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Actors Group mass tryouts May 20-21 | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Friday, May 2, 2008

Actors Group mass tryouts May 20-21

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

The Actors Group, the intimate Kaka'ako theater, will hold a mass tryout from 6:30 to 9 p.m. May 20-21 for all seven plays of the 2008-09 season.

A total of 45 roles, including one British drama requiring a 12-member cast, need to be cast. Auditions will be at the Yellow Brick Studio, 625 Keawe St.

Those auditioning should prepare two monologues, one serious and one comic, not exceeding 30 seconds to a minute in length. The prepared pieces need not be from the list of upcoming plays. Range and breadth of the actors will be instrumental.

One play calls for an all-Asian cast; two works require African-American actors.

Play dates have not been announced, but the talent call is for these plays:

  • "Inside Out," by Richard Tillotson, directed by Eden-Lee Murray; four men, two women.

  • "Ring of Fire," a play by Nancy Moss; director to be named; three women, two men.

  • "Miso," by Susan Shirwen, directed by Clare Davidson; one boy, one young man, one girl, two men, one woman, one grandmother, all of Asian ethnicity.

  • "The History Boys," by Alan Bennett, directed by Brad Powell; eight young men, three men, one woman.

  • "The Clean House," by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Jacin Harter; four women, one man.

  • "A Lesson Before Dying," by Romulus Linney, directed by Savada Gilmore; four African-American men, one white man, two African-American women.

  • "Blue/Orange," by Joe Penhall, directed by David Farmer; one young African-American man, two men.

    Additionally, tryouts for TAG's next production, one-acts "Reunion," by David Mamet, and "A Kind of Alaska," by Harold Pinter, will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, at the theater.

    Details: Brad Powell, at 373-4472 or e-mail tvnut@hawaii.rr.com.

    For information on the new season plays and character needs, go to www.taghawaii.net/Auditions.html.

    Reach Wayne Harada at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com.

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