Festen
Auditions
Saturday 18 March 2017 1:30 pm
FESTEN
Written by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov & Bo Hr.Hansen
In an adaption by David Eldridge, Directed by David Blakey
Presented by arrangement with Nordiska ApS, Copenhagen
At
Stables Theatre
Cnr Arthur St & Main Highway
Ellerslie
Auckland
Map
The Play
Festen is based upon the award winning Danish movie, ‘Festen’ meaning ‘The Celebration’.
It is Helge’s 60th birthday. His wife Else and daughter Helene live at home with Helge, in the family-run hotel and restaurant of a converted castle that Helge ran that has now been transformed into the family home. Christian, their oldest surviving child, has also arrived. The last time that most of family were together was for the funeral of Linda, Christian’s twin sister, who committed suicide a few months earlier. There are other family friends and servants, who will attend the party. Michael, the younger son, who has not been invited, arrives with his wife and little girl. During dinner, Christian makes a speech about his father that brings the celebration to a halt. The guests chose to believe Helge rather than Christian, until Helene makes a discovery.
Contact details
David Blakey
email: davidblakey@gmail.com
telephone: 027 495 3794
Rehearsals
Commence Sunday 2 April 2017, Tuesdays and Thursdays each week from 7.30pm, Sundays from 12.30pm
Tuesday and Thursday evenings - these rehearsals will initially be workshops.
Sundays - these rehearsals will mainly be runs, although some of the early ones will be devoted to character and scene analysis, so all cast will be required.
Season
Thursday 8 to Saturday 17 June 2017 - 10 performances including 2 matinees
About the director
David Blakey directed The Playboy of The Western World at ETS in 2015 and has since directed How To Be Happy at Howick Little Theatre. He has long wanted to stage Festen in Auckland, and is grateful to ETS for taking on this 'difficult' play. With a background in IT and management consulting, David's directing style is highly analytical, and actors can expect to spend most rehearsals working on characters and beats rather than continually running through the play. He also believes that actors' moves should be their own, and that actors should be attentive and work off each other's moves and actions in each performance, so he does not 'block'. If you like this style of directing - or if you would like to experience it - you should audition.
Cast Required
* The ages are only suggestions and should only be treated as guidelines. If you are outside of this age range but feel you are perfect for the role, please come along to audition.
* Most of the actors will be involved in the minor scenic changes.
* Pia, Kim and Lars will serve and clear the table.
* At least two actors will be required to play Little Girl. All of their rehearsals will be on Sunday afternoons until the final week of rehearsals, when they will be required to attend evening rehearsals.
Audition
Actors will be asked to present a monologue of at least 30 seconds from any work. It must be in modern English. Actors may be asked to present their monologues more than once, with different characteristics for their character or reading. You are at liberty to take an existing piece involving more than one character and adapt it to a monologue. Actors may be asked to read together as characters in a scene from Festen. Allowance will be made for cold reading, as this exercise will be to see how you look and sound together.
Characters
Written by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov & Bo Hr.Hansen
In an adaption by David Eldridge, Directed by David Blakey
Presented by arrangement with Nordiska ApS, Copenhagen
At
Stables Theatre
Cnr Arthur St & Main Highway
Ellerslie
Auckland
Map
The Play
Festen is based upon the award winning Danish movie, ‘Festen’ meaning ‘The Celebration’.
It is Helge’s 60th birthday. His wife Else and daughter Helene live at home with Helge, in the family-run hotel and restaurant of a converted castle that Helge ran that has now been transformed into the family home. Christian, their oldest surviving child, has also arrived. The last time that most of family were together was for the funeral of Linda, Christian’s twin sister, who committed suicide a few months earlier. There are other family friends and servants, who will attend the party. Michael, the younger son, who has not been invited, arrives with his wife and little girl. During dinner, Christian makes a speech about his father that brings the celebration to a halt. The guests chose to believe Helge rather than Christian, until Helene makes a discovery.
Contact details
David Blakey
email: davidblakey@gmail.com
telephone: 027 495 3794
Rehearsals
Commence Sunday 2 April 2017, Tuesdays and Thursdays each week from 7.30pm, Sundays from 12.30pm
Tuesday and Thursday evenings - these rehearsals will initially be workshops.
Sundays - these rehearsals will mainly be runs, although some of the early ones will be devoted to character and scene analysis, so all cast will be required.
Season
Thursday 8 to Saturday 17 June 2017 - 10 performances including 2 matinees
About the director
David Blakey directed The Playboy of The Western World at ETS in 2015 and has since directed How To Be Happy at Howick Little Theatre. He has long wanted to stage Festen in Auckland, and is grateful to ETS for taking on this 'difficult' play. With a background in IT and management consulting, David's directing style is highly analytical, and actors can expect to spend most rehearsals working on characters and beats rather than continually running through the play. He also believes that actors' moves should be their own, and that actors should be attentive and work off each other's moves and actions in each performance, so he does not 'block'. If you like this style of directing - or if you would like to experience it - you should audition.
Cast Required
* The ages are only suggestions and should only be treated as guidelines. If you are outside of this age range but feel you are perfect for the role, please come along to audition.
* Most of the actors will be involved in the minor scenic changes.
* Pia, Kim and Lars will serve and clear the table.
* At least two actors will be required to play Little Girl. All of their rehearsals will be on Sunday afternoons until the final week of rehearsals, when they will be required to attend evening rehearsals.
Audition
Actors will be asked to present a monologue of at least 30 seconds from any work. It must be in modern English. Actors may be asked to present their monologues more than once, with different characteristics for their character or reading. You are at liberty to take an existing piece involving more than one character and adapt it to a monologue. Actors may be asked to read together as characters in a scene from Festen. Allowance will be made for cold reading, as this exercise will be to see how you look and sound together.
Characters
No characters are listed for this production.