Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Audition Announcement
The Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, in association with Oblivion Productions, is proud to announce auditions for the Notheastern Pennsylvania Premiere Production of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, a benefit production for the area's longest-running community theater.
One of his earliest works, Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's Horror Play, illustrating the fall of the Roman Empire via a feud between two families caught in the cycle of Revenge. War, Politics, Sex, Murder, Rape, Religion, and Debauchery are the themes baked into the crust of this edgy, controversial play, which was arguably Shakespeare's most successful pot-boiler of its time. This exciting new production sets the play out-of-time, and will use the theatrical techniques of Antonin Artaud to enhance the dramatic and emotional impact of the action. The production will run for three performances, Friday February 10th and Saturday February 11th at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 12th at 3:00pm.
Rehearsals will be loosely scheduled working with the actors availability through the remainder of 2011, with a more detailed structure for major staging and performance solidification in January through the performance dates in February, 2012.
All roles are open for men and women ages 18 and over. Auditions will take place on Sunday, December 4th at 6:00pm-10:00pm and Thursday Decemeber 8th from 7:00pm-10:30pm at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, 537 North Main Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705 . Those interested in auditioning, please prepare one Dramatic Shakespearean monologue. If you do not have one, a monologue will be given to you at the audition. Actors and actresses are also asked to wear comfortable clothing, as part of the audition will be movement-based. Any questions, please Email the director at oblivion.productions@yahoo.com.
Titus Andronicus will be directed by area native Justin John Costello, whose NYC directorial credits under Oblivion Productions and the New York Performance Works include The Bacchae, Oedipus Rex, No Exit, Jacob, and the New York City Premiere of Clive Barker's History of the Devil, and who will also be shooting his first feature film Amongst The Living in the area May and June 2012.
One of his earliest works, Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's Horror Play, illustrating the fall of the Roman Empire via a feud between two families caught in the cycle of Revenge. War, Politics, Sex, Murder, Rape, Religion, and Debauchery are the themes baked into the crust of this edgy, controversial play, which was arguably Shakespeare's most successful pot-boiler of its time. This exciting new production sets the play out-of-time, and will use the theatrical techniques of Antonin Artaud to enhance the dramatic and emotional impact of the action. The production will run for three performances, Friday February 10th and Saturday February 11th at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 12th at 3:00pm.
Rehearsals will be loosely scheduled working with the actors availability through the remainder of 2011, with a more detailed structure for major staging and performance solidification in January through the performance dates in February, 2012.
All roles are open for men and women ages 18 and over. Auditions will take place on Sunday, December 4th at 6:00pm-10:00pm and Thursday Decemeber 8th from 7:00pm-10:30pm at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, 537 North Main Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705 . Those interested in auditioning, please prepare one Dramatic Shakespearean monologue. If you do not have one, a monologue will be given to you at the audition. Actors and actresses are also asked to wear comfortable clothing, as part of the audition will be movement-based. Any questions, please Email the director at oblivion.productions@yahoo.com.
Titus Andronicus will be directed by area native Justin John Costello, whose NYC directorial credits under Oblivion Productions and the New York Performance Works include The Bacchae, Oedipus Rex, No Exit, Jacob, and the New York City Premiere of Clive Barker's History of the Devil, and who will also be shooting his first feature film Amongst The Living in the area May and June 2012.
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