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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
3 PM to 7 PM
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5 minute time slots. Each member has minimum of 3 minutes to audition.
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Contract
NEAT
Category 6; Weekly AEA Salary $386
Location
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA
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Seeking
Equity actors, men and women, for various roles in this added non-musical production of the season.
see breakdown.
Preparation
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.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together
Other Dates
1st rehearsal: May 19, 2015.
Typical rehearsal schedule: Tues– Sun from 10am–6pm until tech begins.
Runs June 6, 2015 – June 21, 2015.
Wed.–Sun., with matinees and evening shows at Boston University
Other
Theatre’s mailing address: New Repertory Theatre, 200 Dexter Avenue, Watertown , MA 02472
Personnel
Artistic Director: Jim Petosa
No understudies are being cast. New Rep does not have housing for out of town actors and is therefore not able to cast outside of the Boston Metro area.
- A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
AEA members contact Bridget Kathleen O’Leary at (617) 923-7060, extension 8204 for an appointment. Office hours: Monday – Friday, 10 AM – 6 PM
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
SCENES FROM AN ADULTRY by Ronan Noone
Director Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
1st rehearsal: May 19, 2015.
Runs June 6, 2015 – June 21, 2015.
Seeking:
TONY
(40s). A milquetoast kind of guy. He will go along to get along. The kind of guy you meet at a bar, you have a nice conversation, nothing out of the ordinary, swap details on life, all quite agreeable, and in between the time you tell your wife that was a nice guy and the time you exit the bar you will probably forget you ever met him. He doesn’t mind. He seeks no attention. He goes to work. He pays the bills. He has a family. He is generally happy. I mean, it’s not something he thinks about and I think he’s afraid if he ever did. But he makes mistakes and he believes if you avoid controversy, you will be safe from scrutiny. That said, he’s not unintelligent. He protects his family from the seedier side of life, not because they don’t need to avoid as much as he wants to keep his family sweet. He values the time he can have to hang with Gasper because it, in truth, is his only outlet. He doesn’t need to share that time with his wife. It is between men. It gives him a sense of acting like a man, or at least what he expects a man should act like, and it is an antidote to the sometimes banality of the suburbs. He believes he is a gentleman, and maybe a holdover from another age. In fact his sense of prudishness might fit well with the Victorian age or the earlier part of the 20th century. But he does enjoy those conversations with Gasper.
LISA
(late 30s- early 40’s) Feisty but brittle. She has found her position in life. A mom. A working mom. A wife to a husband who provides her with what she always saw in her youth and what she wanted when she got older. She trusts Tony implicitly and puts up, like all of us do, with our partners foibles. She finds ways to counteract them by maybe drinking a little too much in frustration at her very pragmatic husband and her own repressed need to let her hair down now and again. But that’s not going to happen because she could lose it all, she thinks, in her own superstitious way, and that’s just not worth it. She’s not going to change Tony and she’s really not going to change either. But the repressed vulnerability remains at the surface, where it knows the wrong situation could tempt her. She enjoys Gasper because he is good company, her husband likes him and she likes that her husband has someone to go out with who, maybe, makes him laugh. She doesn’t interfere, but she is curious as to their conversations. Although she knows Gasper is a rascal she has no idea to what extent a rascal he maybe. With that said, she doesn’t know if she ‘d be secretly proud of him or if she’d quietly despise him. In the meantime, he makes her laugh and that’s very important.
GASPER
(40’s) Tthe rascal. He loves women. Loves himself, and gets as much joy from telling his stories as watching the shocked response from his friends. He is a cad of sorts and he will happily admit it to his male friends. He understands that, at least, and does not pretend otherwise. He lives alone. He probably drinks too much, but his looks and vibrant personality have carried him through live, and a good life it is, thus far. Although he knows the window is closing on the amount of amorous connections he can make, and maybe deep down he would like to settle down and join his friends in the suburbs. Yet, he knows that the shallow lover, good time guy, and heartbreaker is the life for him. He is creating his own myth and regardless of how debaucherous it maybe, he believes it will live after he’s gone. Of course, to live his life he has to have discretion and he only tells those he can trust, and those he can trust understand that what is said around his table stays around his table. To break that trust means ultimate expulsion. He relies on his stand up guy nature with women, who believe that what happens with him remains with him. If he was found out it would lead to his ostracization from the player society. It’s alright to be known as a player by all and sundry, but it’s not alright to be known as a player who blabs arrogantly about conquests or otherwise. That’s simply gauche. The reason we should be able to like Gasper, until we don’t like him, is because he isn’t arrogant and he’s kinda surprised at his own good fortune.
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