Casting Call For Stage Play "A Christmas Carol"
Theatre announces auditions for "A Christmas Carol". Looking for cast. Please see the breakdown below. About the project: Christmas Eve, 1843. Alone in his attic studio, Charles Dickens is visited by the spirit of his younger self. The Child demands a story. Struck by inspiration, Dickens summons his family and friends up to the attic to share the tale which is weaving itself through his brain. He insists that if he is to work on Christmas Eve, they must all participate in the telling. And so the story unfolds, with the cast of ten playing over 40 roles as they enact the classic story in a new and entertaining way. Additional info: NOTE: Actors of any ethnicity and any gender are encouraged to audition. The play calls for 5 male-presenting actors, 2 female-presenting actors). Sides will be provided prior to the audition dates. CALLBACKS: Saturday, October 7th, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Performances will be December 8th-16th (a total of 8 shows): 12/8, 12/9, 12/14, 12/15, & 12/16 at 8 p.m. 12/9, 12/10, & 12/16 at 2 p.m Please see the attachment.
7 roles
Tall, slim, seldom standing still; a dynamo of energy. A mesmerizing presence and voice. He is already near the height of his storytelling powers.
Wife of Dickens. She is the one who has the resources to put up with occasions such as this, when her husband's flights of imagination take precedence over everything else, with humor and grace.
The genial, quick-witted editor of the well-known weekly humor magazine Punch. He is advancing toward middle age and corpulence.
Younger brother of Charles. Something of a ne-er-do-well, but charming. He is a Dickens, after all.
A painter, famous for both his theatrical scene painting and naval genre pictures. Personable and handsome, with a quality that is at once mischievous yet gentle, equally at home in theaters and the Royal Academy.
Editor and writer; Dickens' closest friend and advisor. He's the only person to whom Dickens confided the painful story of his time in the blacking warehouse. He is in many ways Dickens' opposite: though given to occasional fits of joviality, he is by nature gruff and taciturn. It takes an evening such as this one to reveal that other side.
Wife of Stanfield. An actress before her marriage, she has no trouble slipping into the evening's festivities.
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