BLOOD KNOT Equity Principal Auditions - Signature Theatre Company Auditions

BLOOD KNOT - Equity Principal Auditions

Signature Theatre Company Off-Broadway Expected salary: $544/week minimum.

Artistic Dir: James Houghton

Assoc Artistic Dir: Beth Whitaker

Author / Dir: Athol Fugard

GM: Adam Bernstein

Casting: Telsey + Company

1st reh: 1/3/12. Announced run: 1/31 – 3/11/12.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Actors’ Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City

Please prepare a contemporary monologue, 2 minutes or less.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Between patchwork walls in a one-room shack, two biracial South African brothers grapple with crippling poverty and lonely isolation. Morris, the punctilious force that keeps their room tidy, is light-skinned enough to pass for white, but dark-skinned Zach feels imprisoned by his job at a whites-only park. When they find themselves on some dangerous new ground, the brothers must come face to face with the blood knot between them.

Seeking (both roles are available):

Note: Both actors must have facility with South African accent.

Morris:

Mixed-race South African man, late 30s - mid 50s. Appears white. Has traveled the country, passing as white and receiving some education, but has returned home to live with his half-brother Zachariah in a dilapidated one-room shack. Keeps the house, and diligently puts their money aside toward buying a farm and a happier future for them. Mercurial, volatile; spins webs of words. Role requires comedic ability.

Zachariah:

Black South African man, late 30s - mid 50s. Morris’s half-brother. Works as a gatekeeper, keeping blacks from entering a whites-only park; supports himself and his half-brother Morris. Bitter, tired; longs for immediate pleasures—nights out, drinking, women. Brooding, dangerous; a man of few words; potential in him for violent actions. Role requires comedic ability.