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Audition notice for the Rondo Theatre Company's summer production, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew!
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Performances will take place Wednesday 18th - Saturday 21st June 2025 at the Rondo Theatre in Bath
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The Taming of the Shrew, but not as you know it. This production is going to play with gender roles by turning the table on Petruchio, Kate, Bianca and the suitors. Would we feel the same if Petruchio was a woman and Kate was a man? How does the language used within the play make us feel when the script is flipped? Come along and find out!
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This is an inclusive space and all are welcome. Rather than a 'gender swapped' production, the director, Jazz Hazelwood, prefers to think of it as gender queered and wants to create a space to play with gender expectations and assumptions.
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M and F indicate masculine or feminine presentation, not male or female, and all gender identities are welcome.
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If you would like to see the audition scenes ahead of time, please email Jazz (jazzghazelwood@gmail.com) and they will be happy to send you the scenes. They also encourage you to print these on alternative paper, if needed, to bring to the audition, to make your audition experience as comfortable as possible.
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Petruchio (large) F, 35+ “The Tamer”
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Katherine (large) M, 30+ “The Shrew”
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Bianca (medium) M, 20+ Baptista’s youngest son
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Baptista Minola (medium) F, 50+ Mother to Katherine and Bianca
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Gremio (large) F, 35+ Suitor to Bianca
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Hortensio (medium) F, any age Suitor to Bianca: Ideally can play a string instrument.
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Lucentio (large) F, 20+ Suitor to Bianca
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Tranio (medium) F, 20+ Servant to Lucentio
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Biondello (medium) M/F, any age Servant to Lucentio
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Grumio (large) M/F, any age Servant to Petruchio
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Curtis (small) M/F, any age Servant to Petruchio
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Vincentio (small) F, 50+ Lucentio’s mother
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A merchant (small) F, 50+ Later disguised as Vincentio
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Tailor (small) M/F, any age
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Servants to Baptista and Petruchio (non-speaking) M/F, any age.
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If you have any questions, please email Jazz at jazzghazelwood@gmail.com, who will be more than happy to answer any questions.
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Please note that this is an unpaid opportunity to perform with a community theatre company.
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Social play reading:
Wyrd Sisters
by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
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Tuesday 11th March, 6pm for a 6.30pm start
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at the Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath, BA1 2RH
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All are welcome to our unrehearsed play readings where we get together to read and discuss a play, as well as have a chat and some snacks. Feel free to bring some nibbles and a drink to share - there will be time for socialising and discussing the script as well as reading.
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(If you think you might be late, come any way! You will still have the opportunity to read.)
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Our first play reading of 2025 will be Stephen Briggs's stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's wildly popular fantasy comedy, 'Wyrd Sisters'.
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A bit about the play...
'Wyrd Sisters' is part of Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series - a fantasy comedy series set on a flat world, supported by four elephants on a giant space turtle...
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First published in 1988, the critically acclaimed novel was adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs in 1991, to equally enthusiastic reviews, leading it to be performed many times over the next 35 years or so, and Briggs adapting many more of Pratchett's Discworld novels for the stage.
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From the blurb...
Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and then turns it up 'till the knob comes off. It's all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches. Granny Weatherwax (intolerant, self-opinionated, powerful), Nanny Ogg (down-to-earth, vulgar) and Magrat Garlick (naive, fond of occult jewellery and bunnies).
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5 female characters and 6 male characters (although at our social play readings everyone can have a go regardless of gender!)
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We'll read the whole script over the course of the evening (script in hand) and everyone who attends should have the opportunity to read a section if they wish - or you are welcome to come and just listen.
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Let us know you're attending by emailing therondotheatrecompany@gmail.com
Please note that the room we are using at the Museum of Bath at Work is accessed via three flights of stairs.
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Coming soon to the Rondo Theatre:
flatpack
by John Hodge
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Wednesday 26th - Sunday 29th March 2025, 7.30pm
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at the Rondo Theatre, St. Saviours Road, Bath, BA1 6RT
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The Rondo Theatre Company are proud to present flatpack.
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An unmissable opportunity to be the first to see a brand-new play by Bath-based and BAFTA award winning writer, John Hodge, well known for his work on the films Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach and the Olivier Award winning play, Collaborators.
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Hannah and David. A happily married couple house-hunting in a difficult market. A quiet life – nothing unusual ever happens. Until it does. A note through the door, with a simple, short, and very much to the point, message: "David Green, you are going to die in 3 months' time. With the arrival of that note, their world unravels... Who wrote it? Why? What does it all mean?
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With an eclectic cast of enthusiastic estate agents, philosophical detectives, greedy doctors and morally bankrupt kitchen designers, you can be sure that nothing is what it seems in this surreal comedy of life, death and home improvements.
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