Arts & Science Center in PB calling community members to audition for “Macbeth” performance
Auditions for “Macbeth” will be held at The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas’s ART WORKS facility, 627 S. Main St., on Sunday, Aug. 15-Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Auditions are open to community members age 18 and older.
To register for the auditions, visit asc701.org/auditions.
Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22 and Oct. 29, Saturday, Oct. 23 and Oct. 30, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 and Oct. 31. This production is sponsored by Simmons Bank.
Performers are asked to familiarize themselves with Shakespearian speech and prepare a 1- to 2-minute monologue from “Macbeth.” Resources such as shakespearemonologues.org/plays/33 and enotes.com/topics/how-tounderstand-shakespeareslanguage will provide those wishing to audition a better understanding.
Callbacks are scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19.
In this classic play, dark deeds are afoot as Macbeth and his lady risk it all for the ultimate prize. Shakespeare’s haunting drama of political intrigue and personal frailty is brought to light in an immersive visual world where “nothing is but what is not.”
“Macbeth” will be the second production in the 65-seat Adam B. Robinson, Jr. Black Box Theater, at ASC’s new ART WORKS facility.
Martin Carty, an Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas theater veteran will direct the classic Shakespeare play “Macbeth.” His recent production involvement includes ASC’s 2020 virtual production “Clue: Stay at Home Version” as Colonel Mustard, and in 2019’s “A Christmas Story” as The Old Man.
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St. in Pine Bluff, is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gallery admission is free.
Support for ASC is provided in part by the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas Endowment Fund, Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Pine Bluff, and the Pine Bluff Advertising & Promotion Commission. ASC is a member of the Discovery Network, a statewide program of the Museum of Discovery.
For more information and to sign up for upcoming event announcements, visit asc701.org.