<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AFTER YESTERDAY</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> (English version):  Open Call for all parts</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The New Russia Cultural Center is holding auditions for their American premiere of  F. Gorenstein's  play "<i>After Yesterday</i>" (original title “<i>Berdichev</i>”). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Gorenstein, best known for scripting the 1972 film "Solaris", portrays the everyday life of a Jewish family after the Holocaust in Central Ukraine.  It is an unsentimental story about post-Holocaust Jews, separated from their culture, history and people, who nonetheless survive through laughter and tears.   It was the surprise hit of the season at its world premiere at the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow in 2014.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">   </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">DIRECTOR:</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  <b>OLEG GOLUB </b>-- </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:maroon;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Director, actor (Russian Academy of Theater Arts, Moscow), TV host, screenwriter, and theater jurist.  (More information at </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://newrussiacenter.org/" target="_blank">newrussiacenter.org</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:maroon;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> web site.)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">   </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">RAKHIL</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – War-widow with 2 daughters and strong personality -- can be warm and humorous, or profane and argumentative. (Mid-40’s)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ZLOTA </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Rakhil’s older sister, a dressmaker, long-suffering but looks for the good in others.  (50+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">RUZYA </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Rakhil’s daughter, can’t live up to her mother’s expectations, so retreats into a loveless marriage.  (20’s)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">LYUSYA</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Rakhil’s younger daughter, doted on by her mother, cheerful, outgoing.  (Teen)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">VILYA</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Rakhil’s nephew, a keen observer, smart, wry, little tolerance for hypocrisy and injustice. (Teen, then adult)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">SUMER </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Rakhil’s brother.  Dotes on his sisters, but can’t tolerate Rakhil’s uproars.  Always ready with a homily.  (50+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">MILYA </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Ruzya’s husband, struggles for status and acceptance, but stigmatized by his Jewish heritage never succeeds.  (30’s)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BRONFENMACHER </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Headstrong and belligerent neighbor. A member of the City Committee, he bullies others for his own end, but becomes compliant when he needs their support.  (50+) </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">MARIK and GARIK</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Ruzya and Milya’s sons, rowdy squabblers with uncouth friends.  (7-12 yrs)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">GARIK (adult)</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Ruzya and Milya’s younger son, lovelorn, rebels against his parents. (Late teen, 20s) </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">TOLYA</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Milya’s co-worker, aging athlete, tough guy, often drunk.  (30’s+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BYLYA SCHNEUR</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Cousin, financially better off, sympathetic to the sisters, but reserved.   (40+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">FANYA</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Neighbor, saved from Holocaust by her husband, who later resents having a Jewish wife. (30+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ZOYA</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Fanya’s daughter and Lyusha’s best friend.  Fears her father.  (Teen)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BORIS MAKZANIK</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – Factory poet, populist, object of disdain for Vilya.  (30+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">OVECHKIS </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Intellectual Moscow Jew, out of touch with the lives of less urbane Jews.  (50+)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">   </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some parts will be double-cast.   The script is still being finalized, and selections will be made available on site. </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">You may prepare a one-minute monologue, but this venue will be for mixed readings from the script.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Open Call Auditions will be held on:</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">                           Wednesday      October 13       6-8 pm</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">                           Thursday          October 14       6-8 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Location: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">            New Russia Cultural Center<br>            1550 Broadway<br>            Rensselaer, NY  12144</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">   </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Performance dates:      01/07/22 - 01/16/22</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B17ipdD1yoclQlRQakdiUktXcnc&revid=0B17ipdD1yoclQ1d2TW9nVVViNWxXWEVqUmp5YTM2eWltRWxRPQ"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>