New Repertory Theatre 2012-13 Dramas
– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in MA
Watertown MA NEAT (salary level pending; currently $357/week minimum).
Artistic Dir: Jim Petosa.
Shows run W–Su (matinees and evening) at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA,
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Monday, March 5, 2012 Arsenal Center for the Arts
9 AM – 5 PM 321 Arsenal Street
Lunch from 12:30 – 1:30. Watertown MA 02472
For an appointment, call Bridget Kathleen O’Leary at 617/923-7060, x204 (M–F, 10–6) or e-mail
auditions@newrep.org. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition day as time permits.
Five-minute appointments. Each Equity Member has a minimum of three minutes to audition. Please prepare material of your choice (including, if you wish, selections from the season’s repertoire). For those who wish to perform a scene, a reader will be available. Please be prepared to state your starting and stopping places. Scripts are available at StageSource, 88 Tremont St., Boston.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled back-to-back.
Attending StageSource Combined Auditions / Equity Day:
Monday, April 9, 2012 Boston Center for the Arts / Calderwood Pavilion
10 AM – 5 PM 539 Tremont Street
Boston MA 02116
For audition-participation information, visit
www.stagesource.org or call 617/720-6066. Equity Members have three minutes to audition.
All roles are available unless otherwise specified. For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary. No understudies are being cast.
Mainstage:
THE KITE RUNNER From the novel by Khaled Hosseini. Adaptation: Matthew Spangler. Dir: Elaine Vaan Hogue. 1st reh: 8/21/12. Runs 9/9–30. May extend to 10/7.
Performers play many ensemble roles (Soviet soldiers, Refugees, Taliban Soldiers, etc.). Seeking actors of various ethnicities and types.
Young Amir:
Seeking actor 18+ to play a 12-year-old-boy. Young Amir is the son of a wealthy Pashtun businessman. Bookish. Anxious for his father’s approval. Full of adventure. Close friends with Hassan, but with a privileged attitude.
Hassan / Sohrab:
Seeking actor 18+ to play 12-year-old boys. Hassan: An Afghan Hazara. Young Amir’s servant, destined by his race to a life of submission, but unburdened by this understanding. Eager and adventurous, and fiercely loyal to Young Amir. Sohrab: Hassan’s orphaned son. Raised in war-torn orphanages in Taliban-controlled Kabul. Broken-spirited as a result of his wrecked upbringing.
Baba:
Man, 40s-50s. Pashtun businessman, one of the wealthiest in Kabul. Father to Amir. Highly modern in his outlook, with a strong ethical core, but dismayed that Amir has not inherited his assertiveness and confident sense of purpose.
Ali:
Man, 40s. Hazara. Baba’s servant. Hassan’s father. Lost the use of his leg to polio. Dutiful servant, but reserved and unprepossessing.
Rahim Khan:
Man, 40s-50s. Pashtun. One of Baba’s business partners. Patient and fatherly toward Amir.
Assef:
Seeking actor 18+ (plays a 12-year-old boy in Act I and an adult man in Act II). Pashtun. Obsessed with racial purity. Brutal, malevolent and assured in his sense of power.
General Taheri:
Man, 50s. Pashtun. Afghan general now living in America. Highly traditional, and concerned with personal and family honor.
Soraya:
Woman, 20s-30s. General Taheri’s daughter. More Americanized and modern in outlook than her father, but still deeply embedded in the Afghan community. Thoughtful and moral. Amir’s eventual wife.
Ensemble:
Two men and one woman. Play many ensemble characters.
Amir:
CAST. Man, 40s. Afghan Pashtun who spent his childhood in Kabul and adulthood in San Francisco. A writer. Intelligent and driven, but insecure with people. Haunted by his betrayal of his friend and servant Hassan when they were children.
RACE by David Mamet. Dir: Robert Walsh. 1st reh: 9/25/12. Runs 10/14–11/4.
Henry Brown:
African American, 40s. Lawyer. Jack’s partner. Blunt and pragmatic, with few scruples about his profession.
Jack Lawson:
Caucasian, 40s. Lawyer. Henry’s partner. Callous and self-interested.
Charles Strickland:
Caucasian, 40s. Wealthy. Accused of raping a young African American woman. Used to command and respect, but dazed by his new notoriety. Contrite in a self-serving way.
Susan:
African American, 20s. Law clerk or aide under Henry and Jack. Proud, confident and righteous. Not as amoral about the law as her employers, but with few illusions about the system.
HOLIDAY MEMORIES From stories by Truman Capote. Adaptation: Russell Vandenbroucke. Dir TBD. 1st reh: 11/16/12. Runs 12/9-23.
Truman:
Man, 40s. The adult narrator. While he does represent Truman Capote, he is not the focus of the play, and too much construction of the familiar “Capote” character would be a distraction. A slight Southern accent, and a mature and reflective voice.
Buddy:
Seeking actor 18+ to play a 7-year-old boy. Buddy is a seven-year-old Truman. Serves as both narrator alongside Truman and protagonist alongside the other performers. More inquisitive and impulsive than his adult counterpart, and with a richer accent.
Odd Henderson / Haha Jones / Others:
Multi-character track (males; track age 20s-40s). Odd: 12-year-old bully. Haha: Whiskey trader. Actor plays numerous other roles, small and large.
Mary Taylor Wheelwright / Annabel Conklin / Others:
Multi-character track (females; track age 20s-40s). Mary: Buddy’s vain centenarian relative. Annabell: Young, enchanting cousin. Actor plays numerous other roles, small and large.
Miss Sook Falk:
CAST. 60s. Buddy’s elderly cousin, caregiver and best friend. Sage though undereducated, shy yet warm, with a deep Southern piety.
MASTER CLASS by Terrence McNally. Dir: Antonio Ocampo-Guzman. 1st reh: 3/12/13. Runs 3/31-4/21/13.
Manny:
30s-40s. The accompanist. Excellent piano player. Good-natured.
Sophie:
20s. Advanced opera student. Overwhelmed by Maria’s instruction, but optimistic about its value. Lyric soprano.
Stagehand:
Man, 20s. Efficient worker with a snarky attitude.
Sharon:
20s. Advanced opera student. Thin-skinned. Unreceptive to Maria’s instruction. Lyric spinto soprano.
Tony:
20s. Advanced opera student. Accomplished, confident and determined. Lyric spinto tenor.
Maria Callas:
CAST. Greek American, 50s. The renowned opera diva, now aging and with a ruined voice. Imperious and harsh – but not unfeeling – toward her students.
AMADEUS by Peter Shaffer. Dir: Jim Petosa. 1st reh: 4/9/13. Runs 4/28–5/19/13. May extend to 5/26/13.
Antonio Salieri:
In his prime. Italian. Catholic. Prominent composer in the Viennese court. Austere, disciplined and diplomatic. Consumed with envy of Mozart’s genius and repulsion at his character. As narrator, sinister and conspiratorial, yet frank and confessional.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
20s. Musical prodigy since early childhood, and unequaled in invention and imagination among the composers of his age. Stunted emotionally as a result of his whirligig childhood and his father’s obsessive governance of his talents. Crude, impulsive and immoderate in all arenas, yet quick to affection when pleased. Sharply aware of his superiority to his contemporaries.
Constanze Weber:
20s. Wife to Mozart. Middle-class daughter of a landlady. Like Mozart, often vulgar and ill-at-ease among the court, but with a more grounded sense of propriety and pragmatism. Loving and devoted wife despite having no illusions about her husband’s flaws and infidelities.
Joseph II:
40s. Hapsburg emperor. Keen patron of the arts, though not an especially knowledgeable one. Eager to promote German music. Decisive but easily befuddled.
Von Strack:
Mature man. Royal chamberlain. Stuffy and officious.
Rosenberg:
Mature man. Director of the Opera. Scheming and controlling.
Van Swieten:
Mature man. Prefect of the Imperial Library. Humorless and reactionary.
Two “Venticelli”:
Men, indeterminate age. Consummate gossips.
Major Domo:
Man, 30s. Servant in an aristocratic household.
Valet and Cook:
Men, 30s. Servants in Salieri’s household. Silent parts.
Teresa Salieri:
30s. Salieri’s wife. Silent part.
Katherina Cavalieri:
20s. Salieri’s pupil. Silent part.
Giuseppe Bonno:
60s-70s. Aging kapellmeister. Silent part.
Black Box:
CHESAPEAKE by Lee Blessing. Dir: Doug Lockwood. 1st reh: 11/13/12. Runs 11/25–12/16.
Kerr:
Woman, 30s-40s. Bisexual New York performance artist from a Southern background, who is reincarnated as a Chesapeake retriever. Confident, passionate, zealous, given to grand ideas and constantly in over her head. Also assumes, at various times, the roles of Therm Pooley, a populist Southern senator, and Pooley’s stern wife and young, fawning aide.
FULLY COMMITTED by Stephen Sachs. Dir: Bridget Kathleen O’Leary. 1st reh: 12/11/12. Runs 12/19–30.
Sam:
CAST. Man, 30s. Young actor in New York City, working as the reservationist at an upscale restaurant while striving to get his acting career off the ground. In the course of the play, Sam will cycle rapidly among forty different roles of all descriptions as he fields calls from various socialites, secretaries, friends, family and coworkers.
LUNGS by Duncan Macmillan. Dir: Bridget Kathleen O’Leary. 1st reh: 2/1/13. Runs 2/17–3/10/13.
M:
Man, 30s. One half of a thoroughly modern and socially conscious young couple, wrestling with the idea of parenthood in a broken world. Somewhat directionless and un-introspective, he relies on W to give him a sense of purpose and value.
W:
Woman, 30s. One half of a thoroughly modern and socially conscious young couple, wrestling with the idea of parenthood in a broken world. At once overly analytical and overly emotional, she relies on M to give her a sense of balance and proportion.
Theatre’s mailing address: New Repertory Theatre, 200 Dexter Avenue, Watertown , MA 02472
Theatre states that the Arsenal Center is accessible by major routes and the #70 bus.
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