RETURNING TO HAIFA - San Francisco, CA EPA
Golden Thread Productions | San Francisco, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Potrero Stage
1695 18th St
San Francisco, CA 94107-2376
Expected to attend:
Sahar Assaf, Executive Artistic Director
Wendy Reyes, Production Associate
Samer Al Saber, Director of Returning to Haifa
Evren Odcikin, Director of ALAA: A Family Trilogy
RETURNING TO HAIFA
Rehearsals: Monday, March 4, 2024
Open: Monday, April 15
Close: Saturday, May 4
OTHER
IMPORTANT: Please note that Golden Thread is a fully vaccinated company. Actors will be required to email their proof of vaccination prior to their audition appointment date. Your final dose must be administered at least 2 weeks prior to the first day of in-person auditions.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (P)
To set up an audition appointment please go
to:
https://calendly.com/wendy-gtp/goldenthread-auditions-2024?month=2024-02&date=2024-02-07 .
Once you have chosen your time slot, please fill out the following form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx6lDBdGfKoFoPp54FqDbyPyj1b3K2Z7FGv9qgaJ8p78PwJg/viewform .
For questions contact auditions@goldenthread.org .
The deadline to set up an audition appointment is January 30th, 2024.
Bay Area Theatre
$400 weekly minimum (Intro Tier) - 20 hours/week
Equity actors for roles in RETURNING TO HAIFA (See breakdown).
Actors of all ages, races, genders, ability and experience levels are welcome. We are a company focused on the Middle East, so we do have numerous roles in productions and staged readings for actors of Middle Eastern heritage.
Actors looking to showcase physical movement experience, such as clowning; dance; ensemble, devised work; and musicians are encouraged to audition.
Local (Bay Area) actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare a two-minute monologue that showcases your vocal, physical, and emotional range. You may also opt to use sides which can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gCiNkOYB0b4s231M5aCQiYQXCUOZfzd
RETURNING TO HAIFA
By Ghassan Kanafani
Adapted to the stage by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace
SYNOPSIS: The 1969 novella Returning to Haifa remains one of the most important and timeless works by Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972), the great Palestinian novelist and intellectual who authored some of the most admired stories in modern Arabic literature. His novellas and short stories, now translated into dozens of languages, are considered by many today as having been ahead of their time, both in form and content. Returning to Haifa is a testament not only to Kanafani's commitment to the politics of liberation but also his deep empathy for the 'other' as well as his modern approach to storytelling. Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut in 1972 at the age of 36. This adaptation for the stage of Returning to Haifa presents a deeply human portrait of two families, one Palestinian, one Jewish, forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. But while this is a drama about the Middle East, it is also very much about ourselves today. This is political drama at its best: personal, darkly comic and ultimately hopeful.
SAID -- a Palestinian man (mid 40s)
SAFIYYA -- a Palestinian woman, Said's wife (early 40s)
MIRIAM -- an elderly Israeli Jewish woman (60s)
DOV -- a young Israeli soldier, and Miriam's son (20)
YOUNG SAFIYYA -- Safiyya, twenty years earlier (early 20s)
YOUNG SAID -- Said, twenty years earlier (mid 20s)
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