THE ORESTEIA - NYC Appointments
Shakespeare Theatre Company
APPOINTMENTS
Appointment Auditions in New York, NY begin August 27, 2018
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT B+ Contract (weekly minimum $1033)
SEEKING
Submissions from AEA actors for various roles in this World Premiere Production.
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, email picture and resume ASAP to: telseyplayscasting@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions 8/24/18
Deadline: Fri, Aug 24, 2018
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Michael Kahn
Director: Michael Kahn
Playwright: Ellen McLaughlin
Casting: Telsey + Co
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal Monday, March 11, 2019
Tech begins Tuesday, April 23, 2019
1st Preview Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Opening Monday, May 6, 2019
Closing Sunday, June 2, 2019
Extension Close Sunday, June 9, 2019
in Sidney Harman Hall
OTHER
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Seeking all ethnicities/abilities for all roles. Some previous classical work/training preferred.
All chorus members play individual roles outside of the chorus, and also work as an ensemble to help tell the story and generate the world of the play.
CLYTEMNESTRA / and As Cast:
Female, 30s to 40s. A queen. Used to being the most intelligent person in any company, she can be impatient with irrationality and ruthless with the weak or doubt-ridden. But she is also capable of tenderness and passion. Once she decides on a course of action, she is unstoppable. She is impossible for most people to read if she wants to be, and for the most part, that’s how she likes it.
IPHIGENIA / and As Cast:
Female, to play 10. A princess. Insightful, bright, and somehow special. She is haunted by her dreams because she doesn’t know why she knows what she knows.
AGAMEMNON / And As Cast:
Male, 40s to 50s. A king and the general of the Greek forces against Troy. The size of his part in history is greater than he would have wished. In the beginning, he is oppressed by a sense of responsibility–a fear of mishandling forces he doesn’t understand. He returns from the war changed. Under the swagger of the conqueror are shadows of shame and guilt. He now knows he is capable of what he would have once thought was unthinkable brutality. Vital, compelling, a leader in spite of himself.
ORESTES / And As Cast:
Male, 20s to 30s. A prince. He has lived in exile since childhood and has a damaged, alien quality, a dark intelligence. He does not wish to be a tragic hero, and would refuse his identity if he could. He has never felt in control of his fate and longs for invisibility.
CASSANDRA / And As Cast:
Female, 20s to 30s. A former princess of Troy. Now that her country has been destroyed, Agamemnon has brought her to the House of Atreus as his concubine—the human spoils of war. But, far from being cowed, she terrifies those around her. Cursed by Apollo, she is his unwilling priestess and prophetess. She sees everyone’s fate, including her own, and speaks truths that no one wants to hear. When visions of the future come, they consume and disorient her and are always unwelcome.
ELECTRA / And As Cast:
Female, 20s to 30s. A princess, yet she lives like a household servant. Most of her life has been spent circling her mother in an obsessive hatred that might be confused with obsessive love. She has a kind of creature energy, and is watching, wary, sly, and quick.
CHORUS A / WATCHMAN / And As Cast:
Male, 40s – 50s. Earthy, folk wise, trustworthy.
CHORUS B / APOLLO / And As Cast:
Male, 30s to 50s. Cool, slightly otherworldly, compelling.
CHORUS C / ATHENA / And As Cast:
Female, 30s to 50s. Reasoned, questioning, just.
CHORUS D / And As Cast:
Female, 30s to 50s. Fierce, frightening, decisive—allied with Clytemnestra.
CHORUS F / NURSE / And As Cast:
Female, 50s to 80s. Older, ironic, cool.
CHORUS G / And As Cast:
Female, 50s to 80s. Motherly, capable, warm.
CHORUS H / And As Cast:
Female, 50s to 70s. An unpredictable, ancient soul, powerful.
CHORUS I / And As Cast:
Female, Teens to 30s. Young, questioning, impulsive, ultimately just.
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 submit.
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