MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! Equity Principal Auditions - Signature Theatre Company Auditions

MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!

- Equity Principal Auditions

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

Artistic Dir: James Houghton

Assoc Artistic Dir: Beth Whitaker

Author: Athol Fugard

Dir: Ruben Santiago-Hudson

GM: Adam Bernstein

Casting: Telsey + Company

1st reh: 4/3/12. Announced run: 5/1-6/10.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Friday, December 9, 2011 Theatre Row Studios

10:30 AM – 6:30 PM 411 West 41st Street

Lunch from 1 – 2. New York City

Doors open at 9:30 AM. Ring buzzer for admittance.

Please prepare a contemporary monologue, 2 minutes or less.

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

In a classroom in a small, Eastern Cape Karoo town in South Africa in 1984, Mr. M, an idealistic teacher, seeks to provide a future for his gifted student Thami by forming a debate team with Isabel, a spirited student from the local white school. But outside the classroom, Mr. M’s hopes for Thami are challenged by their generational divide and increasing political unrest.

Seeking (all roles are available):

Note: All actors must have facility with a South African accent.

Mr. M:

Black South African, 50s-70s. Teacher and debate team coach at an impoverished, all-black boys’ school. Joyful, energetic, deeply hopeful, and in love with words. Relishes his job and his students, and the possibility of effecting change in them.

Isabel:

White South African female, age 17 (age-appropriate actors and actors 18+ will be considered). Top student and debater from a nearby, privileged, all-white girls’ school. Intelligent, impassioned, and in love with language. Stubborn, idealistic and opinionated. A fighter.

Thami:

Black South African male, age 17 (age-appropriate actors and actors 18+ will be considered). Mr. M’s most prized pupil. Brilliant, playful, charismatic and self-assured. A natural leader. Highly impatient, and resentful of authority and “old-fashioned” ways of thinking.