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Auditions for The Merchant of Venice at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 5 & 6

Auditions for The Merchant of Venice at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 5 & 6

The Rude Mechanicals announce auditions for:

The Merchant of Venice
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Claudia Bach

Monday, February 5, 2018, 8pm, Greenbelt Community Center, Room 202, 15 Crescent Road Greenbelt, MD 20770.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 8pm, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway Greenbelt, MD 20768.

Callbacks: Friday, February 9, 8pm. Greenbelt, MD

Performances: June 15-30 at the Greenbelt Arts Center in Greenbelt, MD.

Rehearsals will be held weekday evenings in Greenbelt, MD.

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

All that glisters is not gold. So warns Shakespeare’s increasingly relevant problem play. Through the story of several characters caught in a world rampant with antisemitism and hate, Shakespeare invites us to ask ourselves what makes a villain? What makes a hero? Where do we draw the line between justice and cruelty? And that perhaps the divide between the two is not as simple as we might like to think.

For more information see http://www.rudemechanicals.com/

Tags: Auditions, Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Rude Mechanicals, The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare, Claudia Bach

Rude Mechanicals present Arden Now (As You Like It) at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Aug 18-Sep 3

Rude Mechanicals present Arden Now (As You Like It) at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Aug 18-Sep 3

The Rude Mechanicals present
Arden Now (As You Like It)
By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Melissa Schick, Diana Dzikiewicz, and The Company
Director: Melissa Schick
Assistant Director: Eric Honour
Composer: Diana Dzikiewicz

August 18 to September 3, 2017

PARENTAL ADVISORY: Recommended for ages 13 and up. This show contains profanity.

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Using William Shakespeare’s As You Like It as a framework, this play celebrates the diversity of love using modern concepts of romance, relationships, gender, and sexuality. The show takes place in a gender blank alternate universe where gendered pronouns are unnecessary. The story line is also altered to represent love in its many forms. We feature monogamous relationships, polyamorous relationships, kinky relationships, and asexual queerplatonic friendship. The show is scored with live music and we borrow songs and poems from other sources to round out the experience. You’ll even see Shakespeare in languages including Spanish, French, Tamil, Italian, and ASL. Come see the delightful chaos in the Forest of Arden, and see it resolved by Hymen, the God of Enthusiastic Consent, along with a special appearance from Orlando’s long lost sibling to wrap the whole thing up in a bow. You might even get a snack at the end, we’re just saying.

This collaborative adaptation sets Shakespeare’s As You Like It in a world where ideals of beauty and desirability are more celebratory of people’s unique individuality and where mainstream society does not attempt to impose a restrictive binary concept of gender to categorize people. Striving to tell this classic story in ways that are fully inclusive, body-positive, and sex-positive, the Rude Mechanicals have cut the original text down, made some creative edits, and have added music, movement, and poetry that express love and exuberance through a variety of times, cultures, and genres. Because if all the world’s a stage, everyone should be represented.

Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy tickets here.

Tags: Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Rude Mechanicals, As You Like It, William Shakespeare, Melissa Schick, Eric Honour, Diana Dzikiewicz

Rude Mechanicals present She Speaks! at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jun 2-18

Rude Mechanicals present She Speaks! at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jun 2-18

The Rude Mechanicals present
She Speaks!
Directed by Leanne Stump.

June 2 to 18, 2017
Thursday, June 1 – 8pm
Friday, June 2 – 8pm
Saturday, June 3 – 8pm
Friday, June 9 – 8pm
Saturday, June 10 – 8pm
Sunday, June 11 (matinee) – 2pm
Friday, June 16 – 8pm
Saturday June 17 – 8pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Shakespeare’s Women in Their Own Words
Adapted from the works of William Shakespeare

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive:
They are the ground, the books, the academes
From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.

Though the men take the title, the women oft steal the show. From Beatrice’s sharp wit to Juliet’s broken heart, the fairer sex have just as much to say as their male counterparts. Adapted from the works of William Shakespeare, this new piece laces together the voices of Shakespeare’s most memorable women.

Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy tickets here.

Auditions for She Speaks by the Rude Mechanicals, Mar 27-28

Auditions for She Speaks by the Rude Mechanicals, Mar 27-28

Auditions for She Speaks!
A showcase of Shakespeare’s women.
Directed by Leanne G. Stump

March 27 & 28, 2017 at 8-10pm
Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, Beltsville Professional Center, 10774 Rhode Island Avenue, Beltsville, MD

Rehearsals will begin in April, and will be held in Greenbelt.

Performance dates: June 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th and 17th

The Rude Mechanicals are seeking up to 5 men and 12 women for their production of She Speaks!, which showcases the best of Shakespeare’s female characters weaving together scenes from over 13 of Shakespeare’s plays.

Male Roles include Petruchio, Romeo, Benedick, Brutus, Troilus and Lord Capulet
Female Roles include Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Portia, Beatrice, Katherine, Ophelia, Rosalind, and many more

Performance Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

For more information, see: http://www.rudemechanicals.com/

Henry V at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Sep 1-11

Henry V at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Sep 1-11

The Rude Mechanicals present:
Henry V
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Rebecca Speas

September 1 – 10, 2016

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Henry IV is dead. An untested Prince Hal sits on the throne, having forsaken the taverns and raucous days of his youth. England, still reeling from years of rebellion and civil strife, has fallen into an uneasy peace. Determined to unite his troubled realm against a common enemy, the young Henry V musters his armies and sets forth across the water to conquer France for the crown. But as the English army burns its way through the French countryside, and the personal cost of battle becomes more and more dire, Henry must wrestle with the havoc he has caused and what it really means to be a king.

September 1 – 10
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sunday at 2:00

Ticket prices: $20 General Admission, $16 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult)