INFERNO Auditions - Thomas Bywater

CASTING CALL: INFERNO!

We would like to invite you to audition for the new play by the Station House : INFERNO.
The positions are now being advertised by Creative Scotland with casting call being held at the end of August in the Aberdeen Arts Centre.

For more information please look at the INFERNO section of our website.

Best of luck to all applicants, and we look forward to hearing from you.

“A stage adaptation of the memoirs of, playwright and alchemist, August Strindberg – Inferno is the latest play by Thomas Bywater (Burrowden).

Now marking the centenary of Strindberg’s death, the play uses fin-de-siècle Paris as backdrop and means to explore the playwright’s most enduring themes. The ‘Inferno Crisis’ was a turning point in his writing, marked by his inexplicable abandonment of wife, child and career in the Stockholm theatres for a life of ignominious toil and chemical experiments. His memoirs reveal a nervous breakdown, culminating in alchemical obsession and attempts at making gold.

We are holding casting calls for the play in the Aberdeen Art Centre, on the 22nd and 24th of August.

We are looking to hire a diverse cast of local talent for this new Scottish play. All aspirations all, levels of experience are welcome to audition. The dates for performance are set as the 25th,26th and 27th October, in Aberdeen’s newly restored Tivoli Theatre.

http://www.thetivolitheatre.com

Rehearsals, starting September, will be 20 hours a week. Fees will be £9.50 – £12.00 per hour.

To apply please return a form complete with a CV/Resume by Sunday the 18th of August, 2013 to media@stationhousebooks.co.uk or by post to INFERNO, 64 Urquhart Road, TOP LEFT, ABERDEEN, AB24 5LX.

An application pack can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.stationhousebooks.co.uk/Projects/Inferno_Casting_Call.pdf “

Male Cast:

August Strindberg (40-60)

At the ripe age of 47, August has inexplicably run away from home,abandoning his family and responsibility.A bleakly charismatic character. His particular brand of pessimism and self righteousness make it difficult to discern madness from genius.

Ingmar Sorenson (20-30)

The elder brother and half of Sorenson and Sorenson Private Investigators inc. He takes the dominant role in most decisions made by the duo. Conceited, incompetent, but harmless.

Oskar Sorenson (20-30)

The other, younger, brother in the investigator’s bureau, Oskar plays more relaxed and submissive role, which often involves playing fall-fellow in problems that arise.

Mephisto (19-30)

Emphatic, lithe and thoroughly untrustworthy. His curious Mephistopholean appearance compliments his name.

Mephisto is an artist and a conman, passing from host to host, he systematically fleeces sitters and patrons alike. His staple income is gaudy iconography, covered with his miraculous gold; a pigment made from cheaper substances, he uses it to extort funds from the Church.

Female Cast:

Mme. Felicity Strindberg (40-60)

Mme. Strindberg is the scorned wife, whom August has usurped in Stockholm. Deeply suspicious of her husband’s motive, her one desire is to have her daughter, Emma, returned to her. Estranged from her husband she will resort to any means to discredit his fatherhood and retrieve Emma from the school he has sent her to.

Emma Strindberg (16-20)

Emma, attends a school in the north of Sweden, where she was sent by August, her Father. She is disarmingly bright and alarmingly fearless. Her education and preparation for the wider world has thus far been taken from the pages of the “best sort of adventure stories”.

Calypso (20-30)

A siren, Calypso is an artists’ model. Ambitious and aspiring she has a fine taste in artists and anyone else who will flatter her image and further her aims. These interests have landed her in some rough company – however she has never come to any harm, as yet.

CASTING CALL: INFERNO!

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