Seeking Cast for Short Stage Play “The Wyck Cove Bargain”
Actors sought for “The Wyck Cove Bargain” short play. Please see the details provided below. About the project: Auditions for ConfettiFest XXII, the 22nd iteration of annual festival of locally written one acts. Synopsis: The Netherlands, 1643. In a fog-choked cove, the struggling Van Der Meer family is clinging to its small fishing business and its very particular ideas about who belongs at sea. When headstrong, sea-obsessed Cordelia secretly joins a high-stakes voyage, the boat drifts into the territory of an ancient power that does not intend to be plundered quietly. Additional info: Sign-in is at 6:30pm. Auditions begin at at 7:00pm Auditions will consist of monologues and cold readings from the scripts. Actors are asked to prepare a 1-minute monologue of their choice and are allowed to read with script in hand, if needed. Mandatory tech week is September 26 – October 1. Performances will be October 2-4 and 8-11. If you are interested, please apply.
4 roles
A no-nonsense fisherman and head of the Van Der Meer fishing company, a small family business currently competing with the Dutch herring fleets/bigger commercial vessels.
Earnest, good at heart, and deeply strange, with some movement tics - we’d probably say he had a raging case of ADHD today. Forgetful, repeats himself a lot, is a little scared of his dad and wants to please him. Loves his younger sister but finds her too stubborn.
Younger sister to Klaus and daughter to Johan. Does NOT fit into the traditional “train to be a mother and a fisherman’s wife” role expected of her. Loves exploring, wants to learn how to sail, and has a hyperfocused interest in the nature surrounding their little cove. Very good at navigation and remembering facts.
Feminine-presenting. Scary. Ageless. A loner but a lonely one/not by choice. Angry that her friends, the fishes and the birds and the crabs, are being hunted to extinction. Turned mermaid to siren out of desperation.
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