BABETTE'S FEAST - NYC EPA
Spikenard & Marigold, LLC
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Mar 20, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $621.00 per week
SEEKING
All roles are CAST. Looking for understudies and possible replacements (if needed). See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Prepare a 2 minute monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Theatre at St. Clement's
423 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036-3510
PERSONNEL
Director: Karin Coonrod (expected at the EPA)
Author: Rose Courtney
Producers: Julia Beardsley O’Brien and Spikenard and Marigold, LLC
General Manager: Edmund Gaynes - Jessimeg Productions
OTHER DATES
Beginning previews March 14, 2018
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
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BREAKDOWN
SYNOPSIS:
This new adaptation of the short story by Isak Dinesen tells the story of how a refugee transforms a closed religious community by sacrificing all she has to throw a lavish dinner party. Through her radical hospitality, this mysterious woman converts her guests’ deeply held notions of scarcity and judgment and opens them up to give and receive abundant grace. The story is told from the point of view of two pious, sheltered sisters in a small town in Norway.
Seeking possible replacements and understudies:
BABETTE:
ROLE CAST. African-American woman, 45-60. An outsider, French, large, speaks little, a doer, observes carefully, passionate, many secrets, tremendous PRESENCE, a history, Catholic, an arsonist during Paris commune. The actress should move well.
MARTINE:
ROLE CAST. Female, any ethnicity, 40-50. The older sister (by one year) daughter of the Dean, witty, observant, practical, kind, generous, fearful and slightly more judgmental than her younger sister. The character also appears at ages 18-55 in the play.
PHILIPPA:
ROLE CAST. Female, any ethnicity, 40-50. The younger sister, daughter of the Dean, angelic singing voice…(does not need to be trained voice), passionate—artistic proclivities, witty, kind, slightly softer than Martine. The character also appears as ages 17-55 in the play.
This following ensemble are the engine of the piece. They each play several characters from Berlevaag. All must have a sense of comic timing and a spirit of company, and move well.
Player 1:
Male, any ethnicity. 60-70. Plays a part of the Narration… Plays the kind elderly Dean, very observant of human nature and very dedicated to his daughters and his “flock” A man everyone aspires to please. He has a practical wisdom, always ready with an aphorism. In addition to the Dean he plays the dresser to the great opera singer, Papin, in the church scenes where he is not the Dean, he plays shy Skipper Halvorsen, an elderly man who has had one love in his life.
Player 2:
Asian woman, 30-45. Plays part of the Narration, Lars, a young suitor in love with Philippa, Dagfinn, a fishmonger who has soft spot for Babette, Erna, a sister of the brotherhood bearing grudge, and a Swedish Lady of the Court: frivolous, passionate, pushy, wiley.
Player 3:
Male, any ethnicity, 50’s. Plays part of the Narration, Achille Papin: a passionate opera singer, full of dignity and pride and excellence in his work. Also plays the Groom to old Mrs. Lowenhielm: lower class, faithful, offering information, and also plays Alf, nemesis to Fishmonger. The actor must have a great voice and panache.
Player 4:
African-American male, 50-60. Plays part of the Narration, Lorens Loewnhielm: the lieutenant when younger and the General when older. As the young Lieutenant he is impatient, full-of-himself, privileged, bratty, selfish, loquacious until he meets Martine and then he can only stammer. As the mature General he regal, dignity, courtly, a military man, articulate, worldly, successful. Also plays Espen, a member of the community with gout.
Player 5:
Male, any ethnicity, 20-30. Plays part of Narration, Hans, a young suitor who is eager to impress the Dean and catch one of the girls, either one. Also plays Young Lorens Lowenhielm, who is a snappy and fresh, and Leif, who realizes Babette is on to something special.
Player 6:
Female, any ethnicity, 40-55. Plays men and women and part of the Narration. Also plays aged Aunt Lowenhielm who is entitled and accustomed to a higher brand of life, demanding of her nephew, secretly in love. Also plays Astrid, who is very nearsighted and Henrick, the Bread Seller who is trying to make the most for himself.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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