Audition Notice: The Blue Room

by Site Admin on Thursday, November 1, 2007

Auditions, STAC productions

Open Auditions for The Blue Room
by David Hare
to be directed by Chris Jaeger

Auditioning Tue 13th November 2007 — 7.30pm
at the Swan Theatre (SAMA room), Worcester

Showing Tue 29th April — Sat 3rd May 2008
at the Swan Theatre, Worcester

The audition pieces will be page 20-22 of the Faber edition (Scene 4, The Student and the Married Woman) and 43-46 (Scene 6, The Married Woman and the Politician).

Cast: 1 female, 1 male

• Female: various characters of varying ages from early adulthood to late middle-age; The Girl, The Au Pair, The Married Woman, The Model, The Actress
• Male: various characters of varying ages from early adulthood to late middle-age; The Cab Driver, The Student, The Politician, The Playwright, The Aristocrat

Please note: Extensive nude work is required and simulated sex acts are performed by both actors.

Backstage crew will also be required.

The play: The Blue Room is a loose interpretation of a play called La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler (which itself was originally called Reigen) written in 1900. La Ronde was not premiered until 1921 in Vienna, when it was immediately closed down by the police. It also opened in Berlin in the same year, and was also closed, this time resulting in the trial of the 6 actors on obscenity charges. It was made into a film in 1950, and has become something of a cult classic.

David Hare has brought the play more or less up-to-date, and has written it for a cast of two (1 male and 1 female). There are ten scenes, and each actor plays the same character twice before changing to be someone else. The play is a bleak commentary on loveless sex, and a fairly depressing reflection on human nature at its most basic level.

Notes from the director:

I am intending to use live music (jazz trio) and a set of projected photos to represent the various placing of the scenes. It will be a real test for the cast, who have a series of rapid costume changes as well as some extensive changes of character with ages ranging from 18 – 50 for both sexes.

In addition, they will be required to do extensive nude work, both frontal and rear (although not at the audition!) and some scenes of simulated sex acts. There is strong language in the play.

Please ring me for a chat if you are thinking of auditioning, on 01905 727971 (day) or 07831 588780 (anytime).

Links:

• The Blue Room on Wikipedia
• See Who are STAC? for company information and a map to the theatre
• Google map of Bygones Antique shop, Worcester from where scripts can be borrowed
• Please make contact via the STAC website if you have any other queries

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