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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by appointment
Monday, April 22, 2012 and
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4 PM to 8 PM each day
(AEA Appointments will be scheduled in 5-minute slots)
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Contract
NEAT
category 6 (last year's salary was $401/week)
Location
Arts at the Armory Building
191 Highland Ave
2nd Floor
Sommerville, MA
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Seeking
Equity actors (men/women) for the 2013-14 season.
See breakdown for details.
Preparation
See breakdown for full preparation instructions
Other Dates
Typical Rehearsal Schedule: Tues-Friday evenings and Saturday & Sunday days
Other
AEA members without appointments will be seen as time permits
Personnel
Artistic Director: Allyn Burrows
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Contact Adele Nadine Traub, Manager of Artistic Operations at either
adele@actorsshakespeareproject.org or 617-776-2200 x230 (email preferred)
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Preparation Instructions
Please prepare material of your choice (including, if you wish, selections from the season - scripts are available at the Stagesource offices). For those who wish to perform a scene, a reader will be available. Please be prepared to state your starting & stopping places. Please note, if you would like to read a scene from The Cherry Orchard with our reader, we will be using the Paul Schmidt translation for the auditions.
Note: No understudies are being cast. All roles are available for non-traditional casting. Please note that ASP does not supply housing. Actors must have Boston area housing in order to work with ASP. Available roles listed below
2013-14 Season:
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Allyn Burrows and Bobbie Steinbach
First Rehearsal - 9/3/13; 1st Preview 10/2/13; Opens 10/5/13; Closes 11/3/13
Performances generally run Thursday-Sunday with several student matinees
Juliet - daughter of Capulet and in love with Romeo (age 17-25)
Romeo - son of Montague and in love with Juliet (age 17-25)
Escalus - prince of Verona
Paris - a young nobleman, betrothed to Juliet
Lady Montague - wife to Montague and mother of Romeo
Lady Capulet - wife to Capulet and mother of Juliet
Nurse to Juliet
Lord Montague - at war with Capulet
Lord Capulet - at war with Montague
Mercutio - kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo
Benvolio - nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo
Tybalt - nephew to Lady Capulet
Friar Laurence, Friar John, Franciscans
Balthasar - servant to Romeo
Sampson, Gregory, servants to Capulet
Peter - servant to Juliet's nurse
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Henry VIII
by William Shakespeare
directed by Tina Packer
11/12 - First rehearsal 11/12/13, First preview 12/11/13, Opening 12/14/13, Closing 1/5/14
Performances generally run Thursday-Sunday with several student matinees
King Henry the Eighth
Queen Katherine - Wife to King Henry
Anne Bullen - Katherine's Maid of Honour; afterwards Queen
Cardinal Wolsey - King Henry's right hand man
Capucius - Ambassador from the Emperor Charles the Fifth
Cranmer - Archbishop of Canterbury, spreading rumors about the king
Duke of Norfolk - scheming against Wolsey
Duke of Suffolk
Duke of Buckingham - hates Cardinal Wolsey
Earl of Surrey
Gardiner - Bishop of Winchester
Lord Abergavenny
Lord Sands
Sir Thomas LovelI
Sir Nicholas VauxI
Cromwell, Servant to Wolsey
Doctor Butts, Physician to the King
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov, directed by Melia Bensussen
First rehearsal 1/14/14, First preview 2/12/14, Opening 2/15/14, Closing 3/9/14
Performances generally run Thursday-Sunday with several student matinees
Liubov Ranyevskaya - a middle-aged Russian woman, the owner of the estate and the cherry orchard, in financial difficulties
Yermolay Lopakhin - A businessman, and the son of peasants on Ranyevskaya's estate.
Leonid Gayev - Ranyevskaya's brother
Varya - Ranyevskaya's adopted daughter, in love with Lopakhin
Anya - Ranyevskaya's biological daughter, 17 years old, has lived a sheltered life
Peter Trofimov - A student at the local university, knows Ranevsky from tutoring her son Grisha before he died
Boris Simeonov-Pischik - A nobleman, and fellow landowner, who is, like Ranyevskaya, in financial difficulties
Charlotte - Anya's governess, a former performing clown
Firs - Ranyevskaya's eighty seven year-old manservant
Simon Yephikodov - a clerk at the Ranyevskaya estate
Yasha - a young manservant
Dunyasha - A maid on the Ranyevskaya estate
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As you Like It
by William Shakespeare
directed by Robert Walsh
3/18 - First rehearsal 3/18/14, First preview 4/16/14, Opening 4/19/14, Closing 5/18/14
Performances generally run Thursday-Sunday with several student matinees
Rosalind - daughter of Duke Senior, later disguised as the boy Ganymede
Orlando - youngest son of Sir Roland de Bois and younger brother of Oliver
Duke Senior - father of Rosalind and rightful ruler
Jaques - a faithful lord to Duke Senior
Celia - daughter of Duke Frederick and Rosalind's dearest friend
Duke Frederick - brother of Duke Senior and usurper of the throne
Touchstone - a clown in Duke Frederick's court who accompanies Rosalind into the forest of Arden when she is exiled
Oliver - oldest son of Sire Roland de Bois
Silvius - a young shepherd hopelessly in love with Phoebe
Phoebe - a young shepherdess who disdains Silvius and falls in love with Ganymede
Charles - a professional wrestler in Duke Frederick's court
Audrey - a simpleminded goatherd who agrees to marry Touchstone
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