SOTTO VOCE Submission - Asolo Repertory Theatre Auditions

Send To

Email
Klappercasting@gmail.com

Contract
LORT Non-Rep
D; $600/week AEA minimum

Seeking
NYC Auditions on 10/20 by appointment only.

Seeking submissions from AEA members only for these appointments.
The AEA member must submit him/herself directly to be considered via this posting.

See breakdown for info

Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: Mar 13, 2015
1st Preview: Mar 31
Opening: Apr 2
Closing: Apr 26, 2015

Personnel
Director: Melissa Kievman
Playwright: Nilo Cruz
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting

Other
Email picture and resume ASAP.
Indicate in subject line: SOTTO VOICE/ [ROLE submitting for] / NY APPT / AEA SUBMISSION

Breakdown

In this dreamlike sonata of a play, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) examines the resiliency of true love and the indelible power of memories. German-born novelist Bemadette Kahn lost the love of her life during World War II when he fled Nazi Germany on the S.S. St. Louis, a ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees seeking haven in North America. Both Cuba and the U.S. turned the ship away, leaving many of the passengers to return to Europe and perish in Nazi Concentration Camps. Bemadette’s past resurfaces when a young Jewish-Cuban writer contacts her to research the ship’s tragic voyage, which also claimed the life of his great aunt. As their relationship deepens, they are enveloped by a transcendent romance based on her memories of her great lost love.

SEEKING:

BEMADETTE KAHN
80 years old: A woman who has aged gracefully. Time has been good to her and she looks more like she’s in her sixties. Bemadette is a graceful and elegant woman. She is a recluse because she dedicates all her time to her writing. She possesses a vulnerability which she disguises by her inordinate pride. It is a wounded pride. She is headstrong and set in her ways, but she is also a romantic at heart. The actress playing Bemadette should be able to get in touch with the dynamic and youthful side of the character. She should be able to transform herself from being a distrustful soul to an almost adolescent girl infatuated with life all over again. She should be limber and agile. But more than anything, passionate. She is an artist and that is her true nature.

SAQUIEL RAFAELI
28 years old: A young man of Jewish-Cuban descent. He is passionate and romantic. He was worked hard at creating a unique and bohemian look for himself. In flashbacks he also plays Ariel Strauss, a German-Jewish man in his twenties.