[Capdist-auditions] paid acting job

Tue Mar 28 16:22:33 EDT 2023

Voice Theatre casting SUMMER AND SMOKE  by Tennessee Williams

CONTRACT:

Non-Equity Stipend: $600. Accommodation and travel provided for all actors who live more than 50 miles away.  Auditions are by appointment only. Sides will be sent via email.

DATES:

UPSTATE CASTING at Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St, Kingston, NY. On 4/2, 4/16, 4/23.

Rehearsals: June 12 - July 7, 2023

Tech: July 7 – July 12, 2023
Performances: July 13 – July 30, 2023.

Thursday - Saturday @ 7:30pm with 3 Sunday matinees @ 2pm + one extra Sat. matinee @ 2pm on July 29th.                                                           

Rehearsal and performances take place in Uptown Kingston, at Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St., Kingston, NY. Rehearsals will take place during the day.

Production will be set in the thirties.

AVAILABLE ROLES:

Dr. John Buchanan Sr. 50-60+: John’s father and the town doctor, has delivered hundreds of babies, very opinionated and stiff in thought and physicality. Rigid and lives for his rules. Doesn’t have much love to spare.

Mrs. Winemiller 45-50+: Alma’s mother. Mr. Winemiller’s wife. She has skirted her responsibilities of later life by slipping into a state of perverse childishness. She is known as Mr. Winemiller's "Cross.” Selfish, childish, unempathetic, alarming behavior, an embarrassment to her husband and daughter. Inappropriate all the time. She loves ice cream and steal hats. Enjoys making fun of her sensitive daughter at all the wrong times.

Rosa Gonzales 25-40: Sexy, earthly, flashy, desperate. Out to have a good time and prove her worthiness. An exhibitionist. Wants to get away from her father. She is in lust of John Buchanan

Papa Gonzales 50-60+: Rosa’s father. A big man, not well educated. Violent when drunk. Has a chip on his shoulder. Spanish speaker is a plus.

Mr. Roger Doremus, Dusty, Archie Kramer 20-30:

Roger is a rather bland, boring, unappealing washed-out human being. Never puts a foot wrong. On the too quiet side. Adoring of his mother.  

Dusty is fun loving and a happy sort of guy.

Archie Kramer is a traveling salesman on a job for the first time very green and inexperienced.

PERSONNEL:

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Shauna Kanter
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Paul Bloom

COMPANY MANAGERS: Suzannah Kellner, Christa Trinler

DIRECTOR: Shauna Kanter

SM: TBA

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Grace Crummett

ASM: Mia Barbuto

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Wheeler Moon

COSTUME DESIGNER: Charlie Barnett IV

SET DESIGNER: Carin Jean White

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Ian Herchender

SOUND DESIGNER: Mia Barbuto

Voice Theatre is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Please submit your photo and CV to info at voicetheatre.org Tell us what role you are interested in and we will send SIDES and the time/date/location of your audition.

SYNOPSIS:

Summer and Smoke is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, and centers on Alma Winemiller, a highly strung, unmarried minister's daughter, and the spiritual/sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and John Buchanan Jr., a wild, undisciplined young doctor who grew up next door. She, ineffably refined, identifies with the gothic cathedral, "reaching up to something beyond attainment"; her name, as Williams makes clear during the play, means "soul" in Spanish; whereas Buchanan, doctor and sensualist, defies her with the soulless anatomy chart.

By the play's end, however, Buchanan and Alma have traded places philosophically. She has been transformed beyond modesty. She throws herself at him, saying "now I have changed my mind, or the girl who said 'no', — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her." But he has changed, he is engaged to settle down with a respectable, younger girl, and as he tries to convince Alma that what they had between them was indeed a "spiritual bond", she realizes, in any event, that it is too late.

In the final scene, Alma accosts a young traveling salesman at dusk in the town park, and as the curtain falls, she follows him to enjoy the "after-dark entertainment" at Moon Lake Casino, where she had resisted Buchanan's attempt to seduce her there the previous summer.

VOICE THEATRE BRIEF HISTORY:

Started in Paris in 1988 with initial funding from the French Government, Voice Theatre moved to New York City in 1989. Since then, we have produced more than 40 full-scale productions, from original plays such as "Birds on a Wire" (four stars at the Edinburgh Festival), to American classics, Off-Broadway shows, Spring Reading Series, 10-Minute Play Festivals, and many more activities in the United States, Germany, France, Britain and the Middle East. Since 2003, we have led free, in-school workshops in New York City and Upstate, NY. We also offer adult classes and summer youth workshops. In 2014 Voice Theatre renovated the historic Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, NY.

Voice Theatre’s first production in Paris was “Family Cycles”, a theatre piece for 30 actors. The following year, at La MAMA in New York City, Voice Theatre produced "Pushing Through" (University of Nebraska Press), a music theatre piece performed by Palestinian and Israeli women.

Off-Broadway productions include; “Retzach” at 59E59 Theatres, “Our Country’s Good” at the CSV Cultural Center, and “The Laramie Project” at the Barrow Group Theater. Featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” Voice Theatre has received press from the New York Times, London Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Washington Post, among many others.

Shauna Kanter 
Artistic Director, Voice Theatre (office) 845 679 0154 (cell) 917 494 6273
http://www.voicetheatre.orgFacebook.com/Voicetheatre.org
Giving voice to extraordinary theatre
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