Producer/Company: Playwrights Workshop Trinbago in collaboration with Trinidad Theatre Workshop
Seeking: M/F Actors 17-100 y/o (See Character Breakdown)
For: Live Performance (Theatre)
Title: First Annual New Play Festival
Description: CALLING ALL ACTORS! Playwrights Workshop Trinbago in collaboration with Trinidad Theatre Workshop presents its first Annual New Play Festival. Here’s an opportunity of a lifetime to work with some of our theatre greats: Tony Hall, Raymond Choo Kong, Mervyn de Goeas, Penelope Spencer, Christine Johnston, Michael Cherrie, Ralph Maraj, Belinda Barnes, Albert Laveau, Rawle Gibbons, AND Dr. Lester Efebo Wilkinson. Their goal – to help you grow, exceed your potential and realize your dreams.
This is your time – your chance – take the stage! ONE FESTIVAL; ONE THEATRE; ONE PASSION
Application Format: Live Audition
Date: Saturday 20th August 2016
Time: 1pm -4pm
Location: Necessary Arts | #44 Dundonald St, Port of Spain (View Map)
Preparation: Interested persons are asked to email their photos [head shot, full body shot], experience and contact info to email address below with the subject line: “NPF 2016 Auditions.”
Please be advised that the earlier the audition the better the chance of being chosen.
NB: New and upcoming actors with little experience are encouraged to audition.
Contact Info: newplayfestivaltt@hotmail.com, (868) 351-6293
Character Breakdown:
MIRACLE by Ronald John (90 mins)
Synopsis: “Miracle was inspired by the real life kidnap and murder of Vindra Naipaul-Coolman in 2007. The play is not a version of what actually happened. What is presented all comes from the playwright’s imagination.
In this play, an East Indian woman is kidnapped for ransom by two young African men. As the story unfolds, the playwright seeks to deal with issues like race relationship, criminality, and most importantly, a woman’s will to survive brutality.
Casting:
Cassandra (any ethnicity)
Elvis (African)
Joe (African)
Joanna (East Indian)
Raj (East Indian)
ANGELS LIVE IN TUNAPUNA by Sonja Dumas (20-30 mins)
Synopsis: An old misunderstanding over a woman has driven a decades-long wedge in the friendship of Frank and Boxo, but when they die, meet in Limbo and are awaiting a decision about where they will spend eternity, they are forced to confront their estrangement. Framed in the rum shop humour found in Trinidad, their story is one of brotherly love – lost, and found.
Casting:
2 Older males – 40’s upwards
1 Young male 20’s upwards
1 Male – voice only
HELL by Safa Niamat-Ali (60 mins)
Synopsis: a girl, angry at everyone and everything, embarks on a journey of vengeance. Believing her life was unjustly manipulated by the devil, with no interference or protection from God, she pursues her first enemy… Through the cosmogony of Egyptian Mythology, she ventures into Hell accompanied by three minions; a thief, a killer and a scholar. Her penultimate goal…to make the Devil pay for every wrong ever committed to her.
Casting:
1 Female – 20’s
2 Males – mid 30’s
1 Male – 40’s
1 Male – voice only
1 Male/Female – any age/ethnicity
The ethnicity for all the above roles is irrelevant
Opening Date: 28th October 2016
