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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday, December 21, 2015
9:30 am-5:30 pm
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)
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Contract
Production (League)
$1,917 weekly minimum
Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
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Seeking
Equity actors for female understudy roles in ECLIPSED.
Preparation
Sides will be provided.
Other Dates
1st Reh: 2/11/16
1st Perf: 2/23/16
Opening: 3/6/16
Closing: 6/19/16
Other
Will perform at Golden Theatre.
Personnel
Written by Danai Gurira
Directed by Liesl Tommy
Casting Directors: Jordan Thaler/Heidi Griffiths
· 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
Amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War, the captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community—until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of a new girl who can read and the return of a former captive turned rebel soldier. Drawing on reserves of wit and compassion, each woman must discover her own means of survival in this deeply-felt portrait of women finding and testing their own strength.
SEEKING
UNDERSTUDY ONLY to cover Saycon Sengbloh and Akosua Busia in the roles of: HELENA. 20s. Liberian. Wife #1 of a rebel warlord. A strong woman, like a commander herself, in charge of the Commanding Officer’s wives and the compound. She clings to rules and hierarchy as a means of ensuring her own safety and the safety of the other young women who have fallen under her care. But she has been a captive for so long that she has lost any sense of where she comes from, whether anyone else in her family is alive and is not even sure of her own last name. She is fiercely maternal and will do almost anything to protect the fragile equilibrium of her world and the wellbeing of war scarred girls who are her family now. AND RITA: Early 40’s. Liberian. A Peace Activist. She is dignified, determined and unafraid. She initially sees the young women she is hoping to liberate as uneducated and incapable of helping themselves. But over time she learns that their stories are disquietingly similar to her own. And it is the common ground that they share, not their differences, which enable them all to imagine a life beyond the ravages of war.
UNDERSTUDY ONLY to cover Zainab Jah, Pascale Armand, and Lupita Nyong'o in the roles of: MAIMA: Early 20’s. Liberian. Wife #2. Cocky, charismatic, sure of herself and intimidating. She has violently and, at great cost, left the fragile, domestic world of the compound to fight with the rebel army and gain some semblance of power and control over her destiny. She returns periodically, perhaps to find solace from the ravages of the war that she is now fighting. Her bravado and swagger mask a deep hurt that comes from the cruelty that has been inflicted on her and which she now perpetrates on others. AND BESSIE: Early 20s. Liberian. Wife #3. She is unhappily pregnant with the Commanding Officer's child, a child she does not want. She is tenacious, self-absorbed and vain, spending her days stressing about her hair and looks as a way of gaining some small sense of control in a world that has spun off its axis. Her natural optimism allows her to quickly adapt to her ever changing circumstances and, in the end, love the child she gives birth to. AND GIRL: Late teens. Liberian. An innocent child at the beginning of the play, she comes to the compound traumatized by her very recent experiences. But despite all that she has witnessed and experienced she still shows flashes of the typical teenager she was before the war. Raped by the Commanding Officer she becomes Wife #4. Unable to articulate the horror of the experience she loses herself first in reading aloud a biography of President Clinton and then in her determination to join Maima as a female rebel fighter. A decision that comes with an unimaginable cost.
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