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Call for actors in Sydney for August production of powerful play Breaking Bread in NIDA Playhouse
at Double Dare Productions - Sydney
Seeking actors for Breaking Bread
(working title)
Double Dare Productions is seeking actors for a profit-share production at the Parade Playhouse Space at NIDA the first two weeks of August 2010.
See synopsis below.
Auditions:
Auditions will be at Apartment 501, 19 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay (the residential pier next to the theatre pier (Wharf Theatres).
Audition times: March 30 from 9 to 5;
March 31 from 9 to 11:15 and 2 to 5:00
April 10 from 9 to 5
Callbacks and reserve auditions are April 19 and 20 at nominated times.
Approximately 15 minutes
Please come prepared with a short monologue.
Rehearsals:
We will endeavour to arrange rehearsal times to accommodate the actors\' other work and study timetables.
• Early rehearsals also at 19 Hickson Road
• Dress rehearsals and bump in: August 2 and 3 in Parade Space, during the day and possibly also night.
Playwright/producer: Carol Dance
Breaking Bread has powerful and complex roles for all six actors.
Characters:
David: Australian, age 45 to 55 (a businessman)
Susan: Australian, age 45 to 55 (a doctor)
Harry: Australian, age about 20 (Harry is a high school student, then a soldier)
Pop: Australian, age 65 or older, preferably black hair or grey/white hair (also plays several minor roles) Australian, American accents
Man: Plays a variety of characters (navy officer, Blackwater soldier) Australian, American and Iraqi accents
Woman: Plays a variety of characters (Iraqi woman, Australian farmer, Madeleine Albright, others), Australian, American and Iraqi accents
What to do now:
Please read synopsis below to see if the story interests you,
Include height, hair colour and accents in your CV,
Please email a CV to ddproductions@pacific.net.au,
Please email photo (if you\'ve got a good one),
Email show reel (if you\'ve got one; don\'t worry if you don\'t)
Then we will ring or email you to arrange an audition time and email the script to you. If you haven\'t heard from us a couple of days after you email us, please ring (contact details follow synopsis).
Breaking Bread
Carol Dance
Synopsis
The story begins when Harry is 15, excited about going to his grandfather\'s farm for the holidays where he shoots roos and rides a quad bike. Susan is his overworked doctor mother. His father, David, is an executive with the Australian Wheat Board.
Then Harry is in the Australian army, serving first in Afghanistan, then Iraq. On leave in Australia, Harry is concerned about the morality of the kickbacks the Wheat Board pays Saddam Hussein. David argues that \"everyone\" does it\".
When Susan discovers David has been paying the kickbacks and that he is planning a nasty legal trick on the Americans, she leaves him.
Harry joins the private security company, Blackwater International. He is killed under mysterious circumstances. Susan decides she must work in a hospital in Iraq and find out the exact circumstances of her son\'s death. After some time there, she encounters a Blackwater soldier and learns the startling truth.
The story is punctuated with amusing, shocking and relevant interjections of actual things that happened in Iraq, Australia, the UN, the UK and the USA. These are lively \'narrations\' that make up half the play.
Double Dare Productions
0403 194 174
8060 6485 ddproductions@pacific.net.au
(working title)
Double Dare Productions is seeking actors for a profit-share production at the Parade Playhouse Space at NIDA the first two weeks of August 2010.
See synopsis below.
Auditions:
Auditions will be at Apartment 501, 19 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay (the residential pier next to the theatre pier (Wharf Theatres).
Audition times: March 30 from 9 to 5;
March 31 from 9 to 11:15 and 2 to 5:00
April 10 from 9 to 5
Callbacks and reserve auditions are April 19 and 20 at nominated times.
Approximately 15 minutes
Please come prepared with a short monologue.
Rehearsals:
We will endeavour to arrange rehearsal times to accommodate the actors\' other work and study timetables.
• Early rehearsals also at 19 Hickson Road
• Dress rehearsals and bump in: August 2 and 3 in Parade Space, during the day and possibly also night.
Playwright/producer: Carol Dance
Breaking Bread has powerful and complex roles for all six actors.
Characters:
David: Australian, age 45 to 55 (a businessman)
Susan: Australian, age 45 to 55 (a doctor)
Harry: Australian, age about 20 (Harry is a high school student, then a soldier)
Pop: Australian, age 65 or older, preferably black hair or grey/white hair (also plays several minor roles) Australian, American accents
Man: Plays a variety of characters (navy officer, Blackwater soldier) Australian, American and Iraqi accents
Woman: Plays a variety of characters (Iraqi woman, Australian farmer, Madeleine Albright, others), Australian, American and Iraqi accents
What to do now:
Please read synopsis below to see if the story interests you,
Include height, hair colour and accents in your CV,
Please email a CV to ddproductions@pacific.net.au,
Please email photo (if you\'ve got a good one),
Email show reel (if you\'ve got one; don\'t worry if you don\'t)
Then we will ring or email you to arrange an audition time and email the script to you. If you haven\'t heard from us a couple of days after you email us, please ring (contact details follow synopsis).
Breaking Bread
Carol Dance
Synopsis
The story begins when Harry is 15, excited about going to his grandfather\'s farm for the holidays where he shoots roos and rides a quad bike. Susan is his overworked doctor mother. His father, David, is an executive with the Australian Wheat Board.
Then Harry is in the Australian army, serving first in Afghanistan, then Iraq. On leave in Australia, Harry is concerned about the morality of the kickbacks the Wheat Board pays Saddam Hussein. David argues that \"everyone\" does it\".
When Susan discovers David has been paying the kickbacks and that he is planning a nasty legal trick on the Americans, she leaves him.
Harry joins the private security company, Blackwater International. He is killed under mysterious circumstances. Susan decides she must work in a hospital in Iraq and find out the exact circumstances of her son\'s death. After some time there, she encounters a Blackwater soldier and learns the startling truth.
The story is punctuated with amusing, shocking and relevant interjections of actual things that happened in Iraq, Australia, the UN, the UK and the USA. These are lively \'narrations\' that make up half the play.
Double Dare Productions
0403 194 174
8060 6485 ddproductions@pacific.net.au
Published 27-03-2010