What: Seeking a few additional actors for "Jerusalem" by Jez Butterworth
Roles:
Marky: 6-8 year old boy. Two scenes, around 4 lines to be memorized. Mostly non-speaking. Limited rehearsals. Must be available for entire run of show.
Village enforcers: 2 males - non-speaking- between the ages of 18-35. 1 scene Act III (Will also appear as "ravers" at the top of the show). Must be available Tech week Sat. April 24th (all day) through April 28th (evenings) and the run of the show Friday, Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 2pm April 28th through May 21st.
"Ravers": Non speaking ages 15-30. Ravers for the party at the top of the show. Must be available Tech week Sat. April 24th (all day) through April 28th (evenings) and the run of the show Friday, Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 2pmApril 28th through May 21st. "Ravers" will be dismissed after their scene at the top of the show each night and during evening tech rehearsals.
All roles will receive a small stipend. All actors must be available for the entire run of the show.
Why: Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz
"...that's the deepest level of the play... the desire to stay when we know we have to go or the desire to go when we know we have to stay." -Mark Rylance on "Jerusalem"
"Wishing to remain at a point where he has to move on to another state, I think, is where the play lives." - Jez Butterworth
Wiltshire, England. On St. George's Day, the morning of the local county fair (deriving its sense of place & community from the annual carnival week at Pewsey, Wiltshire) Johnny "Rooster" Byron, local waster & modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, while his son, Marky, wants his dad to take him to the fair, Troy Whitworth wants to give him a serious kicking and a motley crew of mates want his ample supply of drugs and alcohol. The play makes frequent allusions to Blake's eponymous poem from which its title is derived.