PITTSBURGH IRISH & CLASSICAL THEATRE 2012 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre Auditions
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre 2012 Season
– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2011 weekly minimum: $368).
Artistic Dir: Andrew S. Paul
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Monday, December 5, 2011 Charity Randall Theatre
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Stephen Foster Memorial Building
10 AM – 6 PM both days. 4301 Forbes Avenue (Oakland)
Lunch from 2 – 3. Pittsburgh PA 15213
For an appointment, call 412/561-6000, x205, before noon on Friday, 12/2/11. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout each audition day, as time permits.
Please prepare two contrasting monologues, each 2 minutes or less.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled back-to-back.
All roles are available. All dates are in 2012.
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl. Dir TBA. 1st reh: 3/27. Runs 4/18-5/5.
Setting: Living room and adjacent operating theatre of a doctor’s house in a spa town outside of New York City, circa 1880s.
Dr. Givings:
Man, 40s. Specialist in gynecological and hysterical disorders. More attentive to his work than to his wife. Nudity required (no nudity at auditions).
Catherine Givings:
Late 20s. Dr. Givings’s wife. Curious, friendly and outgoing. Nudity required (no nudity at auditions).
Sabrina Daldry:
Early 30s. Patient of Dr. Givings. High-strung and nervous.
Annie:
Late 30s. Dr. Givings’s midwife assistant. Efficient, intelligent.
Leo Irving:
Englishman, 20s-30s. Being treated by Dr. Givings. Romantic, free-spirited painter.
Elizabeth:
African American, early 30s. Recently lost a child. A wet-nurse by default.
Mr. Daldry:
40s-50s. Sabrina’s husband. A bit stuffy and traditional.
The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall. Dir: Andrew S. Paul. 1st reh: 5/1. Runs 5/31-6/23.
Setting: Near Newcastle, in the mining territory of northeastern Britain.
Note: With the exception of Helen, Ben and Robert, all characters must exhibit a northern England dialect (as in BILLY ELLIOT).
George Brown:
50s. The organizing force behind the evening Art Appreciation classes. Serious; a curmudgeon.
Oliver Kilbourn:
30s. The most talented of the pitmen painters, he struggles with his success as an artist.
Jimmy Floyd:
30s-40s. Not the brightest of the pitmen. Tough and incredulous.
Young Lad / Ben Nicholson:
Male characters, 20s. Lad: Want-to-be miner. Joins the class out of boredom. Ben: Successful artist.
Harry Wilson:
50s. Dental mechanic and WWI veteran. Joins the class to escape his wife. Devoted Socialist.
Robert Lyon:
Late 30s - early 40s. Youthful professor from Newcastle University, hired to teach the class. Educated, sophisticated; often unknowingly condescending toward his charges.
Susan Parks:
20s. Attractive, sympathetic working-class gal, hired to pose for the pitmen painters. Topless nudity required (no nudity at auditions).
Helen Sutherland:
50s. Sophisticated art collector who befriends and adopts the cause of the pitmen, and offers Oliver the opportunity to leave the mine forever.
Tragedian in Spite of Himself: A Celebration of the Life and Theatre of Anton Chekhov. Dirs: Andrew S. Paul, others TBA. 1st reh: 6/19. Runs 7/19-8/26.
PICT's Chekhov celebration will consist of a single repertory company of 18-20 actors.
IVANOV by Anton Chekhov. Adaptation: Tom Stoppard.
Nikolay Ivanov:
40s. Landowner and regional councilor who has fallen on hard times. A sort of middle-aged Hamlet.
Anna Petrovna:
Jewish, 30s. Ivanov’s wife. She has been disowned by her family for marrying him. Dying of tuberculosis.
Count Matvey Shabelsky:
Late 50s. Ivanov’s maternal uncle, a selfish, titled, penniless, warm-hearted aristocrat.
Mikhail Borkin:
40s. Ivanov's estate manager. Conniving schemer. Can be witty and fun.
Yevgeny Lvov:
30. Young, self-righteous doctor caring for Anna Petrovna.
Pyotr:
Age indeterminate, Ivanov's put-upon servant.
Pavel Lebedev:
50. Ivanov's wealthy neighbor. Henpecked husband to Zinaida, and father to Sasha.
Zinaida Lebedev:
50. Lebedev's overbearing and greedy wife.
Sasha Lebedev:
Early 20s. The beautiful, sweet and unspoiled Ophelia to Ivanov's Hamlet.
Marfa Babakina:
Late 30s. Wealthy young widow, on the make for husband #2.
Dmitry Kosykh:
30s. Excise officer. Serious player of card games.
Avdotya Nazarovna:
60s. The local matchmaker. Strong-willed. Cheats at cards.
Gavrila:
60s. Nhe Lebedevs’ elderly, much-abused servant.
THE EVILS OF TOBACCO by Chekhov. Adaptation: Michael Frayn.
Nyukhin:
50s. His wife's husband (she being the proprietress of a conservatory of music and boarding school for young ladies).
THE BEAR by Chekhov. Adaptation: Frayn.
Popova:
30s. Charming widow with an estate. Has dimples.
Smirnov:
40s. Overbearing landowner, in the prime of life.
Luka:
60s. Popova's elderly footman.
THE PROPOSAL by Chekhov. Adaptation: Frayn.
Chubukov:
50. Proud landowner.
Natalya Stepanovna:
25. Chubukov’s daughter.
Lomov:
30. Neighbor of Chubukov's. Plump, healthy, but very hypochondriacal landowner.
SWANSONG by Chekhov. Adaptation: Frayn.
Svetlovidov:
68. Elderly comic actor and would-be tragedian.
Nikita Ivanich:
70s. Elderly prompter.
THREE SISTERS by Chekhov. Version: Brian Friel.
Andrey Prozorov:
25-35. Brother to the three Prozorov sisters. Overweight, and often overwhelmed.
Natasha:
25-35. Prozorov’s crass, common, fiancée (later his wife).
Olga:
Late 30s. Oldest Prozorov sister. Serious and mothering.
Masha:
30s. Middle sister. Disillusioned dreamer.
Irina:
20s. Youngest sister. Full of zest and verve.
Kulygin:
Masha's ineffectual husband, a teacher in the local high school.
Vershinin:
Lieutenant Colonel; battery commander for the local forces. Unhappily married, he falls in love with Masha.
Baron Tusenbach:
30s. Kind, loving suitor to Irina.
Solyony:
30s. A rather unpredictable sort, out to provoke reaction.
Doctor Chebutykin:
Late 50s. The medical officer. Beloved by the sisters.
Ferapont:
70s. Elderly watchman from the local executive board.
Anfisa:
80. The family's doting and elderly nanny.
THE YALTA GAME by Friel.
Based on a theme from Chekhov's story “The Lady With the Lapdog”.
Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov:
40. Handsome, cavalier opportunist, on the lookout for a tryst.
Anna Sergeyevna:
20s-30s. Young, married woman, traveling on her own. Strikes up a friendly conversation with Gurov.
AFTERPLAY by Friel.
Looks at two famous characters from Chekhov's major plays several decades later, in post-revolutionary Russia.
Sonya Serebriakova :
Late 40s. Uncle Vanya's long-suffering niece.
Andrey Prozorov:
50s. Shy, awkward. The young brother of the three Prozorov sisters.
The School for Lies by David Ives. Based upon Moliere's THE MISANTHROPE. Dir: Andrew S. Paul. 1st reh: 11/13/12. Runs 12/5 – 12/22/12.
Frank:
30s. Native of Paris, newly returned. Honest and truthful to a fault, and often offensive to others.
Celimene:
30s. Young widow of Paris. Beautiful of face, sharp of tongue.
Eliante:
25-35. Celimene’s cousin. Sweet and simple.
Philinte:
25-35. Enamored of Eliante. A sensitive type.
Arsinoe:
40s. Moral pillar and rival to Celimene. She is a woman to be reckoned with.
Clitander:
40. Influential courtier. Foppish.
Oronte:
40s. A boulevard bard. A bit of a blowhard.
Acaste:
30s. Moneyed marquis. Really, really dumb, and proud of it.
Dubois / Basque:
30-50. Twins. Celimene's servant and Frank's valet (played by the same actor).
