DATES!
Audition Dates: Wednesday, January 30, 7:00-9:00 pm
Thursday January 31,
1:00-4:00 pm and 6:00-8:00 pm (or by appointment at other times)
Callbacks: Saturday February 2, 3:00-7:00 pm or by appointment. Actors will be paired and given sides in advance.
Rehearsals begin the week of February 4th; rehearsal schedule TBD.
Performance Dates:
March 15-31 Performances will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm, March 15 through March 31.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Kristine Holtvedt is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of the Professional Actor Training Program at Purdue University. Professional directing credits include The Beaux' Stratagem at the Texas Shakespeare Festival, Hip My Heart at the Phoenix Theatre, The Zoo Story at the Toronto Fringe Festival, as well as a number of original plays as a member of Circle Repertory Company's LAB theatre in New York City. She directed the world premiere of Charlotte Cushman for the SummerNITE Festival in Chicago. Kristine directed The Foreigner and played Mme. de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Princeton Repertory Company. She has also directed at New Jersey's George Street Playhouse, Atlantic Theatre Festival and Levin Theatre Company. Kristine recently directed A Midsummer Night's Dream at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and will direct Much Ado About Nothing at the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre in June 2013. At Purdue, she directed Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Amadeus, The Shape of Things, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Gut Girls, Big Love, Into the Woods, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Arcadia, and the premiere of His Occupation by Ross Maxwell.
Kristine taught acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, the St. Nicholas Theatre and Actors Repertory Company in Chicago. She studied acting with William Esper in New York City and received her Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. |
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Aux Dog Theatre produced All in the Timingby
David Ives at The Gorilla Tango in its inaugural season.
Venus in Fur is a funny and erotic take on the battle of the sexes with a slightly kinky twist. A playwright/director is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Furs. Enter Vanda Jordan, a vulgar, frantic actress who missed her audition hours ago. The young actress seems at first to have no chance of landing the part, but slowly proves herself a talent and a force to match the director. A provocative, sexy drama that represents yet another departure for the multifaceted David Ives, writer of
All in the Timing.
Looking for:
1 actor; 1 actress.
Both need to create two distinct physical, vocal and psychological characters: their "real" character and the character they create in the play-within-the-play. Both actors must have comic ability and be able to express sensuality and sexuality, and be willing to explore the sadomasochistic relationship in the play-within-the-play.
Vanda Jordan / Vanda von Dunayev
- Vanda, 20's. Beautiful, mysterious, spontaneous, pushy, emotional, sensual, intelligent but crass, desperate for the job. She strips down to black lingerie, a garter, very high heels and a dog collar. Her speech may be somewhat strident, in more of a New York dialect. A very good actress although you wouldn't know it from her behavior.
- Dunayev. Elegant, sensual/sexual, flirtatious, a provocateur, disdainful, haughty, her sexuality is expressed through sadism. The dialect is "phony transatlantic" - slightly Hungarian, her voice is warmer and in a lower-range than the "real" Vanda.
Thomas Novachek / (Severin von) Kushemski
- Novachek, 30s. Arrogant, impatient, curious, sexual, masochistic, inwardly insecure and frightened of passion. Considers himself an intellectual and is arrogant about that and his education. More than willing to "play the game". He is also a very good actor.
- Kushemski. Aristocratic, refined, tries to be dominant but cannot because he doesn't want to be. His sexuality is expressed through his masochism. The dialect is "phony transatlantic" -slightly Hungarian.
Actors are asked to prepare one contemporary comedic monologue and one contemporary dramatic monologue; not to exceed 4 minutes each.
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Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill
3011 Monte Vista Blvd. NE
(between Richmond & Girard)
Albuquerque, NM 87106
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