Casting Call – Page 2 – Sprockets and Springes

Shakespeare at Kentuck

Improbable Fictions will be performing Shakespearean Scenes at the 2016 Kentuck Festival of the Arts’ Spoken Word Tent on Oct 15-16. If you’re interested, chime in! We’re still in the early planning stages. You can contact me at nrhelms@ua.edu. http://www.kentuck.org/the-festival/

Casting Call: Julius Caesar

But to present Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, we need actors. If you’re interested in participating in this staged reading, contact the director, Professor David Ainsworth, at dainsworth@ua.edu. You can find his cut of the script here: JuliusDACut

Tragedy of Tragedies!

On August 15-16, IF will present a staged reading of Henry Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies, or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. But to do that, we need actors. If you’re interested in taking part in our staged reading, email me at nrhelms@crimson.ua.edu. Susie Johnson will be Assistant Director for this show, which willContinue reading “Tragedy of Tragedies!”

IF’s Spring 2012 lineup

This spring, IF will produce two staged readings: Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well at the Greensboro Room on Feb. 15-16, and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata in late March (date and location TBA). If you’re interested in reading for All’s Well, email Nic Helms at nicholashelms@gmail.com. If you’re interested in reading for Lysistrata, email Steve Burch atContinue reading “IF’s Spring 2012 lineup”

IF: Fall lineup and casting call

I’m excited to announce that this semester Improbable Fictions is sponsored by the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, the UA Dept. of English, and the UA College of Arts and Sciences. That means that we’ll be able to hold all our readings this fall in the Greensboro Room of the Bama Theatre. We’re alsoContinue reading “IF: Fall lineup and casting call”

Infinite Monkeys

It might be possible for an infinite number of monkeys, given an infinite amount of time and bananas, to peck out Shakespeare’s Hamlet on a few well-maintained typewriters. Fortunately, Improbable Fictions does not require an infinite number of actors to stage a reading of Shakespeare’s most produced play. In point of fact, we need onlyContinue reading “Infinite Monkeys”