PROMETHEUS BOUND Equity Principal Auditions - CalArts Center for New Performance Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Lunch is from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Contract
URTA
URTA minimum $576/wk

Location
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

Seeking
Male actor, 40-50, for the role of Okeanos

Preparation
Sides will be provided before audition

Other Dates
Rehearsal week is Monday-Saturday. Rehearsal for Okeanos begins on August 5. Contract runs through September 28.

Other
Choreography by Mira Kingsley
Composed by Vinny Golia and Ellen Reid


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Personnel
Director, Travis Preston
Assistant director, Rachel Park
Translation by Joel Agee from Aeschylus

· EPA Rules are in effect.

· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Appointments
Please email
theater@calarts.edu and include contact information; we will call you back to set a time. For questions, call
661/253-7853, Mon-Thurs

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

OKEANOS -- Okeanos is, like Prometheus, a titan. Once Prometheus is bound at Zeus' command, Ocean arrives and announces his intention to to to Zeus and plead on Prometheus' behalf. But Prometheus with proud disdain warns him that the plan will only bring Zeus's wrath down on Oceaknos, so the sea god does not go. He exits, but to return home rather than go to Olympus

Know yourself, and be willing to meet
what is new, for a new master rules the gods now.
You brandish words like whetted swords,
sharpened by anger. If Zeus on his high throne
of majesty should hear them, your present agonies
will seem like child’s play. Poor, suffering wretch,
give up this wrath of yours and find a way
to end your agony. My words may sound
old-fashioned to you, but these are the wages
for too insolent a tongue. Humility, just
a small touch of it, would serve you well, Prometheus.
You do not bend, do not avoid disaster, indeed draw down
upon yourself more troubles than you have.