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As usual I am here to help, so here is a casting call you should action asap if you are interested!
NIDA graduating directors are interested in meeting actors who would be interested in volunteering to perform in their graduation plays at NIDA in Nov/Dec 2011.
Following the success of the tour to Melbourne this year, all the plays will also tour in 2012 to either Melbourne or Albury in February/March.
NIDA/ Albury Season-
Frenzy for Two, Eugene Ionesco
Push Up, Roland Schimmelpfennig
The Collection, Harold Pinter
Frenzy for Two, Eugene Ionesco
Push Up, Roland Schimmelpfennig
The Collection, Harold Pinter
NIDA/Melbourne Season-
Electronic City, Falk Richter
Howl, Alan Ginsberg
Thirst, Eugene O’Neil
Electronic City, Falk Richter
Howl, Alan Ginsberg
Thirst, Eugene O’Neil
Details of the plays and roles are attached, along with further information on the final page about key dates and the 2012 tours. If you are interested in being considered, please return your preferences, bio/CV and contact details to lisa.burns@nida.edu.au as soon as possible. The directors will then be in touch with audition information where suitable.
Please feel free to contact me with any queries on (02) 96977608. Please note, these roles are unpaid, however expenses on tour in 2012 are covered by NIDA.
Kind Regards,
Lisa Burns
Postgraduate Courses and Projects Coordinator
Lisa Burns
Postgraduate Courses and Projects Coordinator
GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF DRAMATIC ART
DIRECTING COURSE
2011
GRAD SHOW CASTING CALL
Private View (dir. Jeffrey Jay Fowler) Directors Graduation Productions 2010
Toured to Theatre Works, Melbourne March 2011
PARADE SPACE PROGRAM
Howl by Alan Ginsberg
Director: Daniel Lammin (pictured)
Designer: Ruth Arnold
Dramaturg: Jack Richardson
Mentor: Sam Strong
Outline: A classic text of the Beat Generation, Howl will be a performance of the poem
as a 1-man monologue. An explosion of words and ideas on masculinity, social injustice,
and the voice of a young man struggling to find his place in the world. Rhythmic, gutsy,
unapologetic and not a typical theatrical experience.
Casting:
1M: mid- to late-20s, a disillusioned everyman, American accent
Electronic City by Falk Richter
Director: Felicity Nicol (pictured)
Designers: Ally Mansell (set) &
Genevieve Shrayer (costumes)
Dramaturg: Jane Bodie
Mentor: Simon Stone
Outline: Year? Unknown. Place? Anywhere. People? Lost. Explores our relationship with
the world, where time moves faster, people/places into the indistinguishable and reality is
a shifting quicksand. Non-specific 21stC space. An in between space (eg an airport,
limbo, waiting room.).
Casting:
Tom: (20s-30s) Modern businessman, lost/confused, spinning out of control.
Joy: (20s) Modern temp worker, lost, daydreamer, lonely.
Chorus (between 5-15 people): Businessmen, movie executives, commentators, narrators,
provocators and audience. Bleeding between one to the other in an instant.
NB – The text is a dense, unstoppable avalanche. Interest in language and physical
expression is important.
Thirst by Eugene O’Neill
Director: Dominic Mercer (pictured)
Designer: Katren Wood
Dramaturg: Jono Burns
Mentor: Robyn Nevin
Outline: Three characters; a gentleman, a coloured sailor and a dancer, are stuck on a
lifeboat. They have run out of food and water and don’t know how they will survive. Short,
punchy piece about how far people are willing to go to survive when resources become
scarce.
Casting: 2M 1F
Gentleman - Male, 20s/30s. A first class passenger. Well-spoken, refined, rakish Caucasian.
Sailor – Male, mid to late 20s. A regular crewman. Well-built, powerful, dangerous,
coloured. Can sing.
Dancer – Woman, early to mid 20s. A beautiful dancer. Attractive, impulsive, fragile,
Caucasian. Can dance.
PARADE STUDIO PROGRAM
Frenzy for Two by Eugene Ionesco
Director: Rachel Baring (pictured)
Designer: Lauren O’Flaherty
Dramaturg: Melissa Lee Speyer
Mentor: Tom Wright
Outline: What do you do when a war is raging, when bombs are literally tearing down the
walls around you and soldiers are abducting your neighbours? You argue if a tortoise and
a snail are the same thing. An absurd comedy.
Casting: 3M, 2F
He: 30 – 45, divorced, has been in a relationship with She for 17 years, intelligent, practical
and feisty.
She: 30 – 45, left her husband for He, fierce, quick witted, attractive.
Soldier: 16 – 25 friendly (will be used physically throughout)
Neighbor: 20 – 30, newly married, excitable (will be used physically throughout)
Neighbor’s Wife: 20 – 30 newly married, excitable (will be used physically throughout)
The Collection by Harold Pinter
Director: Mackenzie Steele (pictured)
Designer: Jessica O’Neill
Dramaturg: Hannah Malarski
Mentor: Richard Cottrell
Outline: In upper middle-class London in 1961, an alleged affair
between two dress designers leads to confrontation and retaliation. We need to be
simultaneously aware of the interior of both well-to-do households, which leaves the
design open to being staged realistically or abstractly.
Casting: 3M, 1F
Bill (M) – 20′s, upcoming fashion designer, cheeky, good-looking,
British accent
Harry (M) – 30′s-40′s, distinguished, socialite, stoic, British accent James (M) – mid-20′s-30′s,
fashion designer, headstrong, dangerous,
British accent
Stella (F) – mid-20′s-30′s, fashion designer, detached, enigmatic, independent, British
accent.
Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Director: Renato Fabretti (pictured)
Designer: Jenny Shepherd
Dramaturg: Micharne Cloughley
Mentor: TBC
Outline: This piece looks directly to the personal and the intimate within
the high-rise business sector. Aka, the power and the frailty of kings.
Casting: 2M, 4F
Sabine (20-30) – Up-and-coming Advertising Executive, sharp, business, solitary but
ambitious.
Angelika (25-40) – Successful Company Director, married, unsure, fears her prime slipping,
strategic yet impulsive.
Robert (25-40) – somewhere between George Clooney in Michael Criton or James
MacEvoy in Wanted. Business is not everything to him, but he’s good at it. Proud.
Patrizia (20-35) – the sharpest new talent, brilliant, but exposed. She knows her work and
stands by it, but is this what’s most important to her?
Heinrich (18-40) – a cleaner, with Maria, who looks at the company with practical eyes,
grounded, charming, rough.
Maria (18-40) – a cleaner, with Heinrich, who looks at the company with romantic eyes,
sweet, cheeky, simple, kind. (think a young Miriam Margoyles)
Mon 7th November Rehearsals Commence (M-F 10am-6pm)
Mon 21st November Tech Commences
Tues 29th November Open Dress
Wed 30th Nov- Sat 3rd Dec Season
This year, the six shows have also been programmed to tour in March 2012 to Theatre
Works, Melbourne & HotHouse Theatre, Albury. The touring dates are:
26th Feb-4th March Albury
The Collector, Frenzy for Two, Push Up
4th -11th March Melbourne
Thirst, Electronic City, Howl
If you are interested in auditioning for one or more of these productions please send your
preferences along with a current CV to lisa.burns@nida.edu.au or via post:
Lisa Burns
Postgraduate Course Coordinator
NIDA
UNSW, Sydney
NSW 2052
Ph: (02) 96977608
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