Arts & Entertainment
Audition for Marblehead Little Theatre's From Silence
Written by Marblehead playwright Anne Lucas, this show has already had an off Broadway run!
Marblehead Little Theater announces the non-equity auditions for “FROM SILENCE” a play by Anne Marilyn Lucas, directed by John Fogle.
This is a non-equity production. Equity actors interested in auditioning will need to obtain a waiver from Actor’s Equity Guild.
AUDITIONS:
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June 26 6:00pm – 10:45pm
June 27 6:00pm – 10:45pm
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Walk in’s will be auditioned as time allows.
Call-backs on June 28 at 7:00pm
PERFORMANCES: October 13-22, 2017
TO SCHEDULE AN AUDITION:
Visit www.MLTLive.org and select “From Silence” Audition
Actors should prepare a 2-minute monolog, comic or dramatic. Actors who also dance may perform a 2-minute dance piece as their audition. Additional cold-readings will be conducted from the script.
Casting will be announced by July 2. Rehearsals will begin after the July 4th holiday, Sundays at 2pm and two weeknights at 7pm. There will be no rehearsals during the month of August. Exact schedule will be worked out with the cast.
9-12 WOMEN ROLES: MAY BE DOUBLED
ROLES AGE RANGE
Esther Gold 79 Holocaust survivor
Adult Esther 42 New Jersey housewife, inner voice
Young Esther 10-12 Ravensbrück prisoner, inner voice
Deborah: 42 Esther’s daughter
Elaina: 11-13 Esther’s grand daughter
Erika: 43 Ravensbrück political prisoner
Young Deborah 12-14 Deborah as a child
Maria Sofia 14-20 Ravensbrück prisoner
Lynda Fine 45-55 Survivor’s daughter
Marta 30-40 Nazi guard’s granddaughter
Janis Weinstein 40-50 Survivor’s daughter
Hostess: / 2015 Camp 40’s Ravensbrück hostess
SYNOPSIS: Holocaust survivor, Esther’s safe world is turned upside down, when her daughter Deborah rushes home with the news that their New Jersey temple is on lock down, and her grand daughter Elaina is being held inside. During the endless waiting Esther travels back through her memories - seeing the results of her decision to remain silent about the Holocaust and its effect. She re-experiences her years in Ravensbrück and hears her daughter and granddaughter’s unanswered pleas for her story. Deborah and Elaina have been hurt by her silence. Esther comes to understand it is her duty to speak so “her grand daughter’s world will never become like hers.” But will it be too late for Elaina to hear?
