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Local AEA & Non-Union Auditions: Prayer for the French Republic
PTC Announces Local AEA and Non-Union Auditions for Prayer for the French Republic
Prayer for the French Republic
by Joshua Harmon
Directed byKaren Azenberg
September 30 – October 25, 2024 (Rehearsals)
October 25 – November 9, 2024 (Performances)
In 2016, a curious American student named Molly seeks to connect with her family in France. When her cousin becomes the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, Molly’s uncle Charles—who immigrated from Algeria—decides to move to Israel. This earns the dismay of Molly’s anti-Zionist uncle Patrick, all set against the growing threat of political extremism in France.
Rehearsals run:
Monday – Saturday: Up to eight hours daily (with a break) between the hours of 10:00AM and 8:00PM
Additional hours will be added for Technical Rehearsals beginning October 18.
This audition is for local Actors.
Out of town actors may submit to Chad Murnane Casting for New York auditions, scheduled for July 11 and 12.
Audition Information
- Actors must audition in-person, Monday, July 15.
- 3:00-4:00 PM (AEA Members ONLY)
- 4:00-6:00 PM (Non-Union).
- Call backs are by invitation only and will be held in-person, Tuesday, July 16. Times: TBA
- Audition Location:
Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre
300 South 1400 East, Room 245
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 - To audition for a specific role, please use the sides provided below.
Sides:
Audition Sign-up
Sign-up opens Monday, July 8 at 9:00 AM.
AEA MEMBERS ONLY:
NON-UNION ACTORS: (Non-union actors may only sign-up between 4:00 – 6:00 PM.)
Cast Breakdown for Prayer for the French Republic
All roles listed in character breakdown below are available.
Pioneer Theatre Company isseeking all races, ethnicities, body types, gender identities, actors with disabilities, and actors of all ages for roles in this production.
In reference to the character descriptions below- most characters we encounter currently are written with man/woman, he/him, or she/her pronouns and you will see that in the following descriptions. However, limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be as inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with.
MARCELLE: Mid 50s-early 60s. Female-identifying. A doctor. A mother. Very French. Jewish. Has a solid sense of her identity and place in the world. She has recently achieved the status she’s worked her whole career for. A forceful personality. She runs the show and does not suffer fools.
CHARLES: Mid 50s-early 60s. Male-identifying. French-Algerian. Marcelle’s husband. Also a doctor. A father. An Algerian Jew who has lived in France since his family fled Algeria when he was 6. Even keeled and kind. Urbane. Thoughtful and solid. A man who knows from experience how bad things can get, and while he doesn’t live in fear, he lives with that awareness.
ELODIE: Late 20s. Female-identifying. French-Algerian. Marcelle and Charles’s daughter. Opinionated, out-spoken, sarcastic, combative. Very smart, very funny. Quite depressed. Lives with her parents.
DANIEL: mid-late 20s. Male-identifying. French-Algerian. Marcelle and Charles’s son. A teacher in a Jewish school. He has, in recent years, steadily become more religious than the rest of his family. Sexy in an unassuming way. A bit of an introvert who feels things strongly. Easy to like. Piano skills a plus.
PATRICK: Mid 50s-early 60s. Male-identifying. Marcelle’s brother. Our narrator. An entirely secular Jew. To the point where he thinks religion, in general, is nonsense. Wry, ironic, and charming. As outspoken as his sister and quite certain of his views. Piano skills a plus.
ADOLPHE / PIERRE: 60s-70s. Male-identifying. Adolphe is Pierre’s grandfather. A Jewish father who survived WWII in his apartment with his wife, not knowing the fate of any of their children. A quiet man, perceptive and kind, and skilled at navigating and soothing his wife’s distress. / Pierre is Marcelle and Patrick’s father. The last of many generations to run the family’s piano store. A Holocaust survivor. The pain of his memories is kept in check by unflagging pragmatism, his belief in the primacy of family, and the familiarity of the piano store.
IRMA: 60s-70s. Female-identifying. Pierre’s grandmother. Unsentimental, very French. A Jewish mother who survived WWII in her apartment with her husband, not knowing the fate of any of their children. Suppressing her worry and despair costs her, but she manages it.
LUCIEN: 40ish. Male-identifying. Irma & Adolphe’s son. A Holocaust survivor. Shattered and shell-shocked by his experience in the camp, of course. But also dazed to be back in the world. Putting one foot in front of the other every day, for his son’s sake. His son is his tether to life and a future and a belief that goodness still exists. Stillness on the surface; tumult underneath. Piano skills a plus.
