Senior Production
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Audition Process
For the past few weeks, the cast and crew of Oxley’s 7-10 production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ have been hard at work practising and beginning rehearsals. With dozens of students coming forward to audition in Week 9 of Term 3, the cast and crew selected have started creating this vision. There has been an outstanding amount of people coming forward to dedicate their time to the play in roles other than just acting. Lighting and tech, hair and makeup, costume and promotion are great alternative ways that students have been able to get involved with the play and help bring the vision to life.
Olivia Quilty, cast in the role of Hermia, says how easy and enjoyable the audition process was. “Thanks to all the girls that helped us organise what order we were auditioning in and where to go before and after the audition, it was relatively easy and fun. Before audition day, Ms Pascoe sent out monologues according to which part you wanted to audition for, and if you wanted to audition in groups, she would send out scenes for us to practise ensuring everyone came prepared.” Olivia decided to audition for the production as she was yet to be involved with an Oxley production. “I put myself forward to audition because I haven’t been a part of one of the Oxley productions so far and I definitely felt like I was missing out. I am also doing Drama as an elective and knew that Ms Pascoe would make a great cast and production.”
One of the production’s creative directors, Juliette Johnson, speaks on her commitment and what her role entails as a keen and key aspect of the play. “In my role as creative director, I focus more on the aesthetic of the production surrounding costume, set design and hair and makeup.” Juliette’s previous work in our last school production of Chicago inspired her to join this production in a larger and more critical role. “I put myself forward for the position as creative director as I had previously worked in costume, hair and makeup in the Chicago production. I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of it so I thought I would put myself forward for this role.”
The production has seen many different students come forward all with their own individual skill sets and passions that are helping create this play, all wanting to get involved for different reasons. The number of roles that were offered to students makes this play a place where everyone can get involved in an area that they love and enjoy. We encourage everyone in any future productions to put themselves forward as there will always be a place for you and a chance to help create something magical and something that the whole school can be proud of. We can’t wait to see how the production unfolds over the next term!
Charlie G, Year 9