Audition & Callbacks for our fall Mainstage play, Iphigenia and Other Daughters by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Jennifer Vellenga, will be held on Thursday, May 3 in Chapman Theatre.
Audition: 6-8pm; reading with a partner from sides, will be posted soon
Callbacks: 8-10pm; movement call and reading sides, as needed
No prepared monologue is necessary, no second day of callbacks.
One hard copy of the play is in Nichols 129, or you can email Shannon Skelton for a copy (sbskelton@ksu.edu).
Please have your list of Fall 2018 conflicts with you to complete a contact/conflict form. Copies of the form are available now in Nichols 129 or you may access it here: Audition-Form-F2018
Production dates in Chapman Theatre are:
Thursday, October 4; Friday, October 5; Saturday, October 6 at 7:30pm
Thursday, October 11; Friday, October 12; Saturday, October 13 at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 14 at 2:30
If you have questions or if your schedule requires an alternate audition time, contact Jennifer Vellenga vellenga@ksu.edu
Character Breakdown (READ THE PLAY.)
From https://www.playscripts.com/play/2099: This three-play cycle is a modern retelling of the fall of the House of Atreus. It follows the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, siblings who are both players in the family tragedy and victims of it. The cycle of blood and vengeance seems inescapable until the final reunion of a lost sister and brother brings the bloody family saga to its mystical and unlikely end.
9 women, 1 man
Iphigenia – a young woman just on the verge of maturity
Clytemnestra – a queen and no mistake
Electra – an extremely problematic woman in her late twenties or early thirties with a passion for justice
Chrysothemis – an enigmatic, cool presence, a few years older than Electra
Orestes – a young man who has seen too much to be young anymore
Chorus – a minimum of five young women, colleagues and contemporaries of Iphigenia