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AUDITION INFORMATION

 

Auditions will be held TUESDAY, 2 JUNE and WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM at Teatro Il Cantiere, Via Gustavo Modena, 92, 00153 Roma RM. Callbacks are slated for the evening of FRIDAY, 5 JUNE.

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To secure an audition slot, complete the form at the bottom of this page. If you cannot make these times, please contact director Carl Granieri at cgranieri@rometheatre.org to arrange an alternative audition time.

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All roles are available. Casting is open to all actors and actresses, all genders and races. Fluency in English is necessary, but no particular accent is required.

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WHAT TO PREPARE

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For auditions, actors are asked to prepare TWO SIDES OF THEIR CHOICE from the play featuring two different characters. ETR will provide a reader for you to work against on the 2nd and 3rd.   

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<  THE SIDES CAN BE FOUND HERE  >

 

Auditioners will be asked to sing two bars of a song a capella. If you play an instrument, please note it in the submission form. When stage management confirms your appointment, they may also ask you to bring along your instrument and play a few bars for the auditor.

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REHEARSALS AND PERFORMANCES

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Rehearsals will take place weekday evenings and weekends from June 15 until July 15. Specific calls to be determined on a weekly basis. Not all actors will be needed for all calls and preexisting conflicts may possible to accommodate.

 

Tech Dates : Mon., 13 July to Wed. 15 July, 2026
 

Anticipated Opening : Thur., 16 June, 2026

Anticipated Run : Thurs-Sun., 16 July through Closing on 26 June, 2026

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SYNOPSIS

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Exiled from court after her father, Duke Senior, is deposed in a coup by his ruthless brother Frederick, Rosalind flees into the Forest of Arden accompanied by her devoted cousin Celia and the court comedian Touchstone. Disguised as a young man named Ganymede, Rosalind enters a world where identities become unstable, old hierarchies begin to dissolve, and nearly everyone who wanders beneath the trees finds themselves transformed in unexpected ways.

Also escaping into the Arden is Orlando, whose father has died, but who has been denied his inheritance and brutalized by his jealous older brother Oliver. Romantic, impulsive, and hopelessly in love with Rosalind, Orlando chases her into exile without realizing she now stands before him disguised as someone else entirely. Seizing on this, Rosalind invents an elaborate emotional game: pretending to "cure" Orlando of his love by having him rehearse romance with her in disguise. What follows is one of Shakespeare’s most exhilarating explorations of performance, gender, longing, and the strange freedoms people discover when they are permitted to play as someone else.

The Arden is a crowded forest. It teems with lovers, cynics, shepherds, philosophers, idiots, and displaced nobles. The melancholy Jaques wanders the forest meditating on mortality and performance (famously “All the world’s a stage…”). The shepherd Silvius desperately pursues the disdainful Phoebe, who in turn becomes infatuated with Rosalind’s male disguise Ganymede. Touchstone pursues the rustic Audrey with comic enthusiasm. Brothers feud, reconcile, and rediscover one another. Courtly identities dissolve beneath the trees. Love spreads through the forest like something intoxicating and impossible to contain. 

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