Franklin Stock Company
AUDITION DATE
Sat, Nov 23, 2019
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
APPOINTMENTS
Appointments: AEA members please email your name and phone number and at least 2 available 15-minute timeslots to info@franklinstagecompany.org
CONTRACT
SPT $392/wk. Contract is being negotiated for 2020-21 and rate may increase.
SEEKING
Equity actors for available roles in Good People and Rameau's Nephew.
PREPARATION
Please be familiar with the plays. Sides from each play will be provided.
Also, please remember to bring a picture and resume stapled together
LOCATION
Franklin Stage Co. Administrative Offices
574 Main Street
Franklin, NY 13775
PERSONNEL
Producing Artistic Directors: Leslie Noble and Patricia Buckley (expected in attendance at the audition)
OTHER
Show schedule: Thursdays & Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 3:00 & 7:30pm, and Sundays at 5:00pm
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of audition.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire Director TBA
1st rehearsal: June 16 Opening: July 10
Closing: July 26
Synopsis: Set in contemporary South Boston, the play follows Margie Walsh, who’s has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who's made it out of Southie might be her ticket to a fresh new start.
Seeking
MIKE: White, about 50. A fertility doctor. Margie's old high school boyfriend. Married to Kate, about 20 years his junior. Grew up in Southie, but he got out. Smart. Proud. Charming. Has grown accustomed to the comfortable life, but can summon the Southie fighter when provoked. Margie comes to him asking for a job.
STEVIE: White, 20-25. Manager of a Dollar Store, and Margie's supervisor. His boss forces him to fire Margie for being late. He’s sensitive and serious. A bit of an outcast in his Southie neighborhood. Raised in a family hit hard by poverty, prison and illness. Stevie has a stable job and has started to date a girl he likes. He’s trying to make something of himself.
KATE: African American, early 30's. Married to Michael. Sweet-natured and kind. Grew-up in a well-off family and went to good schools. She’s a professor of literature at BU. She and Mike have a young daughter. Their marriage has weathered hard times – possibly due to Mike’s infidelity. She’s made compromises for this relationship. Fiercely protective of her daughter.
The following roles have been CAST:
MARGIE: White, early 50’s. Born and bred in Boston’s “Southie” neighborhood. Recently fired from yet another low-wage job for being late and is scrambling to figure out how to make ends meet. Her tardiness is due in part to the difficulty she has finding a caregiver for her disabled adult daughter. Resourceful, a talker, proud, but also forgiving. Thinks of herself as a good person who can’t catch a break, but can’t help feeling resentful of those who have more. Afraid she’ll end up on the street. CAST.
JEANNIE: White, early 50’s. Margie’s best friend. A hard-boiled Southie woman. Profane. Funny. Confrontational. Holds grudges but is fiercely loyal to her friends. Jeannie learns Margie’s old flame, Mike, has returned to the Boston area and convinces Margie to approach him for a job. CAST.
DOTTIE: White, about 60. Margie’s landlady and “babysitter” for her disabled daughter Joyce. Dottie is eccentric, opinionated, enjoys making and selling her crafts. Regularly plays Bingo with Jeannie and Margie. They tolerate her. Comic, but steely when it comes to business. She’s found a way to make the low-income life work for her. CAST
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RAMEAU'S NEPHEW
by Shelly Berc & Andre Belgrader, adapted from Dennis Diderot
Director: Kirk Jackson
1st rehearsal: July 21 Opening: Aug 7
Closing: Aug 23
Synopsis: a philosophical dialogue, imbued with generous amounts of comedy, between an Enlightenment philosopher and a callow young man who’s recently offended his rich patron and been cut loose. Clever and timely, the play questions the usefulness of ideals, the need for art, and role status plays in all our endeavors.
THE PHILISOPHER (I): An older and presumably wiser man of letters who enjoys spirited discourse on topics of art, politics, and morality. He is equally entertained, fascinated and horrified by Rameau’s Nephew and engages him in debate.
RAMEAU'S NEPHEW: (He): An opportunist and hangar-on. Talented but “unlucky”. Charming, amoral, lazy; a sycophant and sometime pimp. Too proud to beg forgiveness of his rich patron, and too greedy to live by his convictions (if he had any) and remain poor. A “saisir-le-jour” kind of guy.
Franklin Stage Company is an equal opportunity employer.
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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 audition.
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