PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - Equity video submissions
Actor's Express Theatre Company | Atlanta, GA
Notice: Submission
SPT
$437 weekly minimum (SPT 4)
Equity actors for roles in PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC (See breakdown).
Actors Express is fully committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunity. We are committed to principles of ethical and diverse representation in our casting.
FOR PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS SEE BREAKDOWN. Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video link at:
https://airtable.com/shr4036IwonjSkgt2.
Deadline: 11/21/2022
Written by Joshua Harmon
Viewing auditions:
Director – Freddie Ashley
Casting Director – Justin Kalin
Associate Artistic Director – Amanda Washington
First rehearsal: March 21, 2023
Tech: April 15-16, 2023
Dress Rehearsals: April 18-19, 2023 Previews: April 20-21, 2023
Opening: April 22, 2023
Closing: May 14, 2023
Performances: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday 7:30pm; Sundays 2pm and 7:30. No Friday night performances. Friday matinees on 4/21 and 5/12. 5 performances per week
Please note that Actor’s Express has committed to five-day work weeks.
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.
Please prepare one of the sides (available at: https://actors-express.com/get-involved/#auditions ) for the character which you are interested in submitting. If you don’t have access to a reader, please present one of the monologues provided. Additional and alternate material will not be considered. Actors wishing to be considered for the role of Young Pierre may present a monologue of their choosing in the style of the play. No memorization required.
Marcelle - Female 50-69. A doctor, a mother. Very French. Jewish. Has a solid sense of her identity and place in the world. She recently achieved the status she’s worked her whole career for. A forceful personality. She runs the show and does not suffer fools.
Charles - Male 50-69. Marcelle’s husband. Also a doctor. A father. An Algerian Jew who has lived in France since his family fled Algeria when he was 6. Even-keeled and kind. Urbane. Thoughtful and solid. A man who knows from experience how bad things can get, and while he doesn’t live in fear, he lives with that awareness.
Elodie - Female 20-29. Marcelle and Charles’ daughter. French-Algerian. Opinionated, outspoken, sarcastic, combative. Very smart, very funny. Quite depressed. Lives with her parents.
Daniel - Male 20-29. Marcelle and Charles’ son. French-Algerian. A teacher in a Jewish school in a Jewish neighborhood. He has, in recent years, steadily become more religious than the rest of his family. Sexy in an unassuming way. A bit of an introvert who feels things strongly. Easy to like.
Patrick - Male 50-69. Marcelle’s brother. Our narrator. An entirely secular jew. To the point where he thinks religion, in general, is nonsense. Wry, ironic and charming. As outspoken as his sister and quite certain of his views.
Molly - Female 20-29. Distant American cousin. In France to study abroad. A bright and opinionated young woman who is optimistic and game. Far from ignorant, but her experience of the world is not yet very broad. We watch her assimilate some of the ancient complexities of the world as the play unfolds.
Pierre - Male 80+. Marcelle and Patrick’s father. The last of many generations to run the family’s piano store. A Holocaust survivor. The pain of his memories is kept in check by unflagging pragmatism, his belief in the primacy of family, and the familiarity of the piano store.
Irma - Female 60-79. Pierre’s grandmother. Unsentimental, very French. A Jewish mother who survived WWII in her apartment with her husband, not knowing the fate of any of their children. Surpassing her worry and despair costs her, but she manages it.
Adolphe - Male 60-79. Pierre’s grandfather. Visually impaired. A Jewish father who survived WWII in his apartment with his wife, not knowing the fate of any of their children. A quiet man, prone to inferiority. But perceptive and kind, and skilled at navigating and soothing his wife’s distress. And later, that of his son and grandson.
Lucien - Male 40-49. Irma and Adolphe’s son. Pierre’s father. A Holocaust survivor. Shattered and shell shocked by his experience in the camp, of course. But also dazed to be back in the world. Putting one foot in front of the other every day, for his son’s sake. His son is his tether to life and a future and a belief that good still exists. Stillness on the surface; tumult underneath.
Young Pierre - Male 15. Lucien’s son, who survived the Holocaust in the camp with him. Smart, but very uncertain and reticent. He has no idea how to be in the world. And how could he? Overwhelmed by the love his grandmother is desperate to shower on him, but always wants to do the right thing. Utterly reliant on his father. Plays piano.
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