The Dreamers: A Play of Playing
Project Overview
A reimagination of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the World of Warcraft dreamscape.
The Emerald Dream is an ethereal, untouched realm of the planet Azeroth. Nature, dragons, and wisps, grow, gather, and gander in the Great Garden. Prince Puck, the heir of the Dream's Dreamer, is dispatched to "Brown Azeroth" in an attempt to locate the source of his shaman's maddening migraines.
Hello, actors, my name is Mr. Bohemian. I am a playwright and actor. I typically write for the stage, but soon I will be mounting a production via machinima. I have many fun characters to fill for one long, strange, dream. It is a full length play/machinima of 1.5+ hours. I need the audio narrative complete before visual animation can begin this fall.
For the next two weeks I will be doing auditions. Note, some leads will not be listed on CCC. With the size of the project, I can predict that I will finish with different actors at different rates within a month. I need you to deliver ASAP so I can deal with the sluggers and revisions. I need you to be in contact and available during this time so I may request revisions.
All actors will receive their credits listed under their preferred name/stage name/screen name.
The script is available online: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/712546
The electronic format will help you find your lines easily with CTRL+f. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
- Please send files in mp3 format.
- Provide to me your email for revisions and release notification.
- I need your lines finished within a week's time.
- I need you to reciprocate to revision requests in the future.
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Peacebloom is strong and independent, but not unbendable for humor.
Peacebloom: My name is Princess Peacebloom. We are honored to have the Selene Son atop Wyrmrest Temple. I am your ready einhander, for you my shield and sword are [Flint] and [Steel]! Our journey is half journeyed with me at your back!
Peacebloom: Fly with me, Dreamer; I will show you the safest skies!
Peacebloom: The Big Blue could not have been bolder in his warning of these weary whimsicals...
Tick and Tock are twins. The actor for this character needs to have a slight variation in their tone or voice to convey two people. Please read all the lines requested.
Tock: In fair Zin-Azshari we set our stage. Queen Azshara is set to enjoy a typical evening in her garden.
Tick: I’m Maestro Tick!
Tock: And I’m Maestro Tock!Tick: We have no seconds to waste.
Tock: We have no seconds at all.
Helena is an important lead. She is young, funny, bossy, and kind of annoying.
Helena: No fiends fly through me, no gargoyle given skies, no daemons defile ground, every true-shot’s ‘tween the eyes!
Helena: Sire, when will we be back on our great quest to find the Great Quest?
Helena: I’ll say it to be true. I am the lover and he is the beloved. The object of my endearment is a parasite of my patience. Yet, neither have we contracted to each other the chains of commitment.
Queen Azshara is the notorious Babylonian queen of the World of Warcraft universe. She's royally vain.
Azshara: My fancy fancies another fancy of my fancy. Go pay the painter.
Azshara: The painter will report to his post, lest I flush his family down the Well and have him paint a portrait of it. You will tell him this.
Azshara: Merry, I will be merry. Leave me to my legs.
Oston is a dynamic character. He is cerebral, but he has his emotional moments that cannot be ignored.
Oston: Sire Jenkins, a notable necrolyte, he was vexing when he was alive.
Oston: I have tested your bread, temptress. Against my health pool, it would take approximately two days, sixteen hours, thirty-seven minutes, and forty seconds of back to back stuffing to saturate my stats with your loathly low level loaves.
Oston: Lately, I don’t even feel like my friends are in the friendzone anymore. After all I do for them as raid counselor, the treatment I get is less than charming. I’m thinking about quitting my guild.
Yami is the story's spoofy antagonist. She has some bite, but is able to take a frying pan to the face.
Yami: That old mixer was right about one thing: when it comes to sanity, cooking is half the fun!
Yami: Magnifique, the biscuits of bewilderment are ready to be served. I can’t wait to feed these to the little virgin woodland critters. The twitching turbulence of their possessed panic would quickly put a smile on my late father’s face. Oh Father, rest well in Hell.
Yami: We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. I love the hard way.
Alexstrasza is a pre-existing WoW character. She is a great Majesty and requires a motherly tone. Younger ladies can try to deliver a senior voice.
Alexstrasza: By the Titans, who is this handsome green?
Alexstrasza: Victostrasz, your attitude could use a rope. My duty’s sister brings her king, and you have left your courtesy? I heard his heart upon our burg, and yet you thought to hide him from me?
Alexstrasza: A friend of wit, you are that forest good fellow. I knew you well and first, even within your mother’s meditation. The tickling breeze bristled through the trees, that day the king was born.
Emoish is a smooth talker. She is a self possessed woman with no fear.
Emoish: Give heart, Lady Lacerate, for anyone who can counter a warlock’s contract is either sent to The Nether in ashes… or given a waived application.
Emoish: Of Silvermoon origin, our roster requisites are casual vindication upon casual vanity. He had heart, but not “The Bae.”
Emoish: Page six, section six, paragraph six, “The ‘Bae’ word’s worth, is a combination of the qualifiers, ‘cute’ and ‘petit.’” Gnomes, by diabolical duplicity, qualify these qualifiers and alas, Millhouse.
Cutiekiss is a sour and sweet lady. She has her compliments as she has her pride. No trollish Jamaican accent is needed unless you can thoroughly pull it off.
Cutiekiss: I’ll be showing you why trolls are flipping out. Ever taste a troll’s mojito?
Cutiekiss: Thanks to you, Madam, our mani-pedis will continue to glow with the glory of the Warchief.
Cutiekiss: May I punt the runt, Madam? He would land in Quel’thalas from here.
Millhouse Manastorm is a pre-existing character within canon World of Warcraft. Many who have played understand his puny, demonic, gnomish personality. If you don't have a pathetic voice, you can't be Millhouse.
Millhouse: I am very excited to be with you, ladies. This luggage is only as sweating as my Armageddon fever!
Millhouse: Many a cult I have experimented, from Twilight to Scourge, Legion to Chocolate; none at all fatal by the end of their ropes. In a drought, I scrounged for a scoop of doom, deprived of devil doings, derailed from my destiny.
Millhouse: Oh buttons, you say I’m Bae, Madam?
Azuregos is a bittersweet aristocrat. He adores his own supercilious attitude, but has a soft spot for some.
Azuregos: Though I despise those woeful wizards of the hubris habitat, Dalaran [dah'lah'rahn], their marketplace of magic makes reagent collection many leagues less in legwork. Here is my shopping list.
Azuregos: When I had found myself babysitting this icebox, I began opening the archives the ethereal thieves could not crack. Tomes of infinite vision, weapons of mass destruction, and crystals of infinite energy are such a casual collection here.
Azuregos: Call me a prude and I’ll keep in this cave. The poor boy was burned once for falling in love with a ghost, and now I think he’s perpetuating the problem. What has the most sophisticated species of spell casters come to?
Master Dishu is a lovable, panda sage. He is Puck's father figure from within the Dream. Dishu cannot be young. A middle age/senior voice is required.
Dishu: This was a world born in warcraft. Since her first seeds, she’s had to fight for her soil. The elemental lords, the hated unholies, both bound and banished to the ridges of reality.
Dishu: The family flights have met their ends, but could their dreams endure?
Dishu: A dreamer’s end is morning’s making. Today is your journey to the waking world.
Victostrasz is the fictional, new majordomo of Alexstrasza. He is always on a tight schedule for the blessed Majesty of Red. A little whiny, but still noble.
Victostrasz: You know better than to pester the Queen with the woes of whelps. To the nursery with this one and return to your post.
Victostrasz: My Majesty, are we maids now? Doing our duty about corridors wherever we may, speaking with whomever we may, about whatever we may?
Victostrasz: Your royalty regarded, the Queen is still quarantined. Your meeting could be managed perhaps a week from now, if fortune favors her Majesty a tidy to-do list.
Chromie is a long loved character. She has a stricter duty as director of the Concert of Time. A gnomish, but sober voice is preferable.
Chromie: Vivacimi, your costume is incorrect. There are no humans in Kalimdor during your performance. Get thee into a night elf costume!
Chromie: Andantemu, can you hasten your pace? The Lich King’s performance needs more ice. If the Lich King doesn’t have more ice, he doesn’t become Lich King! It’s as simple as that, dragons!
Chromie: Now who moved my water bottle? It’s not a prop!
Despite the title, Ysera only steps on stage for one scene. She resonates peace from her ethereal plane. She is calm when she speaks.
Ysera: Prince Puck, you are awake. Elune has sent me to bring in her players.
Ysera: You will walk with me, Yami. Elune has a space for you in her stars. At the end of every day, you will consume the great sun.
Ysera: The great moon’s light on your skin is proof that my love has always been with you. Good morning, King Puck.
Please read all the lines to show your variety. This role will have four minor female voices plus Millie Manastorm. Kira Songshine, Vivacimi, Flower, and Brewmaiden are the minors. This actor must have a humorous taste to pull off these characters. in addition to a funny voice for Millie.
Brewmaiden: "Do ye want ta live ferever?"
Kira: Hello, I supply only the finest goods!
Millie: Millhouse! I knew it was you who threw me in the Dalaran slammer! This panda bust me out of jail, just to have a word with you!
Please read all the lines to show your variety. This is for five minor characters, Tenzing, Po, Allegretos, Mage, and Sid.
Mage: Your time is up, O' Noble Narcissist! The world will not split for your stupidity!
Po: The twinkle in her eyes contain the luminosity of all the stars of The Twisting Nether strung together. Her feminine grace is a great gravity that holds my heart in her orbit.
Sid: How many of you are there, seven? Alright, my parents have a gryphon big enough; let’s go.
Please read all the lines to show your variety. This includes three minor characters plus Presto Pete: Tong, Andantemu, and Beebo. These characters require a taste of humor for good delivery.
Pete: The name’s Presto Pete: I’ve got the thing for your zing! You kids want to see my mana wyrm? Slippery and sweet like a tender toad!
Beebo: The Lich King gave my body and mind quite the detour, Cutiekiss. I see specs of my skeleton in that axe you’re axin’. I’ll be taking my ribs, I’ll be taking my fibula, and I’ll be taking them home now.
Tong: Ahoy, boys, the mainland ship is in! Ladies linger the lounge!
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