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Call Type
Non-Required Principal
Time(s)
OPEN Auditions (AEA/Non-AEA) by APPOINTMENT (2 days)
Monday, December 8, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
4 PM to 8 PM
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Contract
Special Appearance
Location
Compass Rose Theater
49 Spa Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
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Seeking
Equity and non-Equity actors for various roles.
see breakdown.
Preparation
Sides will be available at the theater on day of audition. Please email if you have a medical condition which requires your receiving sides in advance of appointment. Please bring headshot and resume.
Other Dates
1st rehearsal: January 5, 2015. Runs January 30 – March 7, 2015 (Thursday - Saturday evenings, Saturday and Sunday matinees)
Other
Please email office@compassrosetheater.org if you are unavailable for these audition times but wish to be considered.
Personnel
Producing Artistic Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne
Stage Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne
Author: T.S. Eliot
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Please email audition@compassrosetheater.org.
Questions - please call 443-534-9033 Please leave short message.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Play Description - T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This gripping drama portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Becket struggles with four tempters, each with posing a different challenge. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.
Male Roles
Thomas Becket
(age range 35-55) Spiritual leader, strong, bright, with a soul searching for truth
Priests 1, 2, 3
(age range 25-55) All speaking with Becket of his life and work, challenging, probing.
Tempters and Knights 1, 2, 3, and 4
(age range 25-55) - Four men. Varying from wicked to noble these spirits pursue Becket with temptation. Knights and tempters played by the same actors. Knights- Noble, practical, of this earth.
Female Roles –
Chorus
Four female parts, speaking in unison, the voice of the play. Aching, yearning, searching, tied to the earth but seeking spiritual answers.
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