UPCOMING AUDITIONS
Marat/Sade
by Peter Weiss
Directed by Dorinda Toner
AUDITION LOCATION
Twilight Theater Company
7515 N Brandon Ave
Portland, OR 97217
AUDITION DATES
Sunday July 29
Time blocks: 1:00pm – 2:15pm; 2:45pm – 4:00pm
Monday July 30
Time blocks: 6:30 – 7:45pm; 8:15pm – 9:30pm
Callbacks TBD
Please sign up for ONE of the four audition blocks. If time slot is full, and you’re not able to attend at any other time, please send an email to artistic_director@twilighttheatercompany.org
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR AN AUDITION SLOT!
Sides are provided in advance (please prepare, memorization not required). Available below.
Those wishing to audition for singing roles may be asked to sing - prepared pieces & sheet music are not required.
Headshots and Resumes preferred - non-professional okay!
PERFORMANCE DATES
Oct 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28
REHEARSALS
Read-thru: Aug 11 2-5pm
Rehearsals Aug 18, 25
Sept 8-Oct 11 (specific dates/ times will be posted at auditions)
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
MARQUIS DE SADE (60-70)
French writer and libertine, confined at Charenton asylum for his nontraditional views on sex and violence
JEAL-PAUL MARAT (30-50)
the patient playing the physician and revolutionary leader who suffers from paranoia.
SIMONNE EVRARD (21-35)
the patient playing Marat’s mistress, who tries to persuade Marat to refrain from political activities
CHARLOTTE CORDAY (21-29)
the Narcoleptic patient playing the woman who eventually kills Marat
HERALD (30-65)
the patient playing the roles of both narrator and stage manager; often interrupts and comments on the action of the interior play
COLUMIER (40-60)
the asylum director. introduces the play and often interrupts to provide commentary or disciplinary action
COULMIER’S WIFE (35-60)
non-speaking role but interacts with both patients & audience
COULMIER’S DAUGHTER (21+)
non-speaking role but interacts with both patients & audience
DUPERRET (25-35)
the sex-depraved patient playing a deputy of the Girondists, the more conservative wing of the French revolutionary parliament
JACQUES ROUX (30-50)
the patient playing a former priest turned social radical.
THE FOUR SINGERS (any age)
SATB Help to narrate the story through song. strong part singers encouraged
ENSEMBLE (any age)
play several roles including, but not limited to, Mother, Father, Schoolmaster, Military Rep, Scientist, Voltaire, Lavoisier, Nurses, Patients - must be flexible in characterizations.
When appropriate, we will be flexible in our casting choices with regards to age and gender identity.
Synopsis:
This Tony Award-winning play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. But this play-within-a-play is not historical drama. Its thought is as modern as today’s police states and The Bomb; its theatrical impact has everywhere been called a major innovation. It is total theatre: philosophically problematic, visually terrifying. It engages the eye, the ear, and the mind with every imaginable dramatic device, technique, and stage picture, even including song and dance. All the forces and elements possible to the stage are fused in one overwhelming experience. This is theatre such as has rarely been seen before. The play is basically concerned with the problem of revolution. Are the same things true for the masses and for their leaders? And where, in modern times, lie the borderlines of sanity?
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing.
Twilight Theater Company is a nonprofit company, and regrets there is no pay available for this production.
by Peter Weiss
Directed by Dorinda Toner
AUDITION LOCATION
Twilight Theater Company
7515 N Brandon Ave
Portland, OR 97217
AUDITION DATES
Sunday July 29
Time blocks: 1:00pm – 2:15pm; 2:45pm – 4:00pm
Monday July 30
Time blocks: 6:30 – 7:45pm; 8:15pm – 9:30pm
Callbacks TBD
Please sign up for ONE of the four audition blocks. If time slot is full, and you’re not able to attend at any other time, please send an email to artistic_director@twilighttheatercompany.org
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR AN AUDITION SLOT!
Sides are provided in advance (please prepare, memorization not required). Available below.
Those wishing to audition for singing roles may be asked to sing - prepared pieces & sheet music are not required.
Headshots and Resumes preferred - non-professional okay!
PERFORMANCE DATES
Oct 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28
REHEARSALS
Read-thru: Aug 11 2-5pm
Rehearsals Aug 18, 25
Sept 8-Oct 11 (specific dates/ times will be posted at auditions)
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
MARQUIS DE SADE (60-70)
French writer and libertine, confined at Charenton asylum for his nontraditional views on sex and violence
JEAL-PAUL MARAT (30-50)
the patient playing the physician and revolutionary leader who suffers from paranoia.
SIMONNE EVRARD (21-35)
the patient playing Marat’s mistress, who tries to persuade Marat to refrain from political activities
CHARLOTTE CORDAY (21-29)
the Narcoleptic patient playing the woman who eventually kills Marat
HERALD (30-65)
the patient playing the roles of both narrator and stage manager; often interrupts and comments on the action of the interior play
COLUMIER (40-60)
the asylum director. introduces the play and often interrupts to provide commentary or disciplinary action
COULMIER’S WIFE (35-60)
non-speaking role but interacts with both patients & audience
COULMIER’S DAUGHTER (21+)
non-speaking role but interacts with both patients & audience
DUPERRET (25-35)
the sex-depraved patient playing a deputy of the Girondists, the more conservative wing of the French revolutionary parliament
JACQUES ROUX (30-50)
the patient playing a former priest turned social radical.
THE FOUR SINGERS (any age)
SATB Help to narrate the story through song. strong part singers encouraged
ENSEMBLE (any age)
play several roles including, but not limited to, Mother, Father, Schoolmaster, Military Rep, Scientist, Voltaire, Lavoisier, Nurses, Patients - must be flexible in characterizations.
When appropriate, we will be flexible in our casting choices with regards to age and gender identity.
Synopsis:
This Tony Award-winning play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. But this play-within-a-play is not historical drama. Its thought is as modern as today’s police states and The Bomb; its theatrical impact has everywhere been called a major innovation. It is total theatre: philosophically problematic, visually terrifying. It engages the eye, the ear, and the mind with every imaginable dramatic device, technique, and stage picture, even including song and dance. All the forces and elements possible to the stage are fused in one overwhelming experience. This is theatre such as has rarely been seen before. The play is basically concerned with the problem of revolution. Are the same things true for the masses and for their leaders? And where, in modern times, lie the borderlines of sanity?
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing.
Twilight Theater Company is a nonprofit company, and regrets there is no pay available for this production.
