Hags wanted: no experience necessary

NEWS RELEASE

LAKE SUPERIOR
STATE UNIVERSITY

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Community invited to audition for parts in LSSU presentation of Macbeth

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Members of the community are invited to join Lake Superior State University students and staff in auditioning for parts for the spring presentation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Auditions will be held at 7 p.m. on December 4 and December 6 in the LSSU Arts Center auditorium.

Potential performers are asked to prepare a one-minute monologue or two-minute scene from the play.

"We have roles for 20-27 performers," said Gary Balfantz Ph.D., LSSU professor of speech and communication. "This is an open audition for all of LSSU and the Eastern U.P. and Northern Ontario communities. No experience is necessary. For our students, all majors are welcome."

Macbeth will be presented in the Arts Center auditorium on March 30-31 and April 1-2.

For more information, contact Balfantz at 906-635-2278 or by clicking here.

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(NOTE FROM MR. ED: The illustration accompanying this article is Macbeth and the Witches by the Swiss-born painter Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825). All productions of Macbeth require three "black and midnight hags" who are sisters and have beards. Also needed is some Scottish dude who talks to himself and is married to a woman who has more issues than The Compass and really needs to take some clomipramine to stop her obsessive hand-washing. It may be safely presumed that Prof. Balfantz is inviting Ontario Saultbies to audition for these roles because of a shortage of such characters in the Eastern U.P.)