Julius Caesar Rehearsal and Performance Times
Rehearsals
Our current rehearsal schedule includes evenings and weekends from February 23, 7pm-11pm to April 16 Dress Rehearsal 7pm-11pm. All rehearsals will be four hours long unless noted otherwise: 7pm-11pm on Weekday evenings, 12pm -4pm on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I can work around all kinds of schedules, but I Need Those Schedules, so please be thorough when completing your Google Forms information, and don't hesitate to send me an email at BareBonesShakespeare@gmail.com if another conflict occurs to you. No actor or crew member will be required to be present for more than 5 days in a calendar week, but EVERY, let me stress, EVERY actor or crew member assigned to a rehearsal must call or text 469-701-3228 or other provided Stage Manager's numbers if you even suspect that you will be one minute late. Come on, folks, you can read your map app. Better to tell us that you might be late and turn up early than hope that you'll make it through the impossible traffic early and arrive late, or worse, no-call no-show. I do not hold with such shenanigans. Be told.
Performances
Since this is a touring production, we will gain more performances as the weeks go on. Dallas Public Library has tentatively requested April 17th, 23rd, and 30th, all Saturday matinees at TBD locations (various branch libraries have black box theatres throughout the metroplex). We will also be adding performances for other cities, for schools, prisons, community centers, senior centers, etc. This is why it is vitally important that every actor submit documentation of Covid vaccines. We want to assure our audiences that they don't have to fear our beautiful faces.
Director's Note: Understudies and Alternate Tracks
Since its inception, Bare Bones Shakespeare has required that every actor (yes, EVERY actor) play multiple roles in every production. (When founder Julia G Nelson played Hamlette in Hamlette, she also played Messenger #2. And cleaned the toilets herself, thank you very much.)
COVID-19 has created a different world and it requires us to create new rehearsal practices. In order to keep our Julius Caesar tour adaptable to such circumstances as, for instance, an actor getting sick and having to miss a performance, every actor will learn not one, but TWO doubling tracks.
There will be 5 main tracks, for characters such as Caesar, Cassius, Brutus, Antony, and so on. Each of these tracks will include multiple roles.
There will be 3 ensemble tracks, for characters such as Cobbler, Sooth-Sayer, Citizen #4, and so on. Each of these tracks will include multiple roles.
The ensemble is a huge presence in Julius Caesar. Our whole cast's connectivity with each other and development of mob dynamics will help us create the overall impressions, moods, morals, and most of all, questions that we want to leave our audience with at the end of the show.
Each ensemble actor (Soothsayer, for example) will learn their own roles, and then about halfway through rehearsals, will start learning their understudy track (Caesar, for example). For shorthand's sake, we will call these casting choices for each actor Track 1 and Track 2.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The 5 main tracks will also learn a secondary track. Everyone will learn the play from the perspective of their roles in Track 1, and then everyone will learn the play as they perform the roles in their Track 2.
I know, I know, it sounds impossible. But I have prepared a system of costuming, rehearsals, collaboration, and training that will allow each actor to play each character with confidence and conviction, regardless of whether they are performing their first set of characters or their characters from Track 2. In order to find out what that system is, of course, you will need to audition. Rest assured, however, that I intend to give you as much practice with your language, characterization, and blocking in Track 1 before I switch you over to Track 2, and your Track 2 will have something of a safety net if you have to go onstage before you're ready. I take care of my people, but you have to come in excited, exuberant, and prepared.
So, if you're ready to take the plunge, hit the button!
COVID-19 has created a different world and it requires us to create new rehearsal practices. In order to keep our Julius Caesar tour adaptable to such circumstances as, for instance, an actor getting sick and having to miss a performance, every actor will learn not one, but TWO doubling tracks.
There will be 5 main tracks, for characters such as Caesar, Cassius, Brutus, Antony, and so on. Each of these tracks will include multiple roles.
There will be 3 ensemble tracks, for characters such as Cobbler, Sooth-Sayer, Citizen #4, and so on. Each of these tracks will include multiple roles.
The ensemble is a huge presence in Julius Caesar. Our whole cast's connectivity with each other and development of mob dynamics will help us create the overall impressions, moods, morals, and most of all, questions that we want to leave our audience with at the end of the show.
Each ensemble actor (Soothsayer, for example) will learn their own roles, and then about halfway through rehearsals, will start learning their understudy track (Caesar, for example). For shorthand's sake, we will call these casting choices for each actor Track 1 and Track 2.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The 5 main tracks will also learn a secondary track. Everyone will learn the play from the perspective of their roles in Track 1, and then everyone will learn the play as they perform the roles in their Track 2.
I know, I know, it sounds impossible. But I have prepared a system of costuming, rehearsals, collaboration, and training that will allow each actor to play each character with confidence and conviction, regardless of whether they are performing their first set of characters or their characters from Track 2. In order to find out what that system is, of course, you will need to audition. Rest assured, however, that I intend to give you as much practice with your language, characterization, and blocking in Track 1 before I switch you over to Track 2, and your Track 2 will have something of a safety net if you have to go onstage before you're ready. I take care of my people, but you have to come in excited, exuberant, and prepared.
So, if you're ready to take the plunge, hit the button!