Theater Company Auditions for Three Show - Project
ID # 1479284
| Project Type |
Live Event |
Submission Type |
Open Call |
| Location |
Tucson, AZ |
Union |
Non-union |
| Rate/Pay |
n/a |
Release Date |
03-11-15 |
| Audition Date |
04-18-15 |
Submission Deadline |
04-17-15 |
| Shoot Date |
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity |
| Market(s) |
El Paso, TX>Phoenix, AZ |
BY THE BOG OF CATS by Marina Carr
(An Irish version of the Medea myth)
Loosely based on Euripides' tragedy Medea, this is the prophetic tale of Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she has loved have discarded her. Set on the bleak, ghostly landscape of the Bog of Cats, this provocative drama discloses one woman's courageous attempts to lay claim to that which is hers, as her world is torn in two. At the age of seven, Hester was abandoned on the side of the bog by her wild and fiercely independent mother, Big Josie Swane. Hester has spent a lifetime waiting for Big Josie to return. To compound her sense of abandonment, Hester's long-term lover, Carthage Kilbride, with whom she has a seven-year-old daughter, is selling her "down the river" for the promise of land and wealth through a marriage with the local big farmer's daughter. Alone and dejected, Hester has no one to whom she can turn except the local misfits, Monica Murray and the Catwoman. As ever in Carr's dramas, the small community is populated by richly woven characters—from the outrageous, stultifying mother of the groom, Mrs. Kilbride, to the brutal and mercenary farmer, Xavier Cassidy. In the final moments of the action, we witness a woman provoked beyond the limits of human endurance. BY THE BOG OF CATS is a furious, uncompromising tale of greed and betrayal, of murder and profound self-sacrifice.
ANNA IN THE TROPICS by Nilo Cruz
(Cuban-American cigar workers living in Florida in 1929)
The play is set in Ybor City, a section of Tampa and the center of the cigar industry. When Cuban immigrants brought the cigar-making industry to Florida in the 19th century, they carried with them another tradition. As the workers toiled away in the factory hand rolling each cigar, the lector, (historically well-dressed and well-spoken), would read to them. It was the lector who informed, organized and entertained the workers until the 1930s, when the rollers and the readers were replaced by mechanization.
In the play, the lector reads Anna Karenina, sparking the characters' lives and relationships to spin out of control.
4000 MILES by Amy Herzog
(A grandmother and grandson learn from each other in unexpected ways.)
After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 Miles looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.
Auditions consist of cold readings from script. |
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