Theatre on Fire seeks non-equity actors for its Fall production of One for the Road by Harold Pinter and The American Dream by Edward Albee. Auditions will be held on Monday, August 4 from 7-9pm, Tuesday, August 5 from 7-9pm and Sunday August 10 from 4-6pm. Callbacks will be Monday, August 11 from 7-10pm and Tuesday, August 12 from 7-10pm. All auditions will be at the Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill Street, Charlestown.

Seeking:

One for the Road

Nicholas – male, 40s-50s, a torturer

Victor – male, 30s-40s, a political prisoner

Gila – female, 30s-40s, Victor’s wife, also a prisoner

Nicky – male, 7-9, their son, also a prisoner (Note: We will be casting two actors to share this role)

The American Dream

Mommy – female, 40s, June Cleaver on acid

Daddy – male, 40s, Thurston Howell III on prozac

Grandma – female, 60s-70s, the only sane one of the bunch

Mrs. Barker – female, 40s, president of the Lady’s Association

Young Man – male, early 20s, the epitome of good, down-home American looks

Please prepare two contemporary monologues: one comic, one dramatic. Auditionees must also be available for callbacks on August 11 or 12. Actors of all races and ethnicities are encouraged to audition. Performance dates are November 7 – November 22 at the Charlestown Working Theater. All actors will receive modest (read: extremely small) stipends. Some actors may be cast in both plays.

Auditions are by appointment only - to schedule an appointment, email info@theatreonfire.org. Please include your phone number.

Production information:

One for the Road

Named as 1984’s Play of the Year by Drama Magazine, One for the Road is a chilling study of power and powerlessness. Set in an unnamed state, the play presents a disturbing portrait of political horror in which an interrogator torments a tortured prisoner and his wife and child.

“mesmerising, terrifying …a flawless, richly resonant miniature masterpiece.” – The Daily Telegraph

The American Dream

“The play is an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, emasculation, and vacuity; it is a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen.” -- Edward Albee

“Unique…brilliant…a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order.” -- The New Yorker