Department of Theater and Dance
Have you ever dreamed of being on stage? Now is your chance! The Department of Theatre and Dance will be presenting three theatre productions this fall — By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr, Tartuffe by Moliere, and Shoeless Joe: A Musical Cabaret — and you're invited to be a part of them.
By the Bog of Cats & Tartuffe
General Auditions for By the Bog of Cats and Tartuffe will be held on Wednesday, August 28, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm in Poorman Black Box Theater, located in Climenhaga Building. Callbacks will be held on Thursday, August 29. An audition sign-up sheet and character descriptions will be posted starting August 22 on the callboard in the Theatre Hallway of lower-level Climenhaga.
AUDITION Requirements
Those planning to audition should prepare the following.
1 minute dramatic monologue utilizing an Irish accent.
1 minute comedic monologue from the Elizabethan or Neoclassical era.
Shoeless Joe: A Musical Cabaret
General Auditions for Shoeless Joe: A Musical Cabaret will be held on Wednesday, August 28, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm in Miller Theater, located in Climenhaga Building. Callbacks will be held on Thursday, August 29. An audition sign-up sheet will be posted starting August 22 on the callboard in the Theatre Hallway of lower-level Climenhaga.
AUDITION Requirements
Those planning to audition should prepare the following.
Two, 32-bar cut, contrasting style musical theatre songs. Bring sheet music in three ring binder for the live accompanist with the 32-bar cuts marked. Seeking uptempo/ballad, serious/comedic songs. Seeking old and new content.
**There will be additional opportunity to present duets, trios and/or quartets at these auditions. This is not required. More info provided on the sign up sheet.
By the Bog of Cats
Written by: Marina Carr
Directed by: Daniel Inouye
Poorman Blackbox Theater
Oct. 3-5 at 8 p.m.; Oct. 6 at 3 p.m.
Loosely based on Euripides' tragedy Medea, this is the prophetic tale of Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she has loved have discarded her. Set on the bleak, ghostly landscape of the Bog of Cats, this provocative drama discloses one woman's courageous attempts to lay claim to that which is hers, as her world is torn in two. Hester's long-term lover, Carthage Kilbride, with whom she has a seven-year-old daughter, is selling her "down the river" for the promise of land and wealth through a marriage with the local big farmer's daughter. In the final moments of the action, we witness a woman provoked beyond the limits of human endurance.
Tartuffe
Written by: Moliere
Directed by: Ed Cohn
Miller Theater
Nov. 14-16, 22-23 at 8 p.m.; Nov. 17 & 24 at 3 p.m.
Nov. 21, 10:00 a.m. special school performance
The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe—a fraud and pious imposter—has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house, and then tries to marry his daughter, seduce his wife and steel the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, but an emissary from King Louis XIV arrives in time to recover the property, free Monsieur Orgon, and haul Tartuffe off to jail. And so his duplicity is finally exposed and punished.
Shoeless Joe: A Musical Cabaret
Directed by Susan Hurley
Oct. 12 at 8:00 p.m. Oct. 13 at 3:00 p.m.
Poorman Blackbox Theatre
A new cabaret every time! Uniquely built for each new cast.
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Casting is open to all members of the academic community. Occasionally, guest actors will be employed. Any 四色AV University student enrolled and in good academic standing as defined by the statement on satisfactory academic process in the student handbook is encouraged to audition.
The Department of Theatre & Dance follows an Inclusive Casting Policy which means that casting is open to all actors regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or age. Exceptions to the Inclusive Casting Policy may be taken when specified by the director's production concept. An exception to the Inclusive Casting Policy must be made when the dramatist's stage directions regarding race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or age are both explicit and protected by the license to produce the play.
Theatre majors who have declared the acting emphasis are required to audition for all department productions. Specific details about semester auditions are posted in the Climenhaga Building Theatre Hallway on the call board.
For any questions, please contact Daniel Inouye at Ext. 2409 or dinouye@messiah.edu