OPEN AUDITION CALL FOR OUR SPRING (and Festival) PLAY!!

PRODUCTION DATES:
May 1-4 and May 7-10, 2025 (Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 3 pm). Please note that theatre load in and tech rehearsal for this show is Sunday, April 27, 2025, with technical and dress rehearsals on April 28 and 29, 2025.

PRODUCTION VENUE:
Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam

NOTE: this production is Stage 43’s entry into the Theatre BC Fraser Valley Zone Festival in Tsawwassen in May. Therefore, there will be at least one more performance during the week of May 18-24, 2025. If the show is chosen as Best Production at the zone festival, it will go on to compete in the Theatre BC Mainstage Festival in Fort St. John in early July 2025.

THE PLAY: 
Now 80 years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new lover, Pierre? The thing is, he is still wearing his pajamas, and he can’t find his watch. He is starting to wonder if he’s losing control.

“...hugely rewarding…a play that constantly confounds expectations and works almost like a thriller, with a sinister Pinteresque edge…full of guile, particularly in the way it toys with time, yet is also simplicity itself, and is never tricksy. [THE FATHER] constantly makes you question the truth and the nature of reality…an astonishingly unguarded play about the cruelties of love and the limits of patience, and the way child-parent relationships become inverted as old age creeps up and mugs us.” – The Guardian (UK)

CASTING REQUIREMENTS (3f & 3m):
*Note: the ages of the characters are flexible, and casting will be based on chemistry between actors. Stage 43 welcomes diversity in casting and actors of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities are encouraged to audition!

André – An elderly man with dementia who lives in the same flat (apartment) for more than 30 years
Anne – André’s adult daughter
Laura – A character in the play
Pierre – A character in the play
Man – A character in the play
Woman – A character in the play

Book an audition time through the scheduling app by clicking here https://calendly.com/stage43theatre/auditions-the-father. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before your scheduled audition time to fill in the audition application and review audition sides. If you find yourself unable to keep your booked audition time, please be respectful of others and release your scheduled time through the app.

AUDITION NOTES:           

• Audition will be cold readings from sides; in addition, please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue (monologue does not need to be delivered from memory!).

• Please bring an acting résumé and head shot if you have one or email it to us at info@stage43.org.

• Also, bring a list of dates that you are not available for rehearsals (these will be used to respect everyone’s time and schedule meaningful rehearsals).

• This is a non-Equity production; everyone involved in this production does so on a voluntary basis.

• Successful auditionees will be required to become members of Stage 43 Theatrical Society at the first rehearsal ($20.00 adult / $16 seniors annual membership fee). Since this show is a festival entry, cast and crew must obtain individual Theatre BC Membership ($28 per year) by the time the production opens.

REHEARSALS:
Rehearsals take place on Monday and Wednesday evenings (7 pm to 9:30 pm) and Sunday afternoons (1 pm to 4 pm) beginning in early February 2025.

Stage 43 is an inclusive group. Everyone is welcome to audition for any role they see themselves in. Come out and play with us!