

Measure for Measure
Campbell Building, Rm 137
2396 Crabbe St., Richmond, KY
Please prepare a 1 minute long Shakespeare monologue and bring your resume with a headshot
AUDITIONS
WED. MAY 11
6-9pm
The Appalachian Shakespeare Center is back in Lexington this summer and wading into deep theatrical waters. Rarely performed and problematic, Shakespeare’s morally murky Measure for Measure takes the stage at Woodland Park and at EKU’s Ravine.
The Duke of Venice abdicates his power to the fiercely stern Angelo who cracks down on the wild goings on in their corrupt society. Making an example out of the guilty Claudio, Angelo sentences him to death for fathering a child out of wedlock. When Isabella, sister to Claudio and a budding Nun, comes to beg for her brother’s life Angelo’s mask of righteousness crumbles and he offers an obscene bargain for clemency. Surrounding this indecent proposal is a rabble of clownish pimps, idiotic authority figures, and hypocritical nobles that keep the play as relevant today as it was four hundred years ago.
Performing:
Woodland Park, Lexington at 7:30pm EKU’s Ravine, Richmond at 7:30pm
July 14-16, 21-23 July 29,30
Tickets available at the gate for
$15 General Admission
$10 Students, Seniors, Veterans
