VILLA - NYC EPA
Play Company, The | New York, NY
AUDITION DATE
Monday, October 31, 2016
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LOA-NYC
$400.00/week
SEEKING
Equity actors who have a great technical facility with tempo and rhythm, which is crucial to conveying the humor of the text. Because of the subject matter of the play, political engagement or curiosity is also appreciated, but not required. We are looking for a multi-ethnic cast and actors of all ethnicities are encouraged to audition. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare one contemporary monologue no longer than two minutes in length. Bring picture and resume
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Written and Directed By: Guillermo Calderon FOUNDING PRODUCER: Kate Loewald INTERIM MANAGING DIRECTOR: Robert
Bradshaw
PRODUCING ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE:
Melissa Hardy (attending EPAs) CASTING DIRECTOR: Lisa Donadio
OTHER DATES
1ST REHEARSAL: o/a January 31, 2017
1ST PREVIEW: o/a March 1, 2017
OPEN: o/a March 12, 2017
MAX. RUN THROUGH: April 9, 2017
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
Synopsis of Villa:
During the Pinochet regime in Chile, approximately 5000 detainees were brought to Villa Grimaldi: most were tortured, hundreds “disappeared”. When the local citizens’ committee is unable to agree on a plan for the future of these blood-soaked facilities, three women are sequestered in a room and charged with finding consensus.
They gather around an architectural model of the estate to debate its ideal adaptation and grapple with a nation’s unwanted legacy. Should it have a new life or remain a memorial to the crimes committed there? How should we remember the violence of the state?
Seeking actors who have a great technical facility with tempo and rhythm, which is crucial to conveying the humor of the text. Because of the subject matter of the play, political engagement or curiosity is also appreciated, but not required. We are looking for a multi-ethnic cast and actors of all ethnicities are encouraged to audition.
CARLA:
36 – 40 Female; any ethnicity. She is strong and angry, and holds rigid political ideas, which she defends with passion. However, she is also gullible and falls for Francisca’s sly calculations.
FRANCISCA:
36 – 40 Female; any ethnicity. She is every bit as political as Carla but she tries to hide it. She is cunning and manipulative because she fears she cannot uphold her political position in a fair debate. Instead she resorts to lying and sometimes plays a romantic eccentric in order to slyly win in a political dispute.
MACARENA:
36 - 40 Female; any ethnicity. Is the “boss” of the meeting and the discussion that surrounds the vote. Despite this, she is insecure and doubts her own ideas. She is the voice of reason and that’s why she gets increasingly impatient as the meeting reaches a dead end.
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