Southwest Shakespeare Company – Bidding for the Bard
Auction Ends: May 27, 2015 12:00 AM MDT

Unique Experiences

APPEAR IN A PROFESSIONAL THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE of SOUTHWEST SHAKESPEARE in MESA

Item Number
114
Estimated Value
Priceless
Opening Bid
140 USD

Item Description

Think you may be the next Sir John Gielgud? Dame Judi Dench? You don’t know who they are? How about Hugh Jackman? Jennifer Lawrence? You have to start somewhere. Make your debut in a walk-on role in either “Othello” or “The Comedy of Errors” the currently-scheduled January 2016 Winterfest productions of Southwest Shakespeare Company’s 2015-16 Season. You’ll attend rehearsals at our rehearsal space located at 55 E. Main Street in downtown Mesa, Arizona, get fitted for a costume, see your biography in the program and perform on the Virginia G. Piper Repertory stage at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona. AND, six of your closest friends or family will be there to watch from house seats. Rehearsals begin in early December 2015. You won’t be required to attend them all (just one!), but you may want to; they’re fascinating! Must be at least 16 years of age.

 

Item Special Note

We know you know these Shakespeare plays by heart, but just in case…Othello, set in the sun bleached outpost of Cyprus, is a tale that boils with fury, honor, and consuming passions. The Moor Othello, a celebrated general but also an outsider, shares a boundless love with Desdemona, a Venetian aristocrat, but their happiness could be undone by the deceitful Iago, Othello’s military aid.

The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare’s farcical onslaught of mistaken identities, fateful romance and family reunions. Not one but two sets of long-separated twins form the springboard to much confusion, slapstick, and surprise as a family that once was lost but now is found, in a strange, possibly haunted, and madly wonderful land!