Gingold Theatrical Group
CONTRACT
Mini $580 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
On video, clearly state your name and role, perform one character monologue provided at https://gingoldgroup.org/mrs-warrens-profession/mrs-warrens-profession-auditions/, no more than 3 minutes total. Upload your video to YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, or other third-party platform; do not send your video as a file attachment. E-mail a link to your video with Picture/Resume as attachments. In subject line: MW Auditions + your name / In body of email, include which one character you are auditioning for
Deadline: Wed, Aug 4, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Gingold Theatrical Group staff producers.
David Staller, director
Alyce Stark, general manager
April Kline, Equity Production Stage Manager
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: September 14
Performances: October 12 through November 20
OTHER
Theatre Row, (Theatre Two) 410 West 42nd Street. This is an indoor 99-seat theatre.
Rehearsals: ART/NY, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
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
MRS. WARREN / 40-50ish / British accent: able to put on ‘posh’ but from a working class background. / Mrs. Kitty Warren is a charismatic, proud, and highly accomplished businesswoman, which means that she’s adept at playing any role required to triumph in a male dominated society in the early part of the 20th century in England. She has learned about life the hard way, from the ground up. Refusing to accept the defeatist structure imposed upon her, she has crafted the veneer of a ‘respectable woman’ while running a highly profitable string of elegant brothels in Europe. She has been supporting her daughter, who is now 20 and excelling in college, from afar, and surprises her during her summer holiday. During this visit, they get to know each other for the first time, and the encounter forces them both to confront all aspects of their lives and who they wish to be. In the course of this summer holiday, Mrs. Warren articulates her own past, aloud, for the first time, and realizes how much she has accomplished in life and how much it has cost her. She has been fighting every moment of her existence and now, looking into the future, she tries to imagine what it would be like to really share who she is with someone, hoping it might be her daughter. She can transition from an aggressive take-no-prisoners business woman into a flirtatious teenager on a dime, and enjoys the many roles she gets to play in her carefully constructed world.
VIVIE WARREN // 20ish / British accent: RP. / Vivie has a quick and facile mind. She is fiercely independent and has sublimated her emotional life into her world as an award winning academic. Never having any family connections, supported by her mother whom she barely knows, she has excelled in mathematics and plans to become a businesswoman having graduated from the famous women’s college, Newnham. While on summer holiday in the English countryside, her mother appears for a brief visit and they learn about each other for the first time. Vivie discovers that her entire life has been financed by her mother’s great success as the manager of high-class brothel hotels in Europe, which forces Vivie to make decisions about who she wishes to create her own future.
FRANK GARDNER / 20ish / British accent: RP. / Frank is a skilled opportunist and manipulator, used to getting his way by using his easy charm and an overt sexual energy designed to impact both men and women. He’s boyishly adorable and he knows it. He had created a life among artists and aristocrats in London, having escaped the numbingly conservative confines of small-village life with his father, who is a Reverend. Having dried up all financial possibilities, he has returned to his father’s house, enduring the constant sermons about respectability, to make plans for returning to London and the high life. While in the village he has befriended Vivie Warren, finding solace as the two imagine themselves to be innocent and uncomplicated children.
PRAED / 40-50ish / British accent: RP. / He is the younger son from an aristocratic British family, meaning he was not the heir but has a guaranteed income. He has a naturally sweet, loving, and forgiving nature: fascinated by the world and human nature. He views himself as an artist, more through appreciation than creating, and travels the world with gusto. Along his life’s path, probably while quite young, he befriended Mrs. Warren and has always felt parentally protective of her and his ingrained image of her as an impressionable younger woman. He has always longed to meet her daughter, Vivie, and is thrilled to finally be with her on a summer’s holiday weekend.
SIR GEORGE CROFTS / 40-50ish / British accent: upper class RP. / The eldest son of a prominent British aristocratic family, he views the world as a series of pragmatic negotiations that he will always win. He is the prime example of the male dominated British Empire: entitled without apology, a bit sociopathic in not feeling responsible for anything other than his own needs, vain, and unprincipled. Having quickly gone through his family fortunes, he has become the respectable frontman for the string of upper-class brothels he has created with Mrs. Warren, who manages them. These brothels are exceedingly successful, which allows George to continue moving in the appropriate social circles, but society also expects him to have a wife, so he has come with Mrs. Warren on a summer holiday to visit her daughter in the English country-side as a possible bride.
REVEREND SAMUEL GARDNER / 40-50ish / British accent: RP / He is the Reverend of a small church in a small village in England, and determined to maintain his place as a spotlessly respectable family man and representative of the Church of England. He was the younger son of an aristocratic family, so was not the heir. As a young man, he was living on a fixed income and proceeded to overspend and live the high-life in London until his family stepped in and forced him into the role he now, rather uncomfortably, plays as the religious leader of the community. He had known Mrs. Warren during his wilder years and is shocked and dismayed to suddenly find her in his domain. He has tried to keep his colorful past hidden from his son, who is clearly determined to follow in his past playboy ways, but the Reverend has little control over his son. Encountering Mrs. Warren again forces him to realize how unengaged he has been with his own life.
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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