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2009-2010 Auditions scheduled |
| Posted by Administrator (ncsc) on Aug 05 2009 at 8:45 PM |
NC Stage will be holding auditions for the 2009-2010 Season Saturday August 15th. BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
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North Carolina Stage Company 2009-2010 Season
North Carolina Stage Company
Asheville, NC
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Date of Audition
8/15/09
Location
North Carolina Stage Company
15 Stage Lane (off of Walnut St.)
Asheville, NC 28801
Time(s)
Saturday August 15
by APPOINTMENT
10 am - 3 pm
Appointments
For an appointment, call 828-239-0263 between 10 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday, beginning July 27. Deadline for requesting an appointment is 12 pm August 14.
Personnel
Angie Flynn-McIver, Producing Director
Ron Bashford, Guest Director
Willie Repoley, Producing Director, Immediate Theatre Project, Partner Company in Residence
Contract
Special Appearance Agreement*
Seeking
Equity and non-Equity actors.
Breakdown
A breakdown has been included for this notice.
Preparation
Sides will be provided. If time allows, actors may read more than one side.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
*Minimum weekly salary: $300.
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Breakdown for
North Carolina Stage Company 2009-2010 Season
North Carolina Stage Company
Asheville, NC
Special Appearance Agreement
2009-2010 Season:
BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE by Martin Mcdonagh. Dir: Angie Flynn-McIver.
1st rehearsal: 9/28. Runs 10/21 - 11/8 with possible extension to 11/15.
All characters need convincing, fluent Irish accents. Martin McDonagh's movie, "In Bruges", gives a feel for the type of humor in the play, as does a reading of his other works.
Maureen Folan:
Woman, 40ish. Lives in Leenane, the small Irish town where she grew up. She is a spinster, stuck caring for her mother, Mag, who is in failing health and is quite domineering. Maureen has a history of mental illness. She knows that there is a bigger, brighter world out there and mostly thinks it's impossible for her to reach, but she does have glimmers of hope. She feels acutely the loss of her youth and attractiveness to the years of caring for her ungrateful mother. She has violent depths.
Mag Folan:
Woman, 70ish. Lives in Leenane, a small Irish town, with her daughter, Maureen. Her other two daughters live far away and rarely visit. Mag has a bad leg, which keeps her housebound, so she relies on Maureen for everything. She is terrified that if Maureen leaves her, she will be put in a home of some sort, so she clings to Maureen, doing anything in her power to keep her there. She is cunning.
Pato Dooley:
Man, 40s. Pato grew up in Leenane, but has worked most of his adult life in England, since jobs are so scarce in Ireland. Despite getting out of Ireland, his prospects are still limited and his disappointment is mitigated by becoming reacquainted with Maureen. He is a good and sensitive man, if somewhat passive.
Ray Dooley:
Boy, 19. Ray is Pato's younger brother. He feels trapped in Leenane, and is oppressed by the tedium of a small town. He does what he is asked by his elders because he knows he must, but he finds small ways to rebel.
TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard
Dir: Angie Flynn-McIver
1st rehearsal: January 25. Runs 2/17 - 3/7 with possible extension to 3/14.
LEE and AUSTIN are cast.
Saul Kimmer:
Man, 30s - 50s. A Hollywood producer. Saul is motivated purely by profit, but he is a real person, not a parody.
Mother:
Woman, 60s - 70s. She recognizes her sons' limitations but seems to hold out hope that they can all be civil. At the very least, she wants to protect her own space and her own things. Not very worldly or sophisticated.
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton, dir: Ron Bashford
1st rehearsal: 3/24 Runs 5/12 - 30 with possible extension to 6/6.
All actors should be skilled in English dialects, and good at physically disciplined, articulate light comedy. This is an ensemble piece with all roles of equal importance. Actors interested in the comic tone of the play should watch one of the anarchic films of Lindsay Anderson (i.e., “Oh Lucky Man!” and “If...”). Actors with experience with Noel Coward, Shaw or Shakespeare (or a passion for Monty Python or Black Adder) especially desired.
Dr. Prentice. Early to mid 40s. Married psychiatrist with a penchant for younger women. Authoritative and charming, though at his core he is conventional and naive. Not necessarily conventionally handsome. Actor should be deft at light comedy and able to play the hapless protagonist amid increasing chaos.
Geraldine Barclay. Mid-20s. Very attractive but not seductive. A young woman from a lower-middle class background looking for a job who tends to follow the rules.
Mrs Prentice. Late 30s to early 50s (younger okay with strong, earthy bearing). Frustrated in her marriage, she is a woman conflicted between conventional middle-class pretensions and an unconventionally liberated appetites that she associates with the higher status to which she aspires. Dignified, commanding, sexy.
Nicholas Beckett. Early 20s. Unscrupulous, working-class, hotel bellboy. Rough, sexual, attractive but not pretty, street smart, but still green.
Dr Rance. Early to mid 60s. Supervising psychiatrist in authority over many others. Typifies the underlying insanity and violence of the power structure while exemplifying the civilized veneer essential to its maintenance. Irresistibly commanding.
Sergeant Match. Mid-40s. Proto-typical British police sergeant with conventional beliefs in law and order but lacking the intellect or education to rise above his station.