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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions - 3 days
Monday, June 17, 2013
Tuesday June 18, 2013
Wednesday June 19, 2013
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM each day.
Lunch from 1 to 2.
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Contract
Production (League)
$1754/week minimum
Location
Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
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Seeking
Note: These two plays will be done on Broadway in repertory.
Seeking a total of TWO ADULT MALE UNDERSTUDIES to cover various roles in each production.
See breakdown for details.
Preparation
Sides will be provided at the audition.
Bring picture and resume stapled together.
Other Dates
See breakdown for dates
Other
NO MAN’S LAND will first be done as a stand-alone production for the month of August 2013 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
Personnel
Director: Sean Mathias
Playwrights: Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter
Casting Directors: Ilene Starger and Zoe E. Rotter
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Production Dates:
Berkeley Rep dates (No Man’s Land Only):
1st reh: (Understudies): 7/15. Runs: 8/3 – 8/31/13
Broadway dates (Both plays):
1st reh (Boy): 10/7/13
1st reh (Understudies): 10/21/13
1st preview: 10/26/13
Opening: 11/24/13 at the CORT Theatre
Note: These two plays will be done on Broadway in repertory. NO MAN’S LAND will first be done as a stand-alone production for the month of August 2013 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
***We are seeking a total of TWO ADULT MALE UNDERSTUDIES to cover various roles in each production, as described below. Rather than assigning understudies in a pre-determined way, the roles which each actor will play will be governed by his particular age/qualities.
We are also seeking (see below) a male child actor to appear on stage in GODOT, as well as his understudy.
NO MAN’S LAND by Harold Pinter
HIRST (excellent British accent required) 60-70 years of age. A wealthy, successful poet, critic, essayist and man of letters who is nearing the end of his life. He is physically weak, and has periods of confusion alternating with those of lucidity. He has invited a mysterious man that he met at a pub, who may or may not be an old friend from his Oxford days, back to his grand house, where he is attended to by Briggs and Foster.
SPOONER (excellent British accent required) 60-70 years of age. Also a poet, although not nearly as successful or wealthy as Hirst. Although of the same age, Spooner is still vibrant and active. He works at a pub to survive and still works as a poet. He is friendly, talkative, witty and somewhat mysterious. It comes to light that he may have once been an Oxford man in Hirst’s circle of friends.
FOSTER (excellent working class British accent required) 40s- 50ish A young poet who was summoned from his travels in the East to come and work for Hirst as his amanuensis and caregiver. A handsome, charming ladies’ man, he both resents his work and has a protective fondness for his boss. He can be vulgar and flippant.
BRIGGS (excellent British accent required – not posh.) 40s-50ish. Also works for Hirst. He is a hulking man with a brutish aspect, but he is highly intelligent and can be witty and protective of Hirst. He seems to run the household and little escapes his notice.
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WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett
These characters in Godot have a kind of ageless quality and exist out of time. See above role descriptions about age range as understudies will cover both productions.
ESTRAGON – More concerned with physical matters: the pain from his boots, hunger, the need for sleep. He is more forgetful and relies more on Vladimir for his well-being. They have a bickering friendship, a kind of eternally quarrelsome marriage, with a foundation of caring.
VLADIMIR - Vladimir is the more restless of the two, filled with existential angst.
He is more of the caregiver and frequently must remind his friend of past events.
POZZO – Boisterous, physically strapping, and larger than life. In the first act he is in control of his slave, Lucky – whipping him and ordering him about. By the second act, Pozzo has gone inexplicably blind and must rely on Lucky and the kindness of others. He is fiercely intelligent and has a fierce cruelty about him.
LUCKY – Pozzo’s loyal slave for many years. Pozzo drives him with a whip as if he were an animal and he responds to the name ‘Pig.’ He walks, dances, and ‘thinks’ on command. Much of his soliloquy in Act One is hard to fathom, but it is a cri de coeur.
Also seeking:
BOY/BOY understudy (9-11) Smart, but not precocious. A pre-pubescent young goatherd who arrives as Godot’s messenger to tell them that Godot will not be coming that day, but will arrive the next. Although he arrives each night, he insists he has never seen Estragon and Vladimir before.
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