Bring headshots and resumes if available – if not, don’t worry. Actors will be asked to read from these prepared audition sides. A prepared monologue is not required.

As You Like It will be presented at the Masonic Temple Thursday through Sunday, April 12 through 29.  For more information visit www.montfordparkplayers.org or email info@montfordparkplayers.org.

Asheville NC – The Montford Park Players, North Carolina’s longest running Shakespeare Festival, announces auditions for Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, directed by Jason Williams.  Auditions will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and Sunday, Feb. 12, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St, Asheville 28801.  Free parking is available at Home Trust Bank, 10 Woodfin St.

Bring headshots and resumes if available – if not, don’t worry. Actors will be asked to read from the script and a prepared monologue is not required.

As You Like It will be presented at the Masonic Temple Thursday through Sunday, April 12 through 29.  For more information visit www.montfordparkplayers.org or email info@montfordparkplayers.org.

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The 40th anniversary season will include: The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Richard II.

You may download the application documents at www.montfordparkplayers.org/join-the-theatre/director-applications/ or email john.russell@montfordparkplayers.org.

If you are interested in directing for Montford Park Players, please note that the director stipend is negotiable.  Please indicate in your proposal what your stipend requirements are, and email your application to john.russell@montfordparkplayers.org.

Based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377 – 1399), this Shakespeare history is the first play of a tetralogy, followed by three plays concerning Richard’s successors: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, all of which are familiar to our audiences from past performances. Richard II is the only part of this tetralogy we’ve never staged and will be presented for the very first time at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre.  Unusual for Shakespeare, the play is written almost entirely in verse and features with some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful metaphorical soliloquies on nature and politics as Richard opines poetically while his kingdom slips from his grasp.

This uproarious social comedy features the hilarious courtships of fat knight, Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare’s only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. Falstaff’s attempts to woo 3 different married women result in a turning of the tables and a hilarious comeuppance. We haven’t performed this one since 1995, so you’re in for a real treat!