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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt"><b>REMINDER!! Auditions
September 5<sup>th</sup> & 6<sup>th</sup> 7-9pm</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Theater Voices will hold
auditions for a staged reading of THE VANEK PLAYS: Three One-Acts by Vaclav
Havel, directed by Mark Dalton</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner of West
Lawrence Street.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Times</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Wednesday, September 5th, 7-9pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Thursday, September 6th, 7-9pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Call backs may be called for Saturday, September 8th, 10am-1pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Please try to arrive on time and be prepared to stay.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Needed:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>4
men ages late 30’s – mid 60’s</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>1
woman age 30’s to early 40’s</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cast Breakdown</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>-
All characters are Czech citizens, circa late 1970’s.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>-
Vanek appears in all three one-acts.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><u>Vanek</u>:
Male, late 30’s-40’s. A dissident writer reduced to manual labor in a brewery.
Bright, observant, cautious and committed, he struggles with keeping body and
soul together in a police state. He is constantly trying to come to grips with
both the moral failings of his friends and of his own.<span style> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><u>Foreman</u>:
Male: Mid 40’s-Mid 60’s. A voluble alcoholic brewery supervisor. Coarse,
uneducated and desperate. He struggles to find any shred of value in his
oppressive life, as well as to comply with a police order he finds incomprehensibly
opaque.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><u>Vera</u>:
Female: 30’s early 40’s. Attractive, energetic former bohemian turned mother
and homemaker. Her world is on the verge of cracking up every minute, and she
must constantly overachieve to keep it together.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><u>Michael</u>:
Vera’s husband, late 30’s—early 40’s. Former bohemian turned successful
businessman and father. Bright, urbane and obsessive, he spends every moment
trying to respect himself as aesthete. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><u>Stanek</u>:
50’s—early 60’s. Avant garde novelist turned television writer. Extremely
articulate, powerful and persuasive. Torn between his duty as a father and
livelihood. Can argue both sides of any question until the question almost
disappears.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Synopsis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Newly released from prison, the self-effacing dissident playwright Vanek
encounters friends, colleagues and an employer who offer to help re-acclimate
him to society. In these three comically absurd plays, Vanek’s humble integrity
offers a foil for the sophistry and duplicity of the people around him.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Production Dates</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>October
12, 13, 14, 2012 (Fri.-Sun.) at Steamer No. 10 Theatre</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact <a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org">info@theatervoices.org</a> with questions</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theatervoices.org">www.theatervoices.org</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Theater Voices will hold auditions for a staged reading of
THE VANEK PLAYS: Three One-Acts by Vaclav Havel, directed by Mark Dalton</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-September 5th, 7-9pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-September 6th, 7-9pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Call backs may be called for Saturday, September 8th, 10am-1pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Note:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>
</span>Please arrive on time and be prepared to stay.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Needed:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>4
men ages late 30’s – mid 60’s</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span>1
woman age 30’s to early 40’s</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All characters are Czech citizens, circa late 1970’s.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact <a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org">info@theatervoices.org</a> with questions</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theatervoices.org">www.theatervoices.org</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Theater Voices will hold auditions for a staged reading of
THE VANEK PLAYS: Three One-Acts by Vaclav Havel, directed by Mark Dalton</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-September 5th, 7-9pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-September 6th, 7-9pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Call backs may be called for Saturday, September 8th, 10am-1pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Note:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please arrive on time and be prepared to stay.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Needed:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4 men ages late 30’s – mid 60’s</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 woman age 30’s to early 40’s</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All characters are Czech citizens</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Set in the 1970s, a dissident playwright named Vanek
encounters friends, colleagues and an employer who offer to help re-acclimate
him to society. In these three comically absurd plays, Vanek is a foil for the
sophistry and duplicity of the people around him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright in the communist era,
not unlike the Vanek character, went on to become the first president of the
Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote more than 20 plays and numerous
non-fiction works, translated internationally.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Production dates: October 12-14, 2012 (Fri.-Sun.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theatervoices.org">www.theatervoices.org</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org">info@theatervoices.org</a> for more information.</p>
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