Seeking Performers for "I Am Frankenstein" Show
The company is holding auditions for "I Am Frankenstein" Show and looking for performers, please see the details below ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: "I Am Frankenstein unearths two creatures who were tortured and abandoned by their makers: Victor’s famous monster, and the teenage writer Mary Shelley herself. A highly theatrical retelling of Shelley's classic, the play adds two principal characters: a haunting chorus known as The Blackbirds, and the troubled Mary Shelley, the story’s creative force. Victor, a promising student obsessed with alchemy, reanimates human life in the basement laboratory of a vacationing professor, only to abandon his creature and allow it to slowly exact revenge... " (Stage Partners) Additional info: Rehearsals: Tuesday-Thursday 6:30-9:30pm, Saturdays 10am-4pm August 12 - October 2nd (August 12 - 14, 16, 19 - 21, 26 - 28, Sep 2 - 4, 6, 9 - 11, 16 - 18, 23 - 25, 28 - Oct 2. Option for Pick-up Rehearsals on Oct 7 or 8; Oct 14 or 15) Performances: Thursday-Saturday 7:30pm curtain; Sunday 2pm curtain: Oct 3-5, 9-12, 16-19 If interested, please apply
13 roles
Powerfully build. Strong enough to carry the actor playing Victor. Emotionally raw and underdeveloped, highly intelligent, with a supernatural gift for imitation and language acquisition., The “man in storm” in the first scene is played by the same actor.
Student of alchemy, chemistry. A young man in a hurry, willing to break rules to achieve greatness.
Victor’s cousin, raised as his sister within the same household. Kind and loving, discerning, and moral.
MOTHER. She is Mary Goodwin and the eventual Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein. She is an empath who is dark-natured, deeply affected by her mother’s death, and eager to prove her greatness as a writer and exorcise her own demons in the process
Best friend of Victor, admirer of ELIZABETH. Noble, conscientious, good-natured and funny.
English sea explorer in the arctic. Admires Victor’s adventurousness and desires fame and fortune.
French chemistry professor. Eccentric, acerbic, judgemental, intellectually superior, witty.
Writer Lord Byron. Egotistical, confident genius who is something of a misogynist and an antagonist of Mary.
Victor’s father and Elizabeth’s adoptive father
The writer Percy Shelley. In a relationship with with Mary, though he is married to another woman. A weak defender of his lover, and a man who takes a back seat to Byron.
Corsican maid. Nurturing earth mother. Could also be member of the Blackbirds but should not be doubled with Mary.
Either, British,
Either, British,