We had our first read-through for "Much Ado About Nothing" tonight at a couple of the cast members' house. The show is being produced by Fourth Room Theatre of Iowa City. The director Angie Toomsen explained a little of what she was thinking for the show. At this point, we'll be in the time period of the early 1960's - think Mad Men. Rehearsals will start in June, though there might be a couple workshops this May. "Much Ado" runs August 15-17 and 22-24. Fourth Room has a goal to do a free Shakespeare play every summer for the community. To make it free, we will be doing a kick-starter sort of campaign to raise the money. We'll also be performing this show outdoors.
The read-through went really well. Angie has been working on cutting the script, and it ran about 2 hours. I have the part of Conrade, one of Don John's cohorts. It will be a really fun role, and I'm super excited to continue my experience with Shakespeare. We have about 3 weeks until we start regular rehearsals. I have several goals in that time: to be off book, to speak with Angie about her thoughts and mine for the character, and to do a thorough analysis and some research of the play.
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