Auditions for The 2004 Undergraduate Directing Project

The 2004 Undergraduate Directing Project

An evening of three short plays.

(performing May 27-29 in Prosser Studio)

Auditions on Sunday, April 4th

Meet at 7pm to hear the directors talk about the plays and sign up for an audition slot. If you can't come until later, email petersej@stanford.edu to sign up for an audition time.

We encourage people of all backgrounds and levels of experience to audition. If you've ever even thought about being on stage, you should check this out. Time committments are minimal compared to most other productions.

The shows are:

"The Boor"

by Anton Chekhov

Directed by James Huffman
(taynt@stanford.edu)

"Eli, The Fanatic"

Adapted by Jamie Poskin from a short story by Philip Roth

Directed by Jamie Poskin
(jposkin@stanford.edu)

"Icarus's Mother"

by Sam Shepard

Directed by Eli Peterson
(petersej@stanford.edu)

"The Boor" is a lesser-known Chekhov one-act comedy. It offers a glimpse into the world of the social elite, and takes on the differences between men and women. This production will be set in the American west, and will use a more modernized version of the text. It requires a female lead, a male lead, and a male support.

"Eli, the Fanatic" : Set in the 1950s in a suburb outside New York City. Ei Peck and his wife Miriam are in the middle of an unstable marriage and are about to have their first child. In the play, Eli, a lawyer, attemtps to reconcile the apprehensions of his reform Jewish community concerning the recently established yeshiva that has moved into their neighborhood. His position as mediator between the yeshiva and the suburb forces him to confront more personal issues of religion and religious orthodoxy in the midst of a "modern," "scientific" world. Looking to cast up to 5 men and 3 women.

"Icarus's Mother": Five friends gather to have a picnic and witness a spectacle. They inhabit a stage-world in which everything has been made just a little strange. Shepard's nearly-but-not-quite-realistic settings and sometimes terse, sometimes effusive language come together in this play to expose and explode ideas about interpersonal relationships, gender, and community in the America of the period (1965). 3 men, 2 women.

For more information about the plays, please email the directors.