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    Staged Reading, directed by Steve Siler

  • AUDITIONS FOR 

    The Real Thing

    By Tom Stoppard

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    A STAGED READING

    Directed by Steve Siler

    At 

    Mendocino Theatre COMPANY

    45200 Little Lake Street

    Mendocino, Ca. 95460

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    Auditions to be held on 

    SATURDAY, JULY 18 (12:00 – 3:00)

    and

    MONDAY, JULY 20 (6:30 – 9:00)

    At The Mendocino Theatre Company

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    To be performed on three consecutive Wednesdays:

    September 9, 16, 23

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    About the STAGED READING format:

    What is a staged reading? It is well-rehearsed with a focus on relationships and emotional movement in the play, with enough (minimal) blocking and physical movement to convey the essence of the characters relationships and the actions of the play. There will be no props or costumes and no music stands. All actors move and speak throughout the staging.

     

    About The Play:

    The Real Thing is famously Stoppard at his most personal, emotional and soulful. To get it off the boards, it must be a bracing experience for an audience, even in a staged reading. By that I mean that the audience resonates with the play in such a way that they are touched deeply by who the characters are and what they are going through. The play lives on so many levels, deeply personal and packed with ideas and emotions. It’s about many things, but the key to the play is love - experiencing it, losing it, sharing it, growing it… it’s depth and maturity, as well as fun and flirty.

    I’m asking actors to delve deeply in developing character and breaking down scenes. We’ll have a few more rehearsals than is usual for a staged reading, (not more that 3 or 4, and you’ll only be called for scenes you are in). Rehearsals will involve evenings for scene work and an extended rehearsal on a weekend day to put the play together. I’m more than happy to meet privately or with scene partners to work outside of scheduled rehearsals.

    Rehearsals will take place at my home in Fort Bragg

    Steve Siler (Director)

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  • CHARACTERS: 4M, 3W (British dialect throughout)

    Max - middle age, Annie’s husband, a successful actor appearing in Henry’s West End play, debonair on stage but insecure in real life

    Charlotte - middle age, Henry’s wife, an actor appearing in Henry’s West End play, unhappy with the play and with Henry

    Henry - middle age, married to Charlotte, in an affair with Annie, he’s an acclaimed playwright, flippant wit, brilliant, a bit smug, classy, capable of dazzling wordplay

    Annie - middle age, Max’s wife, a successful actor on the West End, Broadway and film, in an affair with Henry, also an actor, playful, emotional, free spirit, great heart, honest with herself and her feelings

    Billy - younger, an actor appearing with Annie in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, charismatic, confident, playful, passionate, capable of sweeping Annie off her feet

    Debbie - late teens-early 20’s, Henry and Charlotte’s daughter, confident and sure of herself in an adolescent sort of way

    Brodie - indeterminant age, a soldier recently released from prison, an ungrateful lout, politically rebellious

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