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Brush Up Your Shakespeare! Alphabet Theatre continues its bi-annual Shakespeare tradition! Auditions January 6th, 2-5pm, at 12419 Chillicothe Road, Chesterland (Christ Presbyterian Church) Have prepared a 2 minute Shakespearean Monologue.  Be able to tell us who your character is and what they want to accomplish. Open to ALL students in grades 6-12.  Tentative Show Dates: May 4-5, 2018 Now that we've got your attention - ​ Answers to your unasked questions. Why Shakespeare? Because a large majority of the troupe have found Shakespeare to be lots of fun and they requested I do another Shakespeare comedy. It it hard? No Okay it is no harder than plays by Pinter, Williams , Miller, Saroyan, or Wilson. If you said who more than 5 times you can’t count. Will I need to talk funny? Occasionally actors will be asked to tell a joke or two, use a different dialect or maybe even make animal sounds - but we will not be using Shakespearean English b