FREUD'S LAST SESSION Equity Principal Audition - Marjorie S. Dean Theater Auditions

FREUD’S LAST SESSION – Equity Principal Auditions

Producer: Carolyn Rossi Copeland Off-Broadway Currently $539/week minimum.

Playwright: Mark St. Germain

Dir: Tyler Marchant

CD: Pat McCorkle

GM: Robert Schneider

Casting Assocs: Joe Lopick, Carter Niles

Currently running at Off-Broadway’s Marjorie S. Dean Theater.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City

Sides will be provided at the audition. Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

After escaping the Nazis in Vienna, legendary psychiatrist Dr. Sigmund Freud invites young, little-known Professor C. S. Lewis to his home in London. Lewis expects to be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book, but the dying Freud has a much more significant agenda. On the day England entered World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex and the meaning of life -- only two weeks before Freud chose to take his own life.

Seeking, for possible future replacements in the current Off-Broadway production:

Sigmund Freud:

Character is age 83; may be played by an actor who is that age, older or younger, provided that the actor can believably play age 83. Founder of modern psychiatry. Intellectually relentless, Freud uses his wit as a weapon. Though dying of cancer, he summons all his strength in this battle of beliefs he has dedicated his life to.

C. S. Lewis:

Age 40. Christian convert and Oxford don teaching Medieval Literature. Has not yet achieved the fame he did later in life. Freud’s intellectual equal, Lewis relishes the confrontation between their contrasting world views. Charming and warm; possesses a penetrating and disarming sense of humor.

Understudy:

To cover both roles; must be able to play both ages believably.