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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
2:30PM-6:30PM
Sign-up begins at 2:00PM
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Contract
Bay Area Theatre
BAT Tier 3 Minimum - $465/wk
Location
San Jose Stage Company
490 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
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Seeking
Equity and non-equity actors for San Jose Stage Company's production of VALLEY OF THE HEART.
Preparation
Please prepare a 2 minute monologue. Actors may be asked to cold-read selections from the script.
Other Dates
First rehearsal: January 12th, 2016
First preview: February 10th, 2016
Official Opening: February 13th, 2016
Closing: February 28th, 2016 (with possible extension)
Other
www.thestage.org
Always bring your Equity Membership card.
Personnel
Artistic Director: Randall King
Director: Luis Valdez
Assistant Director: Marilyn Abad- Cardinalli
Producer: Phil Esparza
Casting Director: Allison Rich
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Sign ups to audition will be begin at 2:00 pm. Please email the casting director Allison Rich with any questions at
allisonfrich@live.com.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
The following roles need to be cast:
Calvin Sakamoto, Second generation “Nisei” Japanese-¬American Male, 22, is Thelma’s suitor via an arranged marriage by Thelma’s parents. He is college-¬educated and head strong with a very prideful nature. He is funny and charismatic and goes through a profound change in the internment camps when his strength of character shows.
Joe Yamaguchi, Joe Yamaguchi: Second generation “Nisei” Japanese-¬American Male, 21, he is Ichiro and Hana’s son, going to college but still tied to his family and their life on the ranch. He is thoughtful and feels the tension the war brings when his beliefs and patriotism are challenged by internment.
VALLEY OF THE HEART is a “memory play” about the interaction of two families, the Yamaguchi’s who own a small ranch and the Montaño’s who are sharecroppers, in the Valley of the Hearts Delight straddling the western foothills of the Santa Clara Valley. Told before and during World War II, the focus is on the love story and ultimate survival of THELMA and BENJAMIN, and the birth of their son in the Heart Mountain Internment camp in Wyoming.
Since its inception, El Teatro Campesino has set the standard for Latino theatrical production in the United States. It was founded in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines of Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers Union creating “actos” performed on flatbed trucks and in union halls, becoming a multi-award winning company including an Obie Award for “demonstrating the politics of survival,” and toured internationally. El Teatro Campesino seeks to create popular art for the 21st century that presents a more just and accurate account of human history.
SETTING:
ACT ONE, Northern California, 1941.
The Yamaguchi Farm, a small ranch straddling the western foothills of the Santa Clara Valley. To the immediate north and south of the ranch are twenty acres of row crops; strawberries in the summer, broccoli and spinach in the winter. On the foothills rising dramatically behind the ranch is a cherry orchard.
ACT TWO:
HEART MOUNTAIN, Wyoming, 1942?45. One of ten WWII concentration camps for Japanese Americans. ALSO: The Yamaguchi Farm, 1942?47.
THE STORY: the interaction of two families, the YAMAGUCHI’s and the MONTANO’s, sharecropping in the Valley of the Hearts Delight, before and during World War II.
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