GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY 2012 DRAMAS Equity Principal Auditions - Gloucester Stage Company Auditions

Gloucester Stage Company 2012 Dramas

– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in MA

Gloucester MA NEAT (approval/salary level pending; 2011 weekly minimum: $350).

Artistic Dir: Eric C. Engel

Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:

Saturday, February 11, 2012 BCA Plaza Theater

9 AM – 5 PM 539 Tremont Street

Lunch from 1 - 2. Boston, MA

and

Monday, February 27, 2012 Gloucester Stage Company

10 AM – 6 PM 267 E Main Street

Lunch from 2 – 3. Gloucester, MA

For an appointment, call 978/281-4099 (12-4 PM, M-F). Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout each audition day, as time permits.

Five-minute appointments. Each Equity Member has a minimum of three minutes to audition. Please prepare material of your choice (monologue(s)/scene(s), including, if you wish, selections from the season’s plays). Theatre prefers contemporary monologues. For those who wish to perform a scene, a reader will be available. Please be prepared to state your starting and stopping places. Scripts are available at StageSource, 88 Tremont St., Boston. No singing today; see separate notice for 2/25/12 CARNIVAL! Equity Performer Auditions.

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

2012 season non-musicals. All dates are in 2012. Some roles have been cast and are so identified; for those roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.

Master Harold … and the Boys by Athol Fugard. Dir: Benny Ambush. 1st reh: 7/10. Runs 7/26-8/12.

Hally:

AVAILABLE ROLE. 17-year-old white South African boy. Son of the owners of a Port Elizabeth tea room. Rebellious, sharply moody, opinionated. Unconsciously swimming in white privilege. An atheist. Precocious, clever and smart. Deeply troubled by and conflicted about his alcoholic disabled dad’s behavior. Intellectually curious but undisciplined. Tempted by Sam’s vision of a world without collision.

Willie Malopo:

AVAILABLE ROLE. 30-45, black South African man. A waiter. Uneducated, poor laborer; a follower of Sam. A worrier. A jokester. Beats his women. Ballroom dances poorly. Impatient. Masks his deep, vulnerable feelings with humor. Initiates reenactments. Cleans, polishes, washes, tidies up. Re-thinks his relationship with Hilda by play’s end – transforms.

Sam:

CAST. Late 40s, black South African man. A waiter working for Hally's father in St. George's Park Tea Room. Has spent a great deal of time attempting to strengthen Hally's faith in himself, and to separate Hally's father's faults from Hally's own sense of identity. Sam functions simultaneously as Hally's friend, father, servant, teacher and student. Although Sam cares deeply for Hally, he knows his place in society as a servant and, because of his respect for family and in spite of Hally's parents' imperfections, he can never take the place of Hally's actual family. Sam is not immune to feelings of betrayal when Hally acts out, adopting the racism of his father and destroying their former bond. While they both try to reconcile at the end, it is ultimately Sam's age and experience with society's racism that exceeds Hally's understanding of why they can't return to the way things were.

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. Dir: Carmel O'Reilly. 1st reh: 8/4. Runs 8/30-9/16.

Chick Boyle:

AVAILABLE ROLE. Woman, late 20s - mid 40s. The McGrath sisters’ cousin. A “drama queen”; flamboyant, slightly vulgar. Into everyone’s business.

Meg McGrath:

AVAILABLE ROLE. Early 20s - mid 30s. The middle sister. Fun-loving, wild, artistic. A touch of sadness about her. Unbalanced.

Babe McGrath:

AVAILABLE ROLE. Woman, late teens - 20s. The youngest sister. Angelic. Volatile, strong-willed. Pretty.

Doc Porter:

AVAILABLE ROLE. Man, early 20s - early 40s. Meg's old boyfriend. Attractive. Worn. Has a slight limp. Sensitive. Seductive.

Barnett Lloyd:

AVAILABLE ROLE. Man, early 20s - mid 30s. Babe's lawyer. Fanatically intellectual. Uses sheer will to hide his feelings.

Lenny McGrath:

CAST. Woman, late 20s - early 40s. The oldest sister. Dutiful, caring. Lonely, a dreamer.

Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn. Dir: Eric C. Engel. 1st reh: 5/30. Runs 6/14-7/1.

Norman:

CAST. A librarian. Hyperactive, endearing, smart, obsessed with women.

Ruth:

CAST. Norman’s wife. Tough exterior, big heart. Professional. Sometimes forgets to stop and smell the roses.

Reg:

CAST. Ruth’s brother. Simple needs and interests. A real estate broker, golfer, board-game player.

Sarah:

CAST. Reg’s wife. Obsessed with order. Underappreciated and lonely.

Annie:

CAST. Sarah and Reg’s younger sister. Keeping up the family home. Unadorned—some would say to a fault. Slow-paced. Has difficulty making decisions.

Tom:

CAST. A veterinarian. Kind and genuine, but definitely not the brightest bulb on the chandelier.

NINE Circles by Bill Cain. Dir: Eric C. Engel. 1st reh: 8/7. Runs 8/16- 8/26.

Daniel Reeves:

CAST. Emotionally disturbed but extremely smart soldier.

Multi-Role Male-Character Track:

CAST. Actor plays an Army Sergeant, a Military Lawyer, a Minister and a Civilian Lawyer.

Multi-Role Female-Character Track:

CAST. Actress plays a Civilian Lawyer and a Military Psychiatrist.