[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for Theater Voices' first production-The Vanek Plays

[Theater Voices]

Theater Voices will hold auditions for a staged reading of THE VANEK PLAYS:
Three One-Acts by Vaclav Havel, directed by Mark Dalton



Location

    Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner of West
Lawrence Street.

Times

    Wednesday, September 5th, 7-9pm

    Thursday, September 6th, 7-9pm

    Call backs may be called for Saturday, September 8th, 10am-1pm

Notes

    Actors will be asked to read scenes from the plays.

    Please try to arrive on time and be prepared to stay.



Needed:

    4 men ages late 30’s – mid 60’s

    1 woman age 30’s to early 40’s



Cast Breakdown

    - All characters are Czech citizens, circa late 1970’s.

    - Vanek appears in all three one-acts.



    *Vanek*: 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.

    *Foreman*: 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.

    *Vera*: 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.

    *Michael*: 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.

    *Stanek*: 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.



Synopsis

    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.


Production Dates

    October 12, 13, 14, 2012 (Fri.-Sun.) at Steamer No. 10 Theatre



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