STREET SCENE Equity Principal Auditions - Brave New World Repertory Theatre Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday, March 25, 2013
3 PM - 10 PM
Break 6 - 7.

Contract
Showcase-NY
Tiered Showcase Code; $250 stipend

Location
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Studio G (holding) Studio B (audition room)

Seeking
Actors (m/f) for various roles.

See breakdown

Preparation
Prepare a contemporary monologue under 2 minutes.

Bring picture/resume, stapled together.

Other Dates
Dates: June 22 - 23 and 29 - 30, 2013

Other
People of color especially encouraged to attend.

Set in Harlem 1929

Personnel
Writer: Elmer Rice
Director: Claire Beckman

· 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

Set in Harlem 1929

Seeking:

Anna Maurrant (40s)
Rose Maurrant, her daughter (20s)
Sam Kaplan (20s)
Frank Maurrant (50s)

and various other characters

Synopsis/Info:
Before Elmer Rice's Street Scene was produced, nothing quite like it had ever been seen on the New York stage. The play takes place entirely on the front stoop of a New York City brownstone and examines the complex daily lives of the lower income inhabitants of the building (and surrounding neighborhood.) Rice captures an evening and a morning in the life of a New York City "village" rife with domestic quarrels, racial and ethnic tensions and economic anxiety.

Brave New World Repertory Theatre's site-specific production sets this “village within a city” in Harlem New York, which in 1929 was a neighborhood in transition, primarily African American and Latino, with the Jewish, Italian and other immigrant groups in the minority. Beckman says "I want to direct productions that reflect the community I see when I look down the subway car." This production will attempt to do what all good site-specific productions do: take the period piece out of the proscenium box, and into our contemporary world, while at the same time bringing that diverse and dynamic contemporary world to the period play through casting that will explore the intense and culturally rich story of the community a few blocks uptown.

NOTE from the producer:
Elmer Rice’s seldom produced modern classic, Street Scene, winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, will receive an environmental staging from Brooklyn’s own award-winning company Brave New World Rep.

Director Claire Beckman is creating a multi-cultural interpretation of the play reflecting the full urban melting pot of New York City, and spilling the play into an outdoor setting; the first and second floor windows and front stoop/sidewalk of an apartment building in an urban neighborhood in Brooklyn.