[NEohioPAL] Auditions for "4:48 Psychosis" by Sarah Kane at CPT

Tue Dec 8 13:29:06 PST 2009

Auditions announced for a workshop performance of 

4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane

Directed by Jason Kaufman

4:48 Psychosis was the final work Kane completed before her suicide in
1999 and gives the audience a window into depressed and suicidal
thought. Kane uses what has been described as a "stream of
consciousness" set of lines that lacks much of the structure generally
expected of a script. 

Depression is a prominent theme in the arts. Creative types have long
been struggling both to express anguish in their work and live with the
pain inflicted by life itself. 4:48 PSYCHOSIS is the work of one such
distressed mind, and deals with death, sanity and the reality in which
we live.

looking to cast strong physical actors in the following roles:
25-30 yr. female - large acting range, cold with a sharp wit, disturbed,
artistic, intellectual. 
14-18 yr. female (can cast an older actress but look young). - naive,
hopeful.   
40-55 yr. female - worn from life. 
30-35 yr. male - charming, intelligent, caring psychiatrist. 
60-65 yr. male - old-school therapist, cold, detached, uncaring. 

Also looking to hire a Sound Designer/Technician. Interested parties
should contact the director at jkeklk1 at me.com.

There will be a week of table work in the second week of January.
Rehearsals will then begin the first week of February.  The cast will
work together with the director and sound designer to create the
landscape of the play.  Rehearsals will involve movement along with
text.  The rehearsals will culminate in performances for the public at
the end of February.  A small stipend for actors and designers is
available. Rehearsals and performances will take place at Cleveland
Public Theatre's Parish Hall, 6205 Detroit Avenue.

Auditions will be Wednesday, December 16th and Thursday, December 17th;
7p - 10p, at Cleveland Public Theatre's Parish Hall. Actors are asked to
prepare a contemporary, dramatic monologue (2 minutes max). There will
also be cold readings and actors should be dressed to move. Please bring
one copy of your headshot/resume. No appointments necessary.

Please contact Jason Kaufman with any questions about the auditions or
project at jkeklk1 at me.com. 

Jason Kaufman has an MFA from Harvard University and the Moscow Art
Theatre School.  He has performed in NYC (Playwrights Horizons, Primary
Stages, The Mint and others), regionally (including the last production
on the Adams Memorial Theater Stage at the Williamstown Theatre
Festival) and Europe. He has worked with Robert Woodruff, Andrei Serban,
Anne Bogart, Michael Grief, Peter Sellars, Karin Coonrod, Janos Szasz,
among others. Television and film credits include a contract role on One
Life To Live, guest stars on Dexter, Without A Trace, The Unit, Medium,
CSI: Miami, along with many National Commercials. He has both produced
and directed shows, readings and workshops in NYC. As an acting
instructor, his classes in NYC and LA included Meisner technique, scene
study, Michael Chekov's technique and workshops including "in from first
read to performance" and Viewpoints. 

Mindy Herman

Communications Director

Cleveland Public Theatre

6415 Detroit Ave.

Cleveland, OH  44102

[p] 216.631.2727 x 203

[f]  216.631.2575

mherman at cptonline.org <mailto:mherman at cptonline.org> 

www.cptonline.org <http://www.cptonline.org> 

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