Casting Performers for "Cyrano De Bergerac" Play
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Seeking performers for "Cyrano De Bergerac" play. Please see the details below. About the project: Based on the translation by Brian Hooker with edits and additions by Rebecca Bernstein, the story, set in 17th-century France, follows the titular Cyrano, a playwright, poet, and swordsman with a very large nose. This attribute has kept him from confessing his love for his childhood friend, Roxane, who has instead fallen in love with Christian De Neuvellette, an attractive but ineloquent cadet in Cyrano’s regiment. And so, Cyrano provides Christian with words to use to woo the woman they both love. This production will lean into the story's romanticism, taking inspiration from the Baroque art of the 1600s and creating a fairytale aesthetic. Rate: A stipend of at least $150 to each actor cast. Additional info: Submissions of video auditions are open until April 20th, 2024. Who we are looking for: Audition materials: Audition video submissions should include a reading of one of the attached sides and your answer to the question asked. Audition Form & Conflicts: The audition form will ask for all conflicts from June 5th to August 11th. While directors will do everything in our power to work with conflicts if you have any evening conflicts or Saturday/Sunday daytime conflicts on the following performance dates, you will very likely not be cast: August 1st, August 2, August 3rd, August 4th, August 6th, August 8th, August 9th, August 10th, and August 11th. Callbacks: In-person callbacks will occur on April 25th from 7-10 in the upstairs black box theater at Jones Hall on the St. Thomas University Campus. Audition Recording: • Please introduce yourself and select ONE of the following sides. You can record this using your phone camera or Zoom—whatever works for you, as long as you are visible and audible! • Please introduce yourself and tell me about your familiarity with Cyrano. (This will not influence whether or not you are cast/called back; it is simply a way to get to know you.) • Please do not use any accents, as this production will be accentless. When preparing your audition, what I am looking for most are the following qualities: • An understanding of the text. • A clear choice about what the character wants from the other person or people they are speaking to. If you are interested, please see the attachment and apply.
21 roles
(Casting U/S only) As mentioned above, despite the hugeness of his nose, Cyrano uses his words and his sword to cut those who offend him. He is also his own worst enemy, and he stands in the way of getting what he wants.
Charming, refined, intellectual, witty, and a lover of poetry, she is a woman somewhat out of her time. She knows what she wants and finds any way to get it. We also see her personal growth throughout the play.
While quite sincere and a fine swordsman, Christian is not an intellectual. While initially accepting Cyrano's help, it eventually weighs too much on him.
For most of the play, he is everything Cyrano isn't: foppish, conceited, self-centered. He is also in love with Roxane and attempts to woo her in the play's first half. He is a general at the Siege of Arras, even though he hesitates to do any fighting himself.
An aspiring poet himself, Ragueneau begins the play as a baker, he appears in most of the play's acts, each time doing a different job.
Cyrano's best friend and confidante.
Nuns at the convent Roxane stays at in the play's last act. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with other ensemble roles.)
Nuns at the convent Roxane stays at in the play's last act. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with other ensemble roles.)
Nuns at the convent Roxane stays at in the play's last act. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with other ensemble roles.)
Roxane's chaperone (Actor playing this role will be doubled with other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
The audience and actor who appear in the play's first act. (Actors playing these roles will also play other ensemble roles.)
Additional ensemble roles. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with others.)
Additional ensemble roles. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with others.)
Additional ensemble roles. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with others.)
Additional ensemble roles. (Actors playing these roles will be doubled with others.)
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