BEYOND THE HORIZON Equity Principal Auditions - Irish Repertory Theatre Auditions

BEYOND THE HORIZON – Equity Principal Auditions

Irish Repertory Theatre ANTC $428/week minimum.

Artistic Dir: Charlotte Moore

Producing Dir / Stage Dir: Ciaran O’Reilly

Author: Eugene O’Neill

1st reh: 1/3/12. Runs 2/3-3/28.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Irish Repertory Theatre

10 AM - 6 PM 132 West 22nd Street

Lunch from 1 – 2. New York City

Please prepare a contemporary or classical monologue, 2 minutes or less.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

O’Neill’s first full-length play, for which he won the first of his Pulitzer Prizes. Harrowing, heart-wrenching domestic tragedy, set on a farm in Connecticut. Two brothers find themselves in love with the same woman. The older sibling, Andrew, a farmer, is expected to marry a local girl, Ruth, while his college-educated brother is planning to forget his own feelings for her by going to sea. Just as he is about to depart, however, it becomes clear that Ruth loves Robert, not Andrew. So Robert stays at home to run the farm – a job for which he is entirely unsuited – and Andrew takes his place on the sailing ship.

Seeking (all roles are available; descriptions are by the playwright):

James Mayo:

Mid 50s - mid 60s. A farmer. A man of the land. Strong, weathered, passionate with an explosive temper.

Kate Mayo:

Mid 50s - mid 60s. Wife of James Mayo. Mrs. Mayo is a slight, round-faced, rather prim-looking woman of fifty-five who had once been a school teacher. The labors of a farmer's wife have bent but not broken her, and she retains a certain refinement of movement and expression foreign to the Mayo part of the family

Robert Mayo:

Mid 20s. Son of James Mayo. He is a tall, slender young man of twenty-three. There is a touch of the poet about him, expressed in his high forehead and wide, dark eyes. His features are delicate and refined. (Robert ages eight years during course of play, and life and health take their toll on his body and mind.)

Andrew Mayo:

Mid 20s-30s. Son of James Mayo, an opposite type to Robert—husky, sun-bronzed, handsome in a large-featured, manly fashion—a son of the soil, intelligent in a shrewd way, but with nothing of the intellectual about him. (Andrew ages eight years during the course of the play, and the hard life shows the years in personality and body.)

Ruth Atkins:

20s. She is a healthy, blonde, out-of-door girl with a graceful, slender figure. Her face, though inclined to roundness, is undeniably pretty, its large eyes of a deep blue set off strikingly by the sun-bronzed complexion. Her small, regular features are marked by certain strength—an underlying, stubborn fixity of purpose hidden in the frankly-appealing charm of her fresh youthfulness. (Ruth ages eight years during the course of the play, and the bitter experience of her life transforms her.)

Mrs. Atkins:

40s/50s. Ruth’s widowed mother. She is a thin, pale-faced woman, with hard, bright eyes. A victim of partial paralysis for many years, condemned to be pushed from day to day of her life in a wheel chair, she has developed the selfish, irritable nature of the chronic invalid.

Mary:

Seeking actress age 5 or 6 to play a pretty but sickly and anemic-looking 3-year-old child with a tear-stained face.

Ben:

20s/30s. Farm hand. He is a hulking, awkward young fellow with a heavy, stupid face and shifty, cunning eyes.

Doctor Fawcett / Capt. Dick Scott:

Two roles for one actor. Fawcett: 50s/60s. Short, dark, middle-aged man with a Vandyke beard. He wears glasses. Scott: Mid 50s-60s. Short and stocky, with a weather-beaten, jovial face and a white moustache—a typical old salt, loud of voice and given to gesture.