DA Equity Principal Auditions - Irish Repertory Theatre Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday November 10, 2014
10 AM to 6 PM
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

Contract
ANTC
$506/week minimum

Location
DR2 Theatre
103 East 15th St
New York, NY

Seeking
Equity actors, men and women, who can speak with authentic Irish Accents, for various principal roles.

See breakdown.

Preparation
Prepare a short contemporary monologue, preferably under 2 minutes. Authentic Irish accents required.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together

Other Dates
Rehearsals scheduled to begin December 16th 2014
Performances scheduled to begin: January 14th, 2015
Closing date scheduled: March 8th, 2015

Personnel
Directed by Charlotte Moore
Casting Director: Deborah Brown
by Hugh Leonard

Attending the EPA:
Artistic Director Charlotte Moore
Producing Director Ciaran O’Reilly

· 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.

Breakdown

Synopsis: Hugh Leonard's classic memory play, DA is set in Dublin in the 1960s. Charlie returns to his childhood home after his father's funeral only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave the house or his son's mind. As Charlie rustles through his father's belongings, he surrenders to memories – both hilarious and wrenching -and the complex life of his adoptive upbringing appears before our eyes.

SEEKING:

Charlie Now
Late 40’s, a successful writer. Brittle, prickly. Sarcasm is often used as a shield as he relives the humiliations of growing up as an adopted child.

Oliver
40’s Charlie’s boyhood friend. Also plays himself as a young man in his 20’s. Solicitous and slightly puritanical.

Da
40’s to 70’s Charlie’s recently deceased adoptive father by times charming, servile, stubborn, thick, hilarious --a constant embarrassment to his son.

Mother
40-60 Charlie's long-deceased adoptive mother. A martyr to Charlie’s adoption. Religious and rigid loves Charlie in her way.

Charlie Then
19-31. Charlie as a boy and as a young man. Rebellious, intelligent teen.

Drumm
40-70. Charlie's employer and attempted mentor. Caustic, acerbic, does not suffer fools gladly.

The Yellow Peril
25-30 a young lady of loose morals. Dublin working class

Mrs. Prynne
50’s Da's old employer. Refined. A woman of quality