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AUDITION NOTICE - ACTOR - SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE - TORONTO/NIAGARA, ON
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Production name: ARCADIA
Date production rehearsal/job starts: 10/07/2014
Audition date: 04/17/2014
Deadline to submit: 04/01/2014
Email applications to: bburns at shawfest.com
Contact name: Barry Burns
Contact email: bburns at shawfest.com
Contact phone: 905-468-2153
Engager Website: www.shawfest.com

Ethno-cultural mandate or ethno-cultural casting statement:
The Shaw Festival will be holding one day of auditions, in Toronto, for the role of GUS/AUGUSTUS in Tom Stoppard's 'ARCADIA".

Rehearsing in Niagara on the Lake, October 2014, it will be presented at The Royal Alexandra Theatre, in Toronto, November & December 2014.

Submitters must be 18 years of age or older on the date of contracting.

Please submit electronic or hard copy Head shot & Bio only.

Address is:
10 Queen's Parade
Box 447 Niagara on the Lake ON. L0S 1J0

Only submissions chosen will be offered an audition time.

No phone calls please.


Additional information:
Gus/Augustus    Gender Male     Age range 15   

We are looking for an actor, 18 or older, who can play 15, for the combined roles of GUS/AUGUSTUS in Tom Stoppard's "ARCADIA".

GUS -
The youngest child of an aristocratic family in modern England.
He has not spoken since he was 5 years old. He is shy and sensitive and is probably a genius.

AUGUSTUS -
The youngest child of an aristocratic family in England in 1812.
He is home from boarding school and is very talkative.
While away at school he has become a very entitled and somewhat pompous young man.
He is mischievous and is intent on embarrassing his older sister.

The actor must be able to waltz.
The actor must be able to do an Upper Class British Accent.

Equity members will be seen first at all open audition calls. Artists cast in this production will be engaged under an Equity form of contract. CAEA members: please bring your membership card to the audition.

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