Below are the audition scenes for HAMLET. You'll be asked to read a couple of these scenes for Shakespeare auditions on either Wed, June 5 [3:00 in the auditorium] or Friday, June 7 [2:15 in the auditorium]. If you're interested, using No Fear Shakespeare or any other resource is suggested to help you be familiar with these scenes.




HAMLET:      HAMLET  AND OPHELIA.    3.1.  Nunnery Scene

OPHELIA.  My lord, I have remembrances of yours,
That I have longed long to re-deliver;
I pray you, now receive them.

HAMLET. No, not I;
I never gave you aught.

OPHELIA My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;
And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,
Take these again;

HAMLET  Ha, ha! are you honest?

OPHELIA.  What means your lordship?

HAMLET.   I did love you once.

OPHELIA.  Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.

HAMLET.  You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot
so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not.

OPHELIA.   I was the more deceived.

HAMLET.    Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;
but yet I could accuse me of such things that it
were better my mother had not borne me: We are arrant knaves,
all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Where's your father?

OPHELIA.    At home, my lord.

HAMLET.  Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.

OPHELIA.    O, help him, you sweet heavens!




HAMLET:      Horatio, Claudius, Gertude and Laertes.   4.5.   Ophelia is mad and Laertes returns

QUEEN GERTRUDE.  I will not speak with her.

HORATIO.   She is importunate, indeed distract:
Her mood will needs be pitied.

QUEEN GERTRUDE.   What would she have?

HORATIO.   She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.

QUEEN GERTRUDE.    To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

LAERTES.   Where is my father?

KING CLAUDIUS.   Dead.

QUEEN GERTRUDE.  But not by him.

KING CLAUDIUS. Let him demand his fill.

LAERTES.    How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:
Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged
Most thoroughly for my father.

KING CLAUDIUS.   Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am guiltless of your father's death,
And am most sensible in grief for it,

LAERTES.  How now! what noise is that?     [Re-enter OPHELIA]
O rose of May!
Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits
Should be as mortal as an old man's life?
A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.




HAMLET      Hamlet and Grave digger 5.1 

HAMLET.    Whose grave's this, sirrah?

First Clown.  Mine, sir.   [Sings]
O, a pit of clay for to be made
For such a guest is meet.

HAMLET.    I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in’t.

First Clown.  You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not
yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.

HAMLET      What man dost thou dig it for?

First Clown.    For no man, sir.

HAMLET.      What woman, then?

First Clown.   For none, neither.

HAMLET.  Who is to be buried in’t?

First Clown.    One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.

HAMLET.    How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the
card, or equivocation will undo us. How long hast thou been a
grave-maker?

First Clown.    Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day
that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.

HAMLET.  How long is that since?

First Clown.   Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it
was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that. is mad, and sent into England.

HAMLET.    Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?

First Clown.    Why, because he was mad:

HAMLET.    How came he mad?

First Clown.      Faith, e'en with losing his wits.



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HAMLET:            2.2.    Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 

GUILDENSTERN.   My honoured lord!

ROSENCRANTZ.     My most dear lord!

HAMLET.     My excellent good friends! How dost thou,
Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?

ROSENCRANTZ.     As the indifferent children of the earth.

GUILDENSTERN.      Happy, in that we are not over-happy;
On fortune's cap we are not the very button.

HAMLET.        Nor the soles of her shoe?

ROSENCRANTZ.      Neither, my lord.

HAMLET.      Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of
her favours?

GUILDENSTERN.        'Faith, her privates we.

HAMLET                      What's the news?

ROSENCRANTZ.      None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.

HAMLET                Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.
Denmark's a prison.

ROSENCRANTZ.       Then is the world one.

GUILDENSTERN.        We think not so, my lord.

HAMLET              Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me.  it is a prison.

ROSENCRANTZ.   Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too
narrow for your mind.

HAMLET.     O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
have bad dreams.

Consider applying to be on the 2019-2020 Drama Society Exec Board! Applications are due no later than the morning of Thursday, May 2. You can submit your applications and sign up for an interview time slot on the Drama Society bulletin board! You can find the application attached to this post as well as physical copies on the bulletin board.

Below are the positions being offered for next year:
All Execs are expected to be present and working B.O. during the Student Directed Festival, Needs Improv and BETCo shows. As needed, Execs should plan to be present and do B.O for Fall Shakespeare, Freshman Play and Spring Play and attend all Drama Society Productions.
 
PRESIDENT/COMMUNITY OUTREACH
1.) Plans and runs the Drama Society & Exec Meetings as well as responsible for actions of the board. Responsible for choosing MOM. 'Face' of the DS. Represents at meetings, elementary schools etc.,
2.) Drama Society Exec Meetings: Make sure all the Execs are at every meeting unless they have said otherwise. Call/text an Exec if they’re not there.
3.) Leads DS to organize States Festival/Student Directed Festival/Needs Improv Charity shows and any DS business.
4.) Organizes outreach--esp to Freshmen regarding DS events, shows, classes.
5.) Writes and distributes DS Newletters.

SECRETARY [agenda for meetings BB, calendar for the year]
1.) General organization of the Drama Society: keeps track of minutes, organizes food drive for Charity events, creates Master Calendar of DS meetings, events etc.,
2.) Organizes snacks for the DS meetings, food for States [if hosting] and food for SDF.
3.) Maintains Drama Society Bulletin Board and Bulletin Board outside the aud.
4.) Organizes the program for the SDF.

PHOTOGRAHY/ VIDEO
1.) Photographs the DS shows.
2.) Takes photos of the DS events & rehearsals for the website.
3.) Takes headshots for all shows.
4.) Gets DS pictures to the Yearbook, the DS Bulletin Boards, and to Perf Arts [for TV screen].
5.) Organizes archival info [pics and video] etc.

PUBLICITY/ADVERTISING 
1.) Design flyers and posters for shows, meetings & auditions.
2.) Organizes flyer and poster distribution.
3.) Communicates with Drama Teachers before each production or show regarding flyer needs.
 
COMMUNICATIONS/WEB MANAGEMENT and SOCIAL MEDIA:
1.) Works closely with directors and visits rehearsals-- blogs/posts DS updates etc.,
2.) Designs home room hand-outs etc
3.) Writes blurbs for shows
4.) Maintains all Social Media sites including Facebook, DS web page, Instagram etc., to advertise DS, shows, etc.,