Surrey’s Royal Canadian Theatre Company is holding auditions for its inaugural One-Act Play Festival, to be held in May.
Needed are six males between the ages of 18 and 45 (some double casting possible), one female in her mid 20s or 30s and crew members.
Director Lorne Seifred will be putting together two plays — Line by Israel Horovitz and Correct Address by Judd Silverman.
Line follows the story of a group of unacquainted people who, one by one, come together to form a line for some unnamed upcoming event. The first to arrive is a burly, beer-drinking, sweat-shirted middle American; then an alienated, voluble, Mozart-loving youth; a taciturn type who brings his own folding stool; and, finally, a shapely, promiscuous girl and her spineless, older husband. Gradually inexorably, the struggle for first place begins, and as they lie, cheat, wrestle and push to gain the lead spot an extraordinary panorama of human frailty is made explosively and hilariously real. As, in the end, are the deviousness, the competitiveness, and the pettiness of the small, wasting battles with which we litter our lives.
Correct Address follows the story of a young man in a stripped apartment, who is packing his lover’s memorabilia to send home to his mother. Suddenly a friend appears. They had quarreled over telling the mother about them, but she didn’t have to be told. She wouldn’t let her son’s lover come to the funeral, and the two men weep together.
Auditions will be held at the company’s studio, 10660 City Parkway, Surrey, on Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 3 at 5 p.m. This will be a cold read. Actors are welcome to bring resumes, however they are not required. For more, visit rctheatreco.com.
RCTC will sponsor up to 12 one-act plays to be presented at the studio on May 5, 12 and 19, 2018, the company says on its website.
The festival is open to all and free to enter, with a deadline for submissions of March 30.
Plays need not be original work but should last 45 minutes or less.
“RCTC will provide performance space, basic tech, marketing assistance, and house staff for performance,” the company says on its website. “Submitter agrees to provide the script, cast, crew, sets, props, costumes. Adjudication is by RCTC and all decisions are final. Written critique of unsuccessful plays available on request.”
Also, the company, in collaboration with the Calendrier francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, will be presenting a francophone night during the One Act Festival on May 12. Artists are invited to submit their work in French, respecting the criteria above. Deadline for submissions is March 30.
Meanwhile, RCTC is prepping its production of the comedy Funny Money for a tour of theatres in Surrey, Vancouver and New Westminster. Dates at Surrey Arts Centre are March 16 and 17, with shows at Vancouver’s Metro Theatre from March 22 to 24 and at New West’s Anvil Centre from April 5 to 7.
In Funny Money, “a mild mannered man, living somewhere in the Lower Mainland, comes home with a briefcase full of money that he accidentally picked up on SkyTrain, and then tries to skip the country to avoid the cops and the bad guys who now have his briefcase by mistake. Crooked cops, threatening phone calls, an impatient cab driver and more mistaken identities than you can keep track of make this one of the funniest plays ever written.”
Also, the company will hosts its annual Oscar Party this Sunday, March 4 at Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel.
Black Press