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CURRENT AUDITIONS:
Equity(SPT
Level 2)
Non-Equity
NON-UNION AUDITIONS FOR
SCCC STUDENTS & FACULTY--
OTHER COLLEGE STUDENTS IN
TRI-STATE REGION. |
Auditions for Equity and non-Equity actors
will be
announced throughout the 2011-12 Season.
Audition material listed below |
EQUITY STAGE MANAGER FOR THE IMPORTANCE
OF BEING EARNEST. MID-MAY-JUNE 17. ABILITY TO OPERATE A NEW ETC
LIGHT BOARD A
PLUS--E-MAIL LETTER OF INTEREST & RESUME OR CALL ASAP--
EQUITY PRINCIPAL AUDITIONS:
none at this time
Tri-State Actors Theater
PO Box 7225,
Sussex, NJ
EPA at: The Performing Arts Center
Sussex County Comm. College
Newton, NJ 07860
Bus:
Lakeland Bus Lines--http://www.lakelandbus.com
Local Bus: Sussex County Transit: call 973-579-0483
No
appointment necessary. The producer will run all aspects of this call.
Equity Principal Audition procedures are not in effect, and no
Equity Monitor will be provided.
Sides will be provided at the audition and on our web site--CLICK HERE FOR SIDES --www.tristateactorstheater.org--prior
to the auditions. Sides(large type) will be provided to visually
challenged actors two days before the auditions by calling 973-875-2950. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Equity
members who are unable to attend the audition are urged to mail photos and
resumes to:
Tri-State Actors Theater, PO Box 7225, Sussex, NJ 07461. |
Breakdown:
(NONEQUITY ONLY) John Worhing, Algernon, Gwendolen,
Cecily, Lane, Merriman.
Synopsis:
THE IMPORTANCE
OF BEING EARNEST
The ultimate in classic comic theatrical entertainment! Oscar Wilde’s
hilarious farce, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST , or “A Trivial Comedy
for Serious People.” A farcical comedy in which two young
men-about-London Jack Worthing and his friend Algernon Moncrieff
maintain fictitious identities in order to escape burdensome social
obligations, the play pokes fun at such serious subjects as marriage,
love, and Victorian society. World famous for its many witty lines such
as: “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by
being immensely over-educated” and “In married life, three is company,
and two is none,” THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is high farce and one
of the world’s most enduringly popular plays.
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NON-EQUITY AUDITIONS:THE
IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde--
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 10AM-5PM,
AT THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
DIRECTIONS
Auditions
: AUDITIONS FOR
SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND
STAFF--OTHER COLLEGE
& UNIVERSITY ACTORS ARE ALSO INVITED TO AUDITION.
Sides will be provided at the audition and on our web site
----www.tristateactorstheater.org--prior
to the auditions.
CLICK HERE FOR SIDES Sides(large type) will be provided to visually
challenged actors two days before the auditions by calling 973-875-2950.
Please bring a picture and , resume, stapled together.
ROLES BEING AUDITIONED: [ALL PARTS MUST BE
PLAYED WITH ENGLISH ACCENTS, AGES GIVEN BELOW INDICATE POSSIBLE AGE RANGE
FOR PLAYING THE CHARACTER.]
JOHN WORTHING--20-30,
Often goes to London for the fun of it.
Jack Worthing is a
seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life. In
Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate, Jack is known as Jack. In
London he is known as Ernest. As a baby, Jack was discovered in a handbag in
the cloakroom of Victoria Station by an old man who adopted him and
subsequently made Jack guardian to his granddaughter, Cecily Cardew. Jack is
in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax. The initials
after his name indicate that he is a Justice of the Peace.
Actor must be
capable of handling comedy and fast-paced language.
ALGERNON MONCRIEFF, 20-30,
- Algernon is a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady
Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing,
whom he has known for years as Ernest. Algernon is brilliant, witty,
selfish, amoral, and given to making delightful paradoxical and epigrammatic
pronouncements. Actor must be
capable of handling comedy and fast-paced language.
GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX--18-25,
Algernon’s cousin and Lady
Bracknell’s daughter. Her
father is a viscount or baron
(English aristocracy.) Gwendolen is in love with
Jack, whom she knows as Ernest. She is
quick-witted and attractive--a model and arbiter of high
fashion and society, Gwendolen speaks with unassailable authority on matters
of taste and morality. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and
utterly pretentious. Gwendolen is fixated on the name Ernest and says she
will not marry a man without that name.
Actor must be capable of
handling comedy and fast-paced language.
CECILY CARDEW-- 18,
Jack’s ward, the granddaughter of the old gentlemen who found Jack in a
“handbag “and adopted Jack when Jack was a baby.
Attractive. Seems innocent, but very capable of
manipulating others to get what she wants.
Like Gwendolen, she is obsessed with the name Ernest, but she is even more
intrigued by the idea of wickedness. This idea, rather than the
virtuous-sounding name, has prompted her to fall in love with Jack’s brother
Ernest in her imagination and to invent an elaborate romance and courtship
between them. Actor
must be capable of handling comedy and fast-paced language.
MERRIMAN, 30-60-- butler to Mr. Worthing.
Actor must be
capable of handling comedy and fast-paced language.
LANE, 25-60-- Mr. Moncrieff's
manservant [butler, valet, etc.]
Actor must be capable of handling comedy and
fast-paced language.
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SIDES--Importance of Being
Earnest--MORE SOON
Jack.
It pains
me to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Bracknell about your nephew, but the
fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. I suspect him of
being untruthful. I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This
afternoon, during rny temporary absence in London on an important question of
romance, he obtained admission to my house by means of the false pretence of
being my brother . Under an assumed name he drank, I've just been informed by my
butler, an entire pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, '89; a wine I was
specially reserving for myself . Continuing his disgraceful deception,he
succeeded in the course of the afternoon in alienating the affections of my only
ward. He subsequently stayed to tea, and devoured every single muffin. And what
makes his conduct all the more heartless is, that he was perfectly well aware
from the first that I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and that I
don't intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly told him so
myself yesterday afternoon.
CECILY
ALGERNON. But how did we become engaged?
CECILY.Well ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that he had a
younger brother who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief
topic of conversation between myself and Miss Prism. And of course a man who is
much talked about is always very
attractive. One
feels there must be something in him after all. I daresay it was foolish of me,
but I fell in love you, Ernest.
ALGERNON. Darling! And when was the engagement actually settled?
CECILY. On the l4th of February last. Worn out by
your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or
the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted you under this dear
old tree here. The next day I bought this little ring in your name, and this is
the little bangle with the true lovers knot I promised you always to wear.
ALGERNON. Did I give you this? It's very pretty, isn’t it?
CECILY. Yes,
you’ve wonderfully good taste, Ernest. It’s the excuse I've always given for
your leading such a bad life. And this is the box in which I keep all your dear
letters.
ALGERNON. My letters! But my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any
letters.
CECILY. You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest, I remember only too well that
I was forced to write your letters for you. I wrote always three times a week,
and sometimes
oftener.
ALGERNON
I haven’t the intention of doing
anything of the kind. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is
quite enough to dine with one’s own relations. In the second place, whenever I
do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, and sent down with
either no woman at all, or two. In the third place, I know perfectly well whom
she will place me next to, to-night. She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who
always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very
pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent... and that sort of thing is enormously
on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands
is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It in simply washing ones clean linen
in public. Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist I naturally
want to talk to you about Bunburying. I want to tell you the rules.
Gwendolen
Oh!
It is strange he never mentioned to me that he had a ward. How secretive of him!
He grows more interesting hourly. I am not sure, however, that the news inspires
me with feelings of unmixed delight. I am very fond of you, Cecily; I have liked
you ever since I met you! But I am bound to state that now that I know that you
are Mr. Worthing’s ward, I cannot help expressing a wish you were - well, just a
little older than you seem to be - and not quite so very alluring in appearance.
In fact, if I may speak candidly --Well, to speak with perfect candour, Cecily,
I wish that you were fully forty-two, and more than usually plain for your age.
Ernest has a strong upright nature. He is the very soul of truth and honour.
Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. But even men of the
noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of
the physical charms of others. Modern, no less than Ancient History, supplies us
with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed,
History would be quite unreadable.
Sides for Lane and Merriman Soon!
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Theater Address, Directions, and Transportation
Theater is located in
northwestern New Jersey, approximately 50 miles from NYC.
Tri-State Actors Theater
PO Box 7225,
Sussex, NJ 07461
EPA & Open Auditions at: The Performing Arts Center
Sussex County Comm. College
Newton, NJ 07860
Bus(
from-to NY):
Lakeland Bus Lines--80W(to Newton) 80E (to NYC)
http://www.lakelandbus.com-(Ride
to Newton Shop Rite stop)
Local Bus:
Sussex County Transit:
weekdays only
call 973-579-048
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Equity and non Equity Actors*
are invited to submit headshots and resumes by
regular mail to:
Tri-State Actors Theater, PO Box 7225, Sussex, NJ 07461.
NO SUBMISSIONS BY E-MAIL ACCEPTED. |
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Artistic: (See Actors above.) |
Stage Manager (Equity and Non)/
EQUITY STAGE MANAGER FOR THE
IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. MID-MAY-JUNE 17. ABILITY TO OPERATE A NEW
ETC
LIGHT BOARD A
PLUS--E-MAIL LETTER OF INTEREST & RESUME OR CALL ASAP--
Tri-State
Actors Theater, P.O. Box 7225
Sussex, NJ 07461
Call 973-534-6512
email tristateactorstheater@centurylink.net
All designers may submit portfolios,
resumes, or other appropriate material to the address below.
Technicians--lighting and sound,
technical direction, painters, wardrobe--should send material to:
Sceneshop
at Tri-State Actors Theater, P.O. Box 7225,
Sussex, NJ 07461-7225 |
Administrative: Arts management
candidates, please send resumes to: Managing Director
at
the
following address .
Tri-State Actors Theater, P.O. Box 7225, Sussex, NJ 07461-7225
1) Development Consultant, Part-time.
Responsible to Managing Director, work in areas of grants and
corporate
gifts; individual contributions, audience development. Motivated Beginners
will be considered.
Writing skills a plus; must be a "people" person.
Drivers license necessary; car a plus, but not a prerequisite
for position. Consulting Fee.
2) Public Relations Consultant: Part-time.
Responsible to Managing Director, work in areas of "Branding Theatre,"
Print, Radio/TV, E Media, social networking. Image. Reaching all potential
audiences. Motivated Beginners will be considered.
Writing skills a plus; must be a "people" person.
Drivers license necessary; car a plus, but not a prerequisite
for position. Consulting Fee.
2)Administrative Intern: Responsible
to Managing Director; work front of house, publicity, advertising,
other areas
of administration of theater. Writing skills a plus; must be a "people" person.
Drivers license necessary; car a plus, but not a prerequisite for positions.
Stipend; housing. |
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VOLUNTEERS:
Tri-State Actors Theater welcomes people
who wish to volunteer to help us out in various capacities--ushering,
mailings, hosting, phone calls, fund-raisers--we are interested in your
participating in the work of Tri-State in many ways. Please give us a
call, or e-mail us anytime. |
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E-mail: Tri-State Phone
973-875-2950 |
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Tri-State Actors Theater
P.O. Box 7225
Sussex, NJ 07461-7225
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E-mail: Tri-State
