LEAH, THE FORESAKEN - NYC Appointments
Metropolitan Playhouse
APPOINTMENTS
NYC auditions to be held on an upcoming date TBD by appointment only.
CONTRACT
Showcase-NYTier III Showcase $650.00 Stipend
SEEKING
Actors for various roles. See breakdown.
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, Mail or Email picture and resume ASAP. Mark submissions: LEAH, THE FORESAKEN [Role___] / NYC Appointment submission
Deadline: Fri, Dec 9, 2016
SUBMIT TO
casting@metropolitanplayhouse.org
Metropolitan Playhouse220 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10009
PERSONNEL
Director: Francis X. Kuhn
Playwright: Augustin Daly
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 1/11/16; Opening: 2/10/16; Closing 3/12/16
OTHER
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
BREAKDOWN
LEAH, THE FORSAKEN, by Augustin Daly (February 10 – March 12, 2017)
First performed in 1862, a tale of treachery, retribution, and the promise of forgiveness by the Master of Melodrama. In early 18th century Austria, a young Christian falls in love with a Jewish emigrant, fleeing persecution in Hungary, and kept in flight by anti-Semitic settlement laws. Their secret love sabotaged by a vindictive townsman, her lover casts her aside believing her to be false, and receives her curse in return.
Women
LEAH
Jewish refugee, self-reliant, passionate, faces daily prejudice, fear, and persecution from a community that condemns her very existence, 20s
MADALENA
Idealistic, charitable young Christian, devoted to her dear friend, Rudolf. 20s
SARAH
Impoverished Jewish refugee with infant child, 20-30s
YOUNG GIRL
child, to play age 4
DAME GERTRUDE
Revered matriarch in the town. 40s-60s.
MOTHER GROSCHEN
Narrow-minded busy body in the town. 30-50s
ROSEL
Young woman in love with a farmer. 18-25.
Men
RUDOLF
Kind, stalwart, promising, young citizen, fiercely attached to Leah, and equally fierce in condemning her when he believe she has broken faith with him. 20s.
LORENZ
Rudolf’s father, and the town magistrate, gentle-hearted but trapped by the traditions and prejudices of his community and its laws. 50-60s.
NATHAN
opportunistic schoolteacher, willing to sacrifice everything (including his Jewish identity) for his self-preservation. 40s – 50s.
FATHER HERMAN
freethinking Catholic priest, torn between his beliefs and the prejudices of his congregation. 50s.
LUDWIG
comic relief, the town doctor and barber, braggart, dedicated to his calling. 50’s/60’s
ABRAHAM
Kindly, blind Jewish refugee, 50’s+
JACOB
Young earnest farmer in love. 18-25.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
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