Kansas City Actors Theatre
CONTRACT
SPT $625 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
SEEKING
Good storytellers. All genders, ages, and races. The script is composed of writings from teenage diaries and their stories will be told by actors who are not necessarily the same age, gender or race as the teenagers.
There are 4 roles. Each role functions as a narrator telling the story of a teenager who has witnessed a genocide and recorded their impressions in a diary. The actors will not need to embody the characters of the teenagers, but rather tell their story effectively.
The roles are, simply, Actor 1, Actor 2, Actor 3 and Actor 4.
Kansas City Actors Theatre is very committed to local actors.
INSTRUCTIONS
See preparation in breakdown. Please submit video no later than Sunday, August 1st.
Deadline: Sun, Aug 1, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Written by Mark Edelman
Directed by John Rensenhouse (viewing auditions)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal - October 5th
Opening - October 8th
Closing - October 31st
Potential workshop of the script in August
OTHER
Production is designed with Covid safety in mind. It will be performed ‘readers theatre’ style with chairs and music stands for scripts. All properly spaced. We will be working with a fully vaccinated company.
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Please slate with your name. Then read the following two passages. You do not need to fully memorize. You are not pretending to be the teenager. You are telling the teenager’s story.
#1
On the day when the soldiers were being sent to the front, the entire population of the city gathered at the garrison, to wish well to those who were leaving. We were also there, as we had many compatriots among those who were departing. After the prayers and good wishes, the leader of the Union and Progress Party made a speech. His words chilled the hearts of the Christians who were there. “We are going off to fight and God willing, we will smash the heads of all of the infidels , who are the enemies of our father and our homeland.
#2
They knock at eleven in the morning. Mom opens the door, and a German army officer, two policemen, and the superintendent come in. The officer asks how many persons are in the apartment, looks at the beds, asks about bedbugs and if we have a radio. He doesn’t find anything worthy of taking and finally leaves disappointed. At the neighbors (naturally they only go to Jews), he took away radios, mattresses, comforters, carpets, etc. They took away the Grabiniskis’ only down quilt.
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 submit.
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