Audition Dates
31 Jan 2006 – 31 Jan 2006
- Tue 31 January 2006
Details
- Playwright
- Ariel Dorfman
- Director
- Tracee Royall
AddressBROOKMAN ST THEATRE, 7 Brookman Street, KALGOORLIE, W.A. 6430
"Death and the Maiden"
is a dark drama with a cast of three
Written by: Ariel Dorfman
Directed by: Tracee Royall
SIX performance dates:
Thursday March 9
Friday March 10
Saturday March 11
Thursday March 16
Friday March 17
Saturday March 18
Cast required: (Stage ages noted)
Paulina Salas - Around 40 years old
Gerardo Escobar - Her husband, a lawyer, around 45
Roberto Mirganda - A doctor, around 50
Tracee is seeking dedicated actors who are able to devote time to an INTENSE rehearsal period over the next five weeks.
Please also bear in mind, that the play's subject matter is quite *heavy* and it will likely attract an adult rating when shown.
It will also be entered for FINLEY adjudication.
If you're ready for a challenge, lots of lines to learn, some stage combat, high emotion.... and would like to "stretch" your acting skills - then this play's one you should be auditioning for!
Tracee's number is: 0418 900 387
About the play.................
She's got the gun jammed into the fleshy folds of his neck. He's completely powerless - bound to her kitchen chair with nylons and gagged with her panties.
That's how things start to unfold early on in Ariel Dorfman's play "Death and the Maiden". This intense drama poses probing questions about the possibilities of ever finding true justice, or satisfying revenge, for wrongs done.
Dorfman, a Chilean writer who barely escaped alive from the overthrow of Allende's government by General Pinochet's coup in 1973, penned "Death" in 1992. It takes place in an undefined Latin America country that has reverted to a democratic form of government after enduring a military dictatorship for several years. Gerardo, an official appointed to investigate the previous regime's abuses, is given a ride home from his stranded vehicle by a friendly stranger, Dr. Miranda. Gerardo's wife Paulina, a survivor of dictatorship-directed torture and rape, recognizesMiranda's voice and believes him to be the leader of her past tormentors.
Paulina pistol-whips Miranda, ties him up, and gags him despite the disbelieving protests of her husband, who advocates a more reasonable confrontation. She then turns the tables on her former oppressor, interrogating him unmercifully, despite his protests that he has never met her, and is not who she thinks he is. Her ferocious attempt to force a confession from her captive allows Dorfman to delineate with brutal clarity (and explicit language) the mechanics of totalitarian abuses, and to illuminate Paulina's still-tortured soul.
Dorfman maintains tension by keeping things teetering on the edge of explosive violence, in a way that holds the audience hostage as well. Paulina's thirst for vengeance is unquenchable, stalemating her struggle and underlining the seeming impossibility of ever attaining justice.
is a dark drama with a cast of three
Written by: Ariel Dorfman
Directed by: Tracee Royall
SIX performance dates:
Thursday March 9
Friday March 10
Saturday March 11
Thursday March 16
Friday March 17
Saturday March 18
Cast required: (Stage ages noted)
Paulina Salas - Around 40 years old
Gerardo Escobar - Her husband, a lawyer, around 45
Roberto Mirganda - A doctor, around 50
Tracee is seeking dedicated actors who are able to devote time to an INTENSE rehearsal period over the next five weeks.
Please also bear in mind, that the play's subject matter is quite *heavy* and it will likely attract an adult rating when shown.
It will also be entered for FINLEY adjudication.
If you're ready for a challenge, lots of lines to learn, some stage combat, high emotion.... and would like to "stretch" your acting skills - then this play's one you should be auditioning for!
Tracee's number is: 0418 900 387
About the play.................
She's got the gun jammed into the fleshy folds of his neck. He's completely powerless - bound to her kitchen chair with nylons and gagged with her panties.
That's how things start to unfold early on in Ariel Dorfman's play "Death and the Maiden". This intense drama poses probing questions about the possibilities of ever finding true justice, or satisfying revenge, for wrongs done.
Dorfman, a Chilean writer who barely escaped alive from the overthrow of Allende's government by General Pinochet's coup in 1973, penned "Death" in 1992. It takes place in an undefined Latin America country that has reverted to a democratic form of government after enduring a military dictatorship for several years. Gerardo, an official appointed to investigate the previous regime's abuses, is given a ride home from his stranded vehicle by a friendly stranger, Dr. Miranda. Gerardo's wife Paulina, a survivor of dictatorship-directed torture and rape, recognizesMiranda's voice and believes him to be the leader of her past tormentors.
Paulina pistol-whips Miranda, ties him up, and gags him despite the disbelieving protests of her husband, who advocates a more reasonable confrontation. She then turns the tables on her former oppressor, interrogating him unmercifully, despite his protests that he has never met her, and is not who she thinks he is. Her ferocious attempt to force a confession from her captive allows Dorfman to delineate with brutal clarity (and explicit language) the mechanics of totalitarian abuses, and to illuminate Paulina's still-tortured soul.
Dorfman maintains tension by keeping things teetering on the edge of explosive violence, in a way that holds the audience hostage as well. Paulina's thirst for vengeance is unquenchable, stalemating her struggle and underlining the seeming impossibility of ever attaining justice.
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