Casting Call for Upcoming Play
Performers needed for "The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women". Please see the details below. About the project: A play with intense audience participation! Engrossing, controversial courtroom drama, where the audience must serve as judge and jury, deciding motions and verdict, in a case against the five women who betrayed Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, the last surviving daughter of the Tsar of Russia. Complex ethical questions on a set of folding chairs. The Anastasia Trials is a farcical but profoundly engaging excursion into the hidden world of ethics for women who are both survivors and perpetrators of abuse toward women. The format is a play-within-a-play, where a radical feminist theatre company comes together in order to perform a courtroom drama. The play is shaped by the audience's decisions to overrule or sustain the attorneys’ motions, and every night’s audience sees a different play. Additional info: Sides will be provided for a cold read. Performances March 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 at 7 pm and 23 at 3 pm. Tentative rehearsal schedule - Tues and Thurs 6:30-9 pm and Saturday 10-2 pm to begin Saturday, January 11. Please complete the audition form and consent form attached and bring it with you to the audition. If interested, please apply.
9 roles
A butch stagehand, plays the Bailiff.
The founder and director of the Emma Goldman Theater Brigade, plays the Prosecuting Attorney.
The daughter of a rich man, plays the Defense Attorney and also Annie Jennings, a wealthy socialite.
An actor with stomach flu, plays Anastasia Romanov, and also the Prosecuting Attorney.
An actor bent on impressing the critics, plays Thea Malinowsky, a nurse from a public mental asylum.
A grassroots, radical activist, plays Clara Peuthart, an alcoholic bag lady.
An actor with professional aspirations, plays Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, former lady-in-waiting to Anastasia’s mother.
An actor who resents Diane’s authority, plays Shura Tegleva, Anastasia’s former nursemaid.
The playwright, plays Baroness Zinaida Tolstoy, a former friend to Anastasia’s mother and Anastasia.
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