| Long Wharf Theatre News Release Steven Scarpa, Public Relations Manager 203-772-8255 / steven.scarpa@longwharf.org Date: August 26, 2008 LONG WHARF THEATRE SEEKS YOUNG LOCAL ACTORS FOR 2 PRODUCTIONS NEW HAVEN - Long Wharf Theatre is currently casting for the world premiere productions of A Civil War Christmas, by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau; and Coming Home by Athol Fugard directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein.
Local female actors of African-American descent between the ages of 6 and 11 will be considered for the role of Jessa in A Civil War Christmas. Local male actors between the ages of 5 and 11 will be considered for the role of Mannetjie Jonkers in Coming Home. Especially seeking brothers, as the two young actors will be playing the same character at different ages. A Civil War Christmas will open on Wednesday, December 3, and run through Sunday, December 21. Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, October 21, and the first preview will be Wednesday, November 26. There will be a two-day tech rehearsal, followed by five previews with rehearsals during the day. The local actors will remain non-Equity and will be paid a travel stipend of $100 - $200/wk. Coming Home will open on Wednesday, January 21, 2009, and run through Sunday, February 8. Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, December 9, 2008, and the first preview will be Wednesday, January 14, 2009. There will be a two-day tech rehearsal, followed by five previews with rehearsals during the day. The local actors will remain non-Equity and will be paid a travel stipend of $100 - $200/wk. Auditions will be held at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, on Saturday, September 20, 2008, from 10 am to 1pm with callbacks to follow. Please submit photo, contact info and resume to: "ATTN: CASTING - CWC & COMING HOME"
Actors will be contacted for an appointment. Contact T. Paul Lowry, Associate Producer, with questions at 203-772-8212. ABOUT A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS It’s 1864, and Washington, D.C. settles down to the coldest Christmas Eve in years - in the White House, where President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their gift-giving; on the banks of the Potomac, where a young rebel challenges a Union blacksmith’s mercy; and in the alleys downtown, where an escaped slave loses her daughter just before finding freedom. This new musical by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel intertwines many lives showing us that the gladness of one’s heart is the best gift of all. “Ms. Vogel has a gift for sustaining humor and pathos at the same time, without trivializing either emotion.” - The New York Times ABOUT COMING HOME Veronica left her grandfather's farm as a teenager to chase a singing career in Cape Town. Shortly after his death, Veronica returns home with her child, a deferred dream and the secret of her illness. With her childhood friend Alfred, Veronica and her son strike up a makeshift family. Alfred's revelation of his own secret threatens to destroy the uneasy arrangement when Veronica needs it most, but Athol Fugard's inspirational resolution reveals a legacy of hope - the seeds of which each generation plants in its children. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Athol Fugard - described by Time Magazine as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" - has devoted his entire career to chronicling the joys and struggles of his native South Africa. Thirty-five years ago Fugard's monumental collaboration (with John Kani and Winston Ntshona) Sizwe Banzi Is Dead made its American premiere at Long Wharf Theatre. He returns now with his first world premiere in the United States since 2001's Sorrows And Rejoicings.
# # # LONG WHARF THEATRE, founded in 1965, is recognized as a leader in American theater, producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classics and modern plays, rediscoveries of neglected works and a variety of world and American premieres. More than 30 Long Wharf productions have transferred virtually intact to Broadway or off-Broadway, including the 2005 production of BFE by Julia Cho, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Wit by Margaret Edson, The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer, and The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn. Long Wharf has received New York Drama Critics Awards, Obie Awards, the Margo Jefferson Award for Production of New Works, a Special Citation from the Outer Critics Circle, and the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. ~ End of Release ~ Steven Scarpa Close window Long Wharf News Home
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