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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Thursday July 7th, 2016
9 AM to 5 PM
Lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
Transition
$270/week
Location
The Cell Theatre Company
338 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles
see breakdown
Preparation
Actors will read from sides, provided at the audition.
Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
Other Dates
First rehearsal: August 1, 2016; First Preview: September 1, 2016
Opening: September 8, 2016
Closing: September 25, 2016
All performances will be at The Workshop Theater
Other
www.thecelltheatre.org
Personnel
Playwright: Honor Molloy
Personnel expected to be in attendance at the EPA:
Director: Kira Simring
Associate Producer: Mackenzie Meeks
Associate Director: Brian Reager
· 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
Synopsis: Down the back lanes where the gardens aren’t kept lives Masher Moorigan, an old woman haunted by a Dublin long gone. This new play by award-winning dramatist and novelist Honor Molloy (Smarty Girl - Dublin Savage) directed by Kira Simring (The McGowan Trilogy, McGoldrick’s Thread, and the New York Times Critics Pick Hard Times) tells the spellbinding story of a family—and a nation—pursued by the ghosts of the past and facing a perturbing future.
Seeking:
RASHER / BASHER
In 1999 - RASHER is a 51-year-old haunt of a man, hollowed by a life spent in the institutions of Ireland (mostly jail - some mental hospitals). Raised in a divided and poisonous household, Rasher has just been released from a prison sentence incurred by murdering his father, Basher, way back in 1966.
In 1966 - The actor who plays Rasher also plays Rasher's father, BASHER. Also 51, he's a fiddle player, a domineering alcoholic, and an abusive patriarch yet he manages to find humor and delight amidst disaster.
MASHER
In 1999 - MASHER, 61, is a bloated, beached, wreck of a matriarch. Confined to her large chair after years in and out of mental institutions, and self-deprecation, she is unable to feed and bathe herself or tend to her varicose veins without aid. She is nasty and callow even at her ripe age. She is the wife of Basher, mother of Rasher, and used to be Dolly in her salad years.
DOLLY / WEE DOLLY
In 1966 - At 34, DOLLY is cheap, cheeky, going the hard road. She's the young Masher Moorigan before the great family downfall occurs. Disdainful towards her low-life husband, Basher, Dolly prides herself on the fact that she can still attract younger men through her go-go dancin as she gallivants about Dublin City. She possesses a deep and forbidden love for her son Rasher, but is more inclined to buy shoes and baubles for herself before providing for him.
In 1999 - The actor who plays Dolly also plays WEE DOLLY - a New Age Spiritualist and healer, who has powers that extend far beyond the material world. Wee Dolly is a hungry ghost who seeks to break the spell that binds her to her mother, Masher.
YOUNG RASH / THE ESB BOY
In 1966 - YOUNG RASH is 16 - a lanky, passionate lad. He has a deep and forbidden love for his mother, Dolly Moorigan. He is often beaten and bullied and kicked out of school. He possesses a sharp and dirty tongue, and has a passionate disdain for his father, Basher, who leaves the family with nothing in the larder for months on end.
In 1999 - The actor playing Young Rash also plays the ESB BOY, a malevolent trickster ghost who taunts Masher under the false pretense that he works for the Electric Supply Board (think Con Edison).
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