[Capdist-auditions] WAM Theatre holds auditions on June 24 for Emilie by Lauren Gunderson

Mon Jun 3 13:28:20 EDT 2013

Equity and non-Equity auditions for *Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet
Defends Her Life Tonight* by Lauren Gunderson will be held on *Monday, June
24* from 3pm-5pm at the Lenox Community Center at 65 Walker Street in
Lenox, MA.

WAM Theatre will present the Northeast Regional Premiere of *Emilie: La
Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight* by Lauren Gunderson from
November 7-24 at Barrington Stage Company’s St. Germain Stage at 36 Linden
Street in Pittsfield. Rehearsals will begin October 15, 2013. This is a
paid professional contract.

More information about auditions below and at
www.WAMTheatre.com<http://www.wamtheatre.com/>

*Date:*

Monday, June 24 2013

*Location:*

Lenox Community Center, 65 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240

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*Time:*

3:00pm-5:00pm*

*Callbacks are that same evening/location from 7pm-10pm. Some of those
auditioning may be requested to stay.

*How to Book an Audition:*

Email photo and resume to Kelly Galvin, Assistant to the Artistic Director,
at Kelly at wamtheatre.com.

*Audition Preparation:*

Please prepare a monologue or short scene from the play for the audition.
Script and side information will be emailed to those auditioning. Please
bring picture/resume, stapled together to audition. A reader will be
provided.

*Character Descriptions:*

Emilie du Châtelet – forty, dresses in no particular era, confident and
curious

Voltaire (V)– fifty, dresses immaculately in 18th Century fashion,
charming, boyish

Players:

Soubrette - A young woman, mid twenties, plays Emilie and others:
Mary-Louise – simple and stupid, Daughter – direct and strong

Gentleman- A handsome man, thirties, plays Jean-François and others:
Jean-François – young and doting, sincere, The Marquis – serious but warm,
very formal, Maupertuis – sexy and academic, Marain – snide and proud

Madam – A slightly older woman, fifties, plays Mother and others: Mother –
serious and wounded, Madam Graffigny – obnoxious and rich

*About the Play:*

*Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight* had its world
premiere in 2009 at South Coast Repertory Theatre. The play has been
described as ‘fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy’ (The San Francisco
Chronicle), ‘an evening of humor and heartbreak’ (BroadwayWorld) and as an
‘ambitious, highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with
electricity’ (LA/OC Examiner).

Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with
Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-1749) was more than a great man's
mistress. She was one of the leading interpreters of modern physics in
Europe, as well as a master of mathematics and linguistics, during the Age
of Enlightenment. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, she
proceeded to fulfill the prescribed-and delightfully frivolous-role of a
French noblewoman of her time. But she also challenged it, conducting a
highly visible affair with a commoner, writing philosophical works, and
translating Newton's "Principia" while pregnant by a younger lover. In this
play Emilie must defend her life by tallying her achievements in Love and
Philosophy—and searching for a formula that will convince the world of her
worth.

Lauren Gunderson is an award-winning playwright living in San Francisco.
She studied at Emory University and NYU's Tisch School of Performing Arts
where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has
been produced and developed at companies across the US including South Cost
Rep

(*Emilie*, *Silent Sky*), The Kennedy Center (*The Amazing Adventures of
Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!*), Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San
Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, The Magic, Actors Express, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, Playwrights
Foundation, Impact Theatre, The Lark, and The O'Neill. *Emilie: La Marquise
Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight* is published with Samual French. The
first two plays in her Shakespeare Cycle, *Exit, Pursued By A Bear and Toil
and Trouble* are now published by Playscripts. She is a Playwright in
Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild
member.  Los Angeles Times calls Gunderson someone who ‘possesses an antic
imagination that seeks to invent its own rules. As soon as we’re drawn in,
she shakes and whisks us 10 or 15 paces ahead’.

*Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight* will be directed
by Kristen van Ginhoven, WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director. For WAM Theatre,
Kristen’s directing credits include: *The Old Mezzo (*World Premiere)*, The
Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls *and Sarah Ruhl’s* Melancholy Play. *
 She recently was a director for the 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington
Stage Company, where she also was assistant director for *Sleuth* and *Absurd
Person Singular. *Elsewhere as a director, Kristen has worked at the
Stratford Festival of Canada, Capital Repertory Theatre, Majestic Theatre,
Cohoes Music Hall, and Emerson College. Kristen is a participant of the
2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.**

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*About WAM Theatre:*

WAM Theatre is a theatre company based in the Berkshires of Massachusetts
and the Capital Region of New York State. Inspired by the book ‘Half the
Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide’ by Nicholas
Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM Theatre was founded in 2009 by professional
theatre artists Kristen van Ginhoven and Leigh Strimbeck. WAM’s
philanthropic mission is two-fold; first, producing theatrical events for
everyone, with a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and
girls; second, to donate a portion of the proceeds from those events to
organizations that benefit women and girls. WAM has donated over $7000 to
its beneficiaries by creating professional theatre for everyone that
benefits women and girls. *www.wamtheatre.com*

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