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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Thursday, June 11, 2015
10 AM to 6 PM
lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
Showcase-NY
$400
Location
Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th Street
New York, NY
6th fl
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Seeking
Equity actors.
All the characters in the play deal, throughout, with the external reality of Germany of 1932-33. This reality surrounds them at all times, whether the characters admit to it or not
See breakdown
Preparation
Please prepare a contemporary dramatic monologue.
Bring picture and resume.
Other Dates
Rehearses: 8/17/15-9/9/15
Performs: 9/10/15-9/19/15
Personnel
Director: Nabi Abdurakhmanov
Playwright: Iddo Netanyahu,
Casting: Caroline Kaiser & Michael Morlani
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
All the characters in the play deal, throughout, with the external reality of Germany of 1932-33. This reality surrounds them at all times, whether the characters admit to it or not.
Seeking:
LEAH ERDMANN: [ROLE HAS BEEN CAST]around 40, Jewish, beautiful, overtly feminine, and outgoing. She is searching for greater meaning in her life and thinks she can find it by consuming Berlin’s cultural life and associating with artists and various intellectuals. She reacts with great distress to emerging signs of Nazism and anti-Semitism, but cannot admit that the Berlin and Germany she knows might be crumbling before her very eyes, and so tries to “will” Germany to be what she desires of it. Her affair with “Dieter”, who in her eyes is an idealized German of sorts, is perhaps part of this inner struggle of hers.
MARK ERDMANN: around 50, Jewish, professor of physics, an intellectual in the true sense of the word but devotes his time now almost exclusively to his physics research. He, like most of the Jews of Germany, is a German patriot who cannot bring himself to believe that the current wave of anti-Semitism is more than a passing phenomenon. He is somewhat of an introvert. Although in many ways he is a strong person, he has a grave inner weakness with regards to his standing as a Jew.
DIETER KRAFT: around 30, non-Jew, handsome with an inner manliness and independent spirit. He is strong-willed, stubborn and idealistic in his own way. Dieter is physicist and Mark Erdmann’s assistant. Having lived his childhood with his anti-Semitic parents and knowing German society through and through, he believes that the hatred of Jews has reached a degree that bodes ill for the Jews of Germany, and so urges the Erdamann’s to leave the country. He doesn’t understand the Erdmann’s psychological need to deny the fact that they, as Jews, are hated by German society.
HANS ERDMANN: a mature 17 year old, the son of Leah and Mark. He is a gifted poet. Unlike his parents, once he sees overt signs of anti-Semitic hatred toward him, he is unwilling to rationalize them away.
ANNA: Mid twenties, pretty, a non-Jew. Seeking an actress with dance/movement training. She is Mark’s secretary and is very stolid and German, lacking a sense of humor. These traits of hers are used to humorous effect in the play. She cares about Mark and empathizes with his suffering, taking action when necessary to protect him, but is basically willing to go along with the flow of the times.
MARTHA: 17 years old, Hans’s girl-friend, a non-Jew. She loves Hans and understands his precarious standing as a Jew and wants to help him. She however possesses a hidden strain of anti-Semitism inside her.
ENSEMBLE: Seeking all ages and ethnicities. Must be strong movers, and/or have a foundation in dance.
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