Announcing auditions for
Theatre Pro Rata’s summer production Traveling Light,
by Lindsay Harris-Friel, directed by Natalie Novacek, and fall
production of The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare,
directed by Carin Bratlie.
About Traveling
Light:
It's 1967 and Brian Epstein crashes a cemetery, looking to check
in to residency. Joe Orton follows him, looking for some tail...or
to talk to Brian about the screenplay he's written for the Beatles.
(You know, whatever comes first.) They argue rewrites and ponder
the making of a man. Some clothes come off. More clothes come
off. There's a lot of scrabbling in the dark. Within weeks, both
of them would turn up dead. But they might have had this meeting,
they might have had this chance. They might each have had something
to risk and something to save.
Performance Dates:
July 2010
Rehearsal Dates:
June-July 2010, nights
and weekends, 6 days a week.
Cast:
Non AEA.
Three men, one woman.
Dialects required.
$100 stipend paid.
Cast Breakdown:
BRIAN EPSTEIN: 32-33, manager of the world’s most successful
pop band. Handsome, elegant, Jewish, secretly homosexual, secretly
addicted to uppers and downers. Speaks with a very polished,
formal upper-class accent to hide his Liverpool roots.
JOE ORTON: 32-33, a playwright who has recently become very successful.
Handsome in a rough, cute way. Openly homosexual. Speaks with
a Leicester accent, to which he has returned after learning to
speak with an upper class accent. Has a slight lisp, which he
knows men find sexy; he pronounces his “s” sounds like
a “z,” as in “easy” or “leisure.”
OFFICER FOSTER: 33-36. A Women’s Police officer. Mainly
responsible for handling prostitutes during arrest procedure.
Takes care of her mum by day. Widowed.
MACDONALD: 40, a police officer, senior to FOSTER. Loves structure,
language and the workings of the human body.
About The Taming of the Shrew:
The merchant Baptista
has two daughters, and decrees that Bianca--the younger and fairer
of the two--cannot be married before her strong-willed sister,
Katherina. The student Lucentio falls hard for Bianca, and convinces
his friend Petruchio to woo the shrew and get her out of the
way. Kate will have none of it. The battle of wits has begun.
Performance Dates:
September 11 - 26, 2010
at the Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Rehearsal Dates:
July 26 - September 5,
2010, nights and weekends, 6 days a week.
Cast:
Non AEA.
As scripted: 12 men, 3 women.
We are considering non-traditional casting.
Specific multiple casting TBD from audition pool.
$100 stipend paid.
The role of Kate has been cast.
Audition Dates:
Preliminary Auditions
– Sunday, March 21. 5:00-10:00 P.M.
The Taming of the Shrew Callbacks – Monday, March
22. 5:00-10:00 P.M.
Traveling Light Callbacks – Tuesday, March
23. 5:00-10:00 P.M.
Audition Location:
The Gremlin Theatre
2400 University Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55114
Please prepare one brief
classical monologue for The Taming of the Shrew and/or
one brief contemporary monologue for Traveling Light and
bring a headshot/resume.
Click here to schedule an audition slot.
We will e-mail you within
24 hours with an audition appointment.
Questions can be directed
to info@theatreprorata.org.
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