PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - NYC EPA Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LORT Non-Rep
$1867 weekly minimum (LORT A+)
Equity actors for roles in PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC (See breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Director: David Cromer
Writer: Joshua Harmon
Casting: Kelly Gillespie & David Caparelliotis
Expected to attend:
Casting Directors: Kelly Gillespie, David Caparelliotis and Joe Gery
1st Rehearsal: November 13, 2023 1st Preview: December 19, 2023
Opens: January 9, 2024
Closes: March 24, 2024
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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.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
SYNOPSIS: In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris desperately awaits news of their missing family. More than 70 years later, the couple’s great-grandchildren find themselves facing the same question as their ancestors: “Are we safe?” Following five generations of a French Jewish family, Prayer For The French Republic is a sweeping look at history, home, and the effects of an ancient hatred.
MARCELLE [CAST] – Mid 50s-early 60s. Female-identifying. A doctor. A mother. Very French. Jewish. Has a solid sense of her identity and place in the world. She has recently achieved the status she’s worked her whole career for. A forceful personality. She runs the show and does not suffer fools.
CHARLES – Mid 50s-early 60s. Male-identifying. French-Algerian. Marcelle’s husband. Also a doctor. A father. An Algerian Jew who has lived in France since his family fled Algeria when he was 6. Even keeled and kind. Urbane. Thoughtful and solid. A man who knows from experience how bad things can get, and while he doesn’t live in fear, he lives with that awareness.
ELODIE [CAST] – Late 20s. Female-identifying. French-Algerian. Marcelle and Charles’s daughter. Opinionated, out-spoken, sarcastic, combative. Very smart, very funny. Quite depressed. Lives with her parents.
DANIEL – Early-mid 20s. Male-identifying. French-Algerian. Marcelle and Charles’s son. A teacher in a Jewish school in a Jewish neighborhood. He has, in recent years, steadily become more religious than the rest of his family. Sexy in an unassuming way. A bit of an introvert who feels things strongly. Easy to like.
PATRICK – Mid 50s-early 60s. Male-identifying. Marcelle’s brother. Our narrator. An entirely secular Jew. To the point where he thinks religion, in general, is nonsense. Wry, ironic, and charming. As outspoken as his sister and quite certain of his views. Piano skills a plus.
MOLLY [CAST] – 20. Female-identifying. A distant American cousin. In France to study abroad. A bright and opinionated young woman, who is optimistic and game. Far from ignorant, but her experience of the world is not yet very broad. We watch her assimilate some of the ancient complexities of the world as the play unfolds.
PIERRE – 80s. Male-identifying. Marcelle and Patrick’s father. The last of many generations to run the family’s piano store. A Holocaust survivor. The pain of his memories is kept in check by unflagging pragmatism, his belief in the primacy of family, and the familiarity of the piano store.
IRMA – 60s-70s. Female-identifying. Pierre’s grandmother. Unsentimental, very French. A Jewish mother who survived WWII in her apartment with her husband, not knowing the fate of any of their children. Suppressing her worry and despair costs her, but she manages it.
ADOLPHE – 60s-70s. Male-identifying. Pierre’s grandfather. A Jewish father who survived WWII in his apartment with his wife, not knowing the fate of any of their children. A quiet man, prone to interiority. But perceptive and kind, and skilled at navigating and soothing his wife’s distress. And, later, that of his son and grandson.
LUCIEN [CAST] – 40ish. Male-identifying. Irma & Adolphe’s son. A Holocaust survivor. Shattered and shell-shocked by his experience in the camp, of course. But also dazed to be back in the world. Putting one foot in front of the other every day, for his son’s sake. His son is his tether to life and a future and a belief that goodness still exists. Stillness on the surface; tumult underneath.
YOUNG PIERRE – 15. Male-identifying. Lucien’s son, who survived the Holocaust in the camp with him. Smart, but very uncertain and reticent. He has no idea how to be in the world. And how could he? Overwhelmed by the love his grandmother is desperate to shower on him, but always wants to do the right thing. Utterly reliant on his father.
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