Casting Rachel Carson Speaks
- firstflight2018
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The Environmental Justice Players will be having auditions for actors for the play Rachel Carson Speaks on Saturday, March 7 from 4pm to 6pm and on Sunday, March 8 from 6pm - 9pm at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood (USR), 113 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, New Jersey, 07450.
Rachel Carson Speaks, adapted and directed by Frank Farrell, combines famed ecologist Rachel Carson’s 1963 final lecture: The Pollution of Our Environment with scenes from her life and her personal struggles to write her environmental classic, Silent Spring. With music and sound effects by Ben Masterton.
First Flight is looking for four nonunion actors to play:
Rachel Carson, Age: 55 (also plays herself from ages 12 and up)
Maria Carson (Rachel's Mother) and Marie Rodell (Rachel's Literary Agent) Ages: 40s
Roger (Rachel's Nephew) Age: 4, a Waiter, and William Shawn (Editor of The New Yorker magazine) Age: 55
Dorothy Freeman (Friend of Rachel) Ages: 40s & 50s.
All auditions, rehearsals and performances are at USR.
There are two performances of Rachel Carson Speaks: Friday and Saturday, April 17 & 18 at 7pm. Rehearsals will be on Zoom from March 19 through April 12 and In-Person Rehearsals at USR on Tuesday, April 14 from 6pm to 9pm. Wednesday, April 15 from 6pm to 8pm and Thursday, April 16 from 6pm to 9pm.
If interested in auditioning email frankfarrellproductions@gmail.com. Let us know what half hour works best for you within the times mentioned above. We will get back to you with a specific 10-minute audition slot.
For the audition, please bring your picture and resume and a one-to-two-minute memorized monologue of your choice. Actors cast will be given a stipend of $40.
The Environmental Justice Players is a new theatre company presenting environmentally aware plays to the public. The new play Rachel Carson Speaks will be its first production.
Frank Farrell the adaptor and director of Rachel Carson Speaks is the artistic director of the First Flight Theatre Company, which has performed productions at the Hermitage in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ since 2018.
Following are sides, excerpts from the script, for Rachel Carson Speaks. Choose one side you would like to read at your audition.
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