THE HAUNTED INN - Equity Principal Auditions
Target Margin Theater LOA-NYC (approval/salary level pending; 2011-12 weekly minimum: $317).
Author: Peretz Hirschbein
Dir: David Herskovits
1st reh: 1/29/13. Runs 3/6–30 at the Abrons Arts Center.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Thursday, October 11, 2012 A. R. T. NY South Oxford Space
10 AM - 6 PM 138 South Oxford Street
Lunch from 12:30 – 1:30. Brooklyn, NY 11217
Please prepare monologue (2 minutes or less) written before 1940. Please be comfortable with the language and confident in using it. Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.
Part of Target Margin’s current two-season exploration of the Yiddish theater. The shtetl turns uncanny in this classic of Yiddish life. You might be expecting the farm life, the chicken-plucking and the arranged marriage, but not the S&M lust and the body-snatching wedding guests. The play is challenging in form and in tone. In the first act, we seem to be in a familiar world, a shtetl farm where grandfathers kvell over their granddaughters, homespun villagers pluck chickens, and the question of how a young girl is to be married off animates the action. “Fiddler on the Roof”? Not at all. The subsequent action grows more and more surreal. This play is Tevye on drugs.
Seeking ensemble members (m/f) for the following principal characters:
Theatre’s casting note: “Actors for this company must be comfortable working in various performance modes. Our company is experimental, and we plan to use stylized and formalized acting, exaggerated melodramatic, as well as more familiar psychologically based acting for this production. Performers must be comfortable not only with embracing those styles but shifting among them in the course of the production. Experience with classical drama and with experimental performance are both useful.”
Bendet: Man, 40s-50s. A provincial horse-dealer.
Khyenne: 40s-50s. Bendet’s wife.
Meta: 20s-30s. Bendet and Khyenne’s daughter. A mysterious and passionate woman.
Shakhne: 50s-60s or older. Bendet’s father.
Itsik: 20s-30s. His brother’s son. A mysterious and passionate man.
Tsipke: Teens or 20s (or even younger). Itsik’s sister.
Eisik: 40s-50s. An innkeeper. One of Bendet’s neighbors.
Leibush: 20s-30s. Eisik’s son.
Theatre’s statement: “We are especially committed to an ethnically diverse cast of all age ranges.”
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