PERICLES - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Target Margin Theater, Inc.
CONTRACT
LOA-NYC
Salary TBD (will be an increase from 2022 minimum, which was $600/week)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in PERICLES (see breakdown).
All stage manager positions have been filled.
Target Margin Theater is aggressively inclusive. We are especially committed to a diverse cast. Actors of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, ages, and physical abilities – and identities beyond what we know today! – are strongly encouraged to audition. Experience with classical drama is helpful. We are an experimental theater company and actors must be comfortable with unorthodox approaches and unusual treatment of text. We seek actors who are comfortable trying things without knowing why.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare and record a brief (not more than two minutes) monologue from any play by Shakespeare. Please be comfortable with the language and confident in using it. Submit your headshot, resume, and link to your audition video for us to view (not download). Deadline 6 pm ET on August 26.
Deadline: Fri, Aug 26, 2022
SUBMIT TO
targetmargintheater@gmail.com
PERSONNEL
Director: David Herskovits
Design Team: Ebony Burton, Dina El-Aziz
Artistic Producer: Adam M. Kassim
Viewing auditions:
David Herskovits, Artistic Director
Adam M. Kassim, Artistic Producer
BREAKDOWN
Our Production of PERICLES takes a new look at an old play about healing. With a small cast of five, we aim to create a world of storytelling wonder and intimacy that reflects this fabulous text. The composition of this play is generally agreed to be shared by Shakespeare and at least one other writer, and the action travels over land and sea, across ages and lands, through endlessly surprising events. It is tonally comic and tragic, melancholy, troubling, and ultimately affirming of us all.
We are seeking three actors (any gender) to join our principal ensemble. All Actors will shift and share roles often. Our process is collaborative and experimental and much of how we present the play will be developed in rehearsal by the group. See below for representative character breakdowns.
Please note that these roles are open to actors of any identity whatsoever. Though the characters are traditionally gendered, our production of this play will treat all roles as available to any of the humans in the production.
REPRESENTATIVE ACTOR TRACKS (note that these will evolve in our development process):
Track 1: Thaisa and others.
Track 2: Marina and others.
Track 3: Lysimachus and others.
Track 4 [CAST]: Pericles and others
Track 5 [CAST]: Dionyza and others
CHARACTERS (note that these will evolve in our development process):
Thaisa: Thaisa is the wife of Pericles, the person who appears to be dead and yet is miraculously reborn and restored to family.
Marina: Marina is smart, resourceful, and responds with energy to endlessly difficult surprises and threats. This is a person who somehow always finds a way. The child of Pericles and Thaisa, could Marina be wiser than they are?
Lysimachus: Lysimachus is the mysterious governor of Mytilene; Lysimachus takes questionable actions and their motives are obscure. It is challenging to evaluate how we should respond to this person. Good? Bad? Perhaps Lysimachus changes or discovers new things during the action.
Pericles [CAST]: the Prince of Tyre. Pericles is young at the beginning of the story; he travels, suffers, succeeds and fails, and at the end after many years he is much changed.
Dionyza [CAST]: wife of the Governor of Tarsus. Dionyza runs the household and all around it; a complicated figure who is not nice, Dionyza acts out of love for purposes she believes are best.
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: January 23, 2023
Open: TBD Runs through April 2, 2023
OTHER
We are seeking a fully vaccinated ensemble. Actors must be fully vaccinated prior to first rehearsal.
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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