HAZARDOUS MATERIALS - Chicago EPA
Equity Library Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Oct 02, 2017
10:00 am - 2:00 pm (CDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Appointments may be made by emailing ELTChicago@gmail.com with your preferred audition time. Walk-ins will also be seen.
CONTRACT
Staged Reading CodeStaged Reading; $50 for a maximum of 12 hours rehearsal and 1 performance.
SEEKING
AEA actors for a staged reading of the new play HAZARDOUS MATERIALS by Beth Kander. See breakdown for details.
PREPARATION
Please prepare one contemporary monologue. You may be invited to read a short side.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Dial 011 at front door.
PERSONNEL
Carrie Lee Patterson will attend with casting authority.
OTHER DATES
The reading will take place the evening of Monday, November 6th, and rehearsals will not begin before Wednesday, November 1st. The rehearsal schedule will be created based on the schedules of the actors who are cast.
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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
Seeking Equity actors for the next reading in Equity Library Theatre's All Access series, which features new plays with central characters who are women, people of color, LGBTQ+, and/or disabled.
2017 Selection: HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, by Beth Kander
Description:
The play takes place in one Chicago apartment, in two different eras. In 2015, new co-workers Hal and Cassie are investigating the residence where an elderly Jane Doe just died; in 1955, two strangers, Esther and Lynley, become tentative friends. In alternating scenes, two stories unfold within the same walls: As Hal and Cassie pick through the physical wreckage of a stranger’s life while dealing with their own emotional detritus, Lynley and Esther attempt to connect across very different worlds. With each object or truth unearthed or ignored in each era, one small apartment unfurls as home to timeless human longing.
Characters:
ESTHER—30s, female (1955). Jewish immigrant from Czechoslovakia, mild Czech accent. Her husband died fighting in World War II; the rest of her family died in concentration camps.
LYNLEY—30s, female (1955). African American woman from Alabama. Her husband was an American soldier who died in the Port Chicago munitions disaster in California.
HAL—40s, male (2015). Any ethnicity. New to this job, new to being divorced, feeling very wronged and thereby losing his grasp on right and wrong. Not a bad guy, but this is a desperate point in his life.
CASSIE—30s, female (2015). Any ethnicity. Working class Chicagoan, recovering alcoholic, former military, gruff exterior but kind-hearted with high moral standards.
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 audition.
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