HUMBLE BOY Submission - The Public Theatre Auditions
The Public Theatre
SPT
HUMBLE BOY – Photo / Resume Request
The Public Theatre (Lewiston, ME) SPT Category 8; $465/week (incl. Housing, transportation)
Artistic/Stage Director: Christopher Schario
Associate Artistic Director: Janet Mitchko
Contract dates: 2/27 – 3/28/11
Boston area auditions will be held in mid January 2011, by appointment only.
For consideration, mail picture and resume ASAP to:
The Public Theatre
31 Maple Street
Lewiston, ME, 04240
Attn: HUMBLE BOY
No email submissions, please
Actors will read from the script at the auditions.
Stylistically this play is Ayckbourn meets Stoppard meets Chekhov meets Hamlet
Seeking:
Felix:
Early/mid 30s. British Dialect. Preferably a little pudgy. He is a highly intelligent, socially inept astrophysicist. The role was originally played by Simon Russell Beale. Ten years ago Eddie Izzard, or Kenneth Branaugh probably would have made an interesting Felix as well. Felix has an incredibly high IQ, however, he's not a cool intellectual, but a wounded emotionally immature man/boy. There is a likable self-deprecating pathos about him. He is simultaneously comic and tragic. Emotionally complex, (with a nervous stutter), he's got the sulkiness, intelligence and angst of Hamlet, a great facility with language, and an ironic, self-deprecating and biting sense of humor about himself and his family. Like Hamlet, he is struggling to make peace with the death of his father and re-marriage of his mother.
