[NEohioPAL] AUDITIONS FOR A WORKSHOP OF SARAH KANE"S 4:48 PSYCHOSIS AT CPT

[Jason Kaufman]

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.
  
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