<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><b style=""><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The New Russia Cultural Center is still seeking actors for </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">3 minor, but notable, character roles, for their new adaptation of Gorenstein's <i>BERDICHEV</i>, now titled <i>The Family That Never Happened</i>.  </span></b></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><b style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000"><b>GRIGORY TIBER -- </b>Retired military officer, celebrating his son's wedding  (40-70)</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000"><b>TOLYA                  --  </b>Macho, over-the-hill Soviet athlete  (30-60)</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000">MAKZANIK<b>         -- </b>Factory poet and populist  (30-70)</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><b style=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">These roles may be double-cast.   A full rehearsal schedule is available.  </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:21.3333px"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><font size="4">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.  The NRCC American premiere will be performed in both English and Russian, with separate casts.</font></span><br></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><font size="4" color="#000000"><b style=""><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";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";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://newrussiacenter.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">newrussiacenter.org</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> web site.)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><b style="">PERFORMANCE DATES</b> (English Language cast):  January 15, 2022 and January 21, 2022, at the new Neil and Jane Golub Theater in the Schenectady Boys and Girls Club.  </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="4" style="" color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="">To schedule an audition, </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> please contact </span><a href="mailto:tdeptola@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">tdeptola@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> or call 518-382-9438</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><br></p>Thank you.  Ron Miller for the NRCC</div>