RACE - Equity Principal Auditions in CT
TheaterWorks Hartford CT SPT $571/week minimum.
Artistic Dir: Steve Campo
Writer: David Mamet
Dir: Tazewell Thompson
CD: Pat McCorkle
Casting Assocs: Joe Lopick, Carter Niles
1st reh: 5/10/11. Runs 6/3-7/10.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Friday, March 25, 2011 TheaterWorks
11 AM – 3 PM 233 Pearl Street, 3rd Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
No appointment necessary. The producer will run all aspects of this call. Equity audition procedures will NOT be in effect, and no Equity Monitor will be provided.
Sides will be provided at the audition (actors are strongly advised to read the play prior to auditions). Sides will also be posted at
http://www.theaterworkshartford.org/auditions.html. Visually-impaired performers with no Internet access may request an advance copy of sides by calling 860/527-7838.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Seeking (All roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted)):
Charles:
Caucasian, 30s-40s. Rich, famous. Smooth. Arrogant, indignant, shrewdly evasive, subtly manipulative. Strong sense of self-preservation. Cunningly plays the martyr, turning victimhood on its head.
Henry:
African American, 30s-40s. Fluent, sharp, shrewd attorney defending Charles. Blunt, pragmatic, cynical, jaded, world-weary. Simultaneously offensive and defensive about race, a card he is all too willing and expert at turning on its head. Intuits an automatic distrust of Susan, the African American lawyer recently hired to give a female face to the defense of Charles.
Jack:
Caucasian, 30s-40s. Razor-sharp legal mind also defending Charles. Also, jaded, cynical, on the make, contemptuous of humanity, with a legal predator’s eye and ear for both his opponent’s and his client’s Achilles heel. Refusing the advice of his partner Henry about Susan, he is unusually protective of her, revealing his own possible personal conflict/guilt with race -- an observation the savvy Charles perceptively analyzes and utilizes in his bantering dialogue with him.
Susan:
African American, 20s. New recruit to Charles’s defense team. Idealistic. Deceptively naïve. Gender and racial activism conveniently disguised, she will surprise as a bold and explosive manipulator.
Theatre’s statement: “We consider actors of all races and ethnicities.”
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