DYING CITY
– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in ME
Opera House Arts Stonington ME SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2010 minimum weekly salary: $257).
Artistic Dir: Judith Jerome
Author: Christopher Shinn
Dir: Peter Richards
1st reh: 1/10/11. Runs 2/3-2/6 and 2/10-2/13.
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Monday, November 1, 2010 Stonington Opera House
10 AM - 6 PM 1 Opera House Lane
Lunch from 12 – 1. Stonington ME 04681
Enter at green room door, on School Street.
For an appointment, call 207/367-2788 (M-F, 10-6). Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition day, as time permits.
Please prepare two contrasting 2-minute contemporary dramatic monologues.
Please bring a resume & a picture (of yourself), stapled back-to-back.
Subtle, nuanced play. A year after her husband's death in Iraq, Kelly, a young therapist, confronts his identical twin brother, who shows up at her apartment unannounced.
Director's statement: “DYING CITY touches on both the political and the personal; it is a play about a society at war and it is a play about the hidden violence that can pervade our most intimate relationships.”
Seeking (both roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted)):
Kelly:
Woman, late 20s, early 30s. Therapist. Sensitive. Craig’s widow.
Craig / Peter:
Two roles (twin brothers) played by the same actor. Both late 20s, early 30s. Craig: Harvard graduate. Reserved. American soldier, deployed to Iraq. Peter: Successful actor. Talkative.
Theatre’s statement: “Either or both roles open to all races and ethnicities. Both roles suitable for non-traditional casting.”
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