Saturday, August 20, 2011

After a successful OFF-BROADWAY run
(Critics' Pick - Time Out New York)
and the publishing of "Prop 8 Love Stories"
("High high praise!" ~Anna Deavere Smith)...

WALKING ELEPHANT Theatre Company is holding AUDITIONS for its next original documentary theatre & film project…

"CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - THE MUSICAL"

~Cast members will create the play by interviewing & portraying brilliant and charismatic leaders who can lead us through our current broken, corrupt system and into a healthy, sustainable new world.

~Cast members will participate in acts of civil disobedience. (To be reenacted in some form on stage.)

~Cast members will create original music for the play.

~Cast members will tour the play through Monte Rio, Marin, Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.

~Cast members will change the world.

(A movie will be made, aired on local stations, and submitted to film festivals.)

AUDITION

Please PREPARE a 1 minute monologue and 1minute song
and schedule a 5 minute audition on either...

Saturday - SEPTEMBER 10 - between 12:00 & 4:00pm
or...
Sunday - SEPTEMBER 11 - between 12:00 & 4:00pm

*CALL BACKS...
Saturday - SEPTEMBER 17 - @ 12:00 noon

LOCATION
547 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA


AGES 11 to 17 welcome. (18-year-old high school seniors are also welcome.)

* CALL 707-527-2408 to SCHEDULE an AUDITION *


PRODUCTION DETAILS

* Workshop Phase
Sept 21 - Nov 30 / WEDNESDAYS - 4:30 to 6:30pm
(*Nov 23rd OFF for Thanksgiving)
During this phase the cast conducts interviews, participates in acts of civil disobedience, creates the play, and plays theatre games that strengthen their ability to portray their subjects with honesty, depth, and integrity.

* December OFF for the winter holidays.

* Rehearsal Phase
Jan 4 - Jan 27 / MON-FRI - 4:30 to 8:30

* Performance Phase
Jan 27 - Feb 26 / Fri & Sat @ 8pm / Sun @ 3pm
Cast members will tour the play through Monte Rio, Marin, Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.


http://thewalkingelephant.blogspot.com/


* CALL 707-527-2408 to SCHEDULE an AUDITION *