[Capdist-auditions] Actors/Musician needed for graduate directing project

[kristen vanginhoven]

'Tongues' by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaiken
Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven, SUNY Albany graduate directing student.

NEEDED: One male actor, one female actor and one musician (Percussion oriented)

Auditions: Sunday, April 6th, 630pm-900pm (630pm for slot sign-up)
Callbacks: Sunday, April 6th, 930pm-1030pm (Please be prepared to stay if necessary)
Location: Studio Theatre at Performing Arts Center (PAC) at SUNY Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 
Contact: Kristen van Ginhoven at kristenvanginhoven at yahoo.com or 518 878 0322

Those auditioning will be given a monologue upon arrival to look at and read during the audition. Work on the monologue will then be done with each actor during the audition. *If auditioning for the musician, the focus will be on exploring ways to accentuate the monologue with rhythm. 

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: 
 
 One Male Actor and One Female Actor: 
 Strong, diverse voices. Interested in physical and movement based theatre. Like to sing, have some experience with music and rhythm. Good collaborators, open to improvising and interested in exploring ensemble based theatre that crosses many styles from Realism to Absurdism. Can be any age.
 
 Musician: Ability with percussion instruments. Interest in exploring the combination of percussion and voice. Imaginative with choices of percussion instruments and means of rhythmic expression. A good collaborator. A musical improviser who likes to jam. Can be any age.

SYNOPSIS: 

This piece was first performed in 1978 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. It began from a desire from J. Chaiken and S. Shepard to work together. They met on a regular basis for three weeks, each time changing the location. They brainstormed pieces based on their locations; restaurant, beach, park, truck, theatre, etc. It became a piece about voices. Voices traveling. Voices becoming other voices. Voices from the dead and the living. Hypnotized voices. It contains elements like monologue, dialogue, song and trance poem. While creating the piece, they brought in some percussion instruments and started to jam. Soon, a form began to take shape. 

This piece will be directed by Kristen van Ginhoven as part of a final '10 minute play project' for a directing class at SUNY Albany. 
 www.kristenvanginhoven.com 
 
 Other directors in the class will also be looking for actors for their projects at the Sunday auditions. Synopsis and character breakdowns for all the plays will be at the auditions.

Performance of all plays: 
    Saturday, May 10th: 2pm at the Studio Theatre at SUNY Albany.

Required Rehearsal dates: 
    Monday, May 5, 2:30-5:30pm
    Tuesday-Friday, May 6-10-Evening Tech Rehearsals
    The rest of the rehearsal schedule will be determined by the availability of the     cast.  Rehearsals will begin mid-April.






       
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