<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Mamaí Theatre Company </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">announces Equity and
Non-Equity male/female auditions:</span></b><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><b><br></b></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:14pt"><em><strong>Euripides’<span> </span>MEDEA</strong></em></span></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><strong>Translation by Brendan
Kennelly</strong></span></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Directed by Bernadette
Clemens</span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal"></span></span></strong></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Production dates:
Thursdays-Saturdays @7:30pm, Sundays @2:30pm, <br>
June 13 - 30, 2013</span></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Rehearsal period: evenings and some
weekends, April 29 – June 12</span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p><span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:9pt">and</span></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><em><strong><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:14pt">BOSTON</span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:14pt">
MARRIAGE</span></span></strong></em></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><strong>Written by David Mamet</strong></span></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Directed by Christine
McBurney</span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal"></span></span></strong></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Production dates:
Thursdays-Saturdays @7:30pm, Sundays @2:30pm,<br>
July 18 - August 4, 2013</span></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Rehearsal period: evenings and some
weekends, June 15 – July 17</span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"></span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></span> </p>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><em><font size="3"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AUDITION
DATES</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></u></font></em></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Tuesday, </font><a name="13c48f1fbc86cd23_13c36a81f6744719_13bfd14f236954fd__GoBack"></a><font size="3">Feb.
12th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm by appointment</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Wednesday, Feb. 13th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm by appointment</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Callback dates/times: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sunday & Tuesday, Feb. 24
& 26, 6:00-10:00pm<b> </b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Location: </font></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Ensemble
Theatre, enter at 2843 Washington Blvd. <br>
<span> </span>at corner of Euclid Hts
Blvd & Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><em><font size="3"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AUDITION
PREPARATION</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></u></font></em></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sides will be emailed upon scheduling
an audition appointment. Prepared classical monologues are welcome but not
required. Bring 2 copies of headshot & resume if auditioning for both
season productions. Auditioning actors should be comfortable with dense</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
language, period and comedic style. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please
email </span></font><a href="mailto:clemens.bernadette@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#0000ff" size="3">clemens.bernadette@gmail.com</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3"> and identify the following: </font></span></p>
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<em>your name, AEA /Non-AEA status, whether
you are auditioning for one or both productions, and availability within the
audition dates & times above. </em></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AEA Contracts: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AEA Special Appearance Agreement (Level
I) contracts will be considered for the season. Non-AEA contracts will pay a professional
stipend. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mamaí Theatre Company welcomes non-traditional casting
opportunities.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><em><font size="3"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABOUT THE PLAYS /
CASTING REQUIREMENTS</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></u></font></em></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><em><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MEDEA</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></font></em></p>
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</font><p style="background:white;margin:0.1pt 0in"><span>Our
season opener, Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy of <b><em>MEDEA</em></b>, is the U.S. professional
premiere of Irish literary legend Brendan Kennelly’s translation. In this raw,
reeling rendition conceived by director Bernadette Clemens, Medea’s taboo
crime—the tragic murder of her children—plays out against the backdrop of ‘Corinth’
as a contemporary, wealthy, suburban community. Four principal chorus
members carry much of the staging in the guise of TV newscaster, neighbor,
psychiatrist, local barista, divorce attorneys, EMS workers, and maid. <span> </span>Medea, her estranged husband Jason, their two
children, the household’s tutor, the nanny, and regional men of power and
authority, Creon and Aegeus, round out the company. Medea’s iconic descent into
despair and violent act of revenge has transcended thousands of years,
remaining prevalent in modern times. A dramatic text that has reverberated
through every age of the theatre, the voice of Medea echoes from the dawning of
theatre to the most recent CNN headlines and within every era in between—such
as in William Congreve’s 1697 <em>The Mourning
Bride</em>: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor
hell a fury like a woman scorned."</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Six women, three men,
two children: </font></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">MEDEA, 30’s-40’s female, a once powerful woman<span> </span>transplanted to husband Jason’s community,
abandoned by him after ten years making a new life together in a new town, betrayed
by his affair with Creon’s daughter, overwhelmed by despair and rage, seeks
revenge </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">NURSE, 50’s-70’s female, Medea’s nanny to her two
children, lives in Medea’s household.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">TEACHER / AEGEUS, 30’s-50’s male, tutor to Medea’s
children. Double cast as Aegeus, ‘King of Athens’, powerful authority of a
neighboring town, sympathetic to Medea and eventually re-married to her after
she murders her children and flees ‘Corinth’</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CAST</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span> </span>- CREON, 60’s-70’s male, ‘King of Corinth’, powerful
authority in the town where Jason and Medea have made their home of the last
ten years, father to the young woman Glauce, for whom Jason has abandoned Medea
and his two children<b></b></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">JASON, 30’s-40’s male, a successful and celebrated man
(‘Jason of the Argonauts’, winner of the Golden Fleece), who has recently left
his wife Medea and their two children for a younger woman, the daughter of
Creon
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">CHORUS A, 30’s-40’s female, portrays Medea’s neighbor,
divorce attorney, and EMS worker</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">CHORUS B, 30’s-50’s female, portrays a reappearing TV
newscaster / reporter</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">CHORUS C, 20’s female, portrays a local barista and
Medea’s maid</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">CHORUS D, 40’s-50’s female, portrays Medea’s
psychiatrist, 2</font><font><sup>nd</sup></font><font size="3"> divorce attorney, and EMS worker</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CAST</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span> </span>- CHILD 1 & CHILD 2, ages 7-10, Medea’s
and Jason’s two children </span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><em>BOSTON
MARRIAGE</em></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Our second production, </font><font size="3"><b><em>BOSTON MARRIAGE</em></b><span>, is the Cleveland professional premiere of </span>David
Mamet’s answer to his critics’ charge that he “can’t write women.” In this
Wildean romp set in the late 19</font><font><sup>th</sup></font><font size="3">-Century, Mamet dives beneath
petticoats and protocols -- examining the personal and political, turning his
gaze on female agency in the world and female sexuality at home. </font></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">One
of America's most revered and provocative dramatists, David Mamet conquers new
territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.
Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming ladies of fashion who have long
lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the
mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and
an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young
lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation. As
the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Anna’s hapless parlor
maid, Claire’s young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts
the valuable emerald at risk and threatens the women’s future.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">Three women:</font></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">ANNA – 30’s-50’s, witty, sharp, glamorous but a slightly
fading beauty. Shrewd, calculating, attractive, upper middle-class woman of
fashion. Master of language and wicked banter. Will stop at nothing to hang on
to her lover, a character akin to Margo Channing in </font><font size="3"><em>All About Eve.<br></em>
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CLAIRE – 30’s-40’s, a bit younger than Anna, also witty, sharp, glamorous.
Anna’s fickle, sexy companion, not quite ready to settle down. An embodiment of
the combination of straight-backed social refinement and predatory lust. <br>
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<span>CATHERINE – 20’s, Scottish m</span>aid,
slightly frumpy but determined. Accused of being an Irish peasant and abused
mercilessly by Anna and Claire. Ability to do or learn a Scottish dialect is a
must.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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2013 Ensemble Theatre Summer Space Grant.</font></em></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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