magic fairy dances.
Set your heart at rest: The fairy land buys not the child of me. His mother was a votaress of my order: And, in the spiced Indian air, by night, full often hath she gossip'd by my side, and sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, marking the embarked traders on the flood, when we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive and grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--Would imitate, and sail upon the land, to fetch me trifles, and return again, as from a voyage, rich with merchandise. But she, being mortal, of that boy did die; nd for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not part with him.
Voice Actor
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed
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Unpaid
*This role has singing*
Four fairies from Titania’s attendants, whom she orders to wait on Bottom after she falls in love with him. They’re similar enough to share a role.
You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, Come not near our fairy queen.
I must go seek some dewdrops here and hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all our elves come here anon.
Voice Actor
Bottom
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Unpaid
*This role has singing, though to be fair the ability to carry a tune is questionable*
The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in a play that a group of craftsmen have decided to put on for Theseus’ wedding celebration. Bottom is full of advice and self-confidence but frequently makes silly mistakes and misuses language. His simultaneous nonchalance about the beautiful Titania’s sudden love for him and unawareness of the fact that Puck has transformed his head into that of an ass mark the pinnacle of his foolish arrogance.
That will ask some tears in the true performing of it: if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.
(As Pyramus) Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this! But what see I? No Thisby do I see. O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss! Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!
Voice Actor
Quince
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Unpaid
A carpenter and the nominal leader of the craftsmen’s attempt to put on a play for Theseus’ marriage celebration. Quince is often shoved aside by the abundantly confident Bottom. During the craftsmen’s play, Quince plays the Prologue.
You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man: therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
(As Prologue, every punctuation is misplaced but necessary for the joke) If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to offend, but with good will. To show our simple skill, that is the true beginning of our end. Consider then we come but in despite.
Voice Actor
Flute
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Unpaid
The bellows-mender chosen to play Thisbe in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’ marriage celebration. Forced to play a young girl in love, the bearded craftsman determines to speak his lines in a high, squeaky voice.
What is Thisbe? A wandering knight? Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming!
(As Thisbe) Asleep, my love? What, dead, my dove? O Pyramus, arise! Speak, speak. Quite dumb? Dead, dead? A tomb must cover thy sweet eyes.
Voice Actor
Starveling
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The tailor chosen to play Thisbe’s mother in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’ marriage celebration. Robin Starveling ends up playing the part of Moonshine.
I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.
(As Moonshine) All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.
Voice Actor
Snout
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The tinker chosen to play Pyramus’ father in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’ marriage celebration. Tom Snout ends up playing the part of Wall, dividing the two lovers.
Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion!
(As Wall) This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show that I am that same wall; the truth is so: And this the cranny is, right and sinister, through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
Voice Actor
Snug
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The joiner chosen to play the lion in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’ marriage celebration. Snug worries that his roaring will frighten the ladies in the audience.
Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
(As Lion) Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am a lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam; For, if I should as lion come in strife into this place, 'twere pity on my life.
Voice Actor
Philostrate
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Theseus’ Master of Revels, responsible for organizing the entertainment for the duke’s marriage celebration. Probably hates being classified alongside the Rude Mechanicals.
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, which makes it tedious; for in all the play there is not one word apt, one player fitted: And tragical, my noble lord, it is; For Pyramus therein doth kill himself. Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess, made mine eyes water; but more merry tears the passion of loud laughter never shed.
Artist
Artists
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Due to the nature of my work, being internet based and not live on a stage, original artwork provides much of the visuals in the video while people are performing. This is to help us stand out from other audio dramas on YouTube. Send a portfolio of your work (.zip file with at least ten pieces, or some other method of gathering pieces in one place) either through Casting Call Club or to my email with the subject line “Midsummer - Artist Portfolio”
NOTICE - artwork for Midsummer will be done with “sprites” and backgrounds, similar to the skits done for Camp Streamix on Internet Remix (another channel I'm a part of). Artists signing on must be willing to keep to a uniform style!
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Audio Engineer
Sound Mixer
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Unpaid
While A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not a musical, there are still a few songs that require volume balance, timing, tuning, etc. Plus it’s dialogue heavy, and without the benefit of actors being live on stage, panning and sound effects will help bring Athens and the Athenian Wood to life. Send a portfolio of your work (no commentary over, please, if only because it’s sound-based and we need to hear!) either through Casting Call Club or to my email with the subject line “Midsummer - Mixer Portfolio”
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Director
Assistant Director
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Unpaid
Because I’m juggling multiple projects at once, I’m taking on an assistant director for this project, someone who can help make sure files get turned in and organized on time. This role would be in charge of making sure the project is running smoothly and helping communicate with the cast and crew when I can’t be there. Send a cover letter detailing your project managing and/or organizational skills (and an example of previous work, if available) either through Casting Call Club or through my email with the subject line “Midsummer - Assistant Director”
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