Casting for the Lead female role! TODAY!
Notes: This is non-paid, non-union theatre work.
Notes: Please be of Mexican decent.
Notes: Bi-lingual Spanish/English
**Rehearsal schedule is intense. Please submit only if you can commit!!!
Rehearsal schedule: Mon.-Fri. 5pm-7pm thru the month of December. (No rehearsal Dec. 24, 24, 31 & Jan. 1)
Performances: Fridays beginning Jan. 8, Jan. 15, Jan., 22, Jan. 29
When: December 4, 2009 @ 5pm in Hollywood. (Address will be provided if selected.)
Submissions: Please submit headshot and resume to shadowofamancasting@yahoo.com
Character: Hortensia (age range 38-45)- The mother, locked into what has become an abusive marriage. Traditional, dutiful wife.
** This character has some very emotional moments with her husband which leads to a bruised eye. Must also be comfortable on stage in conservative bra and undies as this character will have a very dramatic scene in the bathroom (with daughter) following the event with her husband.
Ladies of all sizes encouraged to submit.
Title of Show: SHADOW OF A MAN
Synopsis: The play is set in 1969 in the Rodriguez home, a Mexican family living in Los Angeles. It opens with Lupe, the 12 year old daughter in Catholic schoolgirl uniform, confessing to the bathroom mirror that she is no longer able to tell her secrets to the priest. The circle of women in the play include Lupe’s elder sister, Leticia, a rebellious daughter aggressively seeking change for Chicana women; Rosario, the unwed, non-traditional aunt who speaks her mind into the ears of her young nieces; and Hortensia, the mother locked into what has become an abusive marriage.
The title suggests the omniscient and weighty presence of men in the lives of the female characters. The inevitable outcome leads to what the character Rosario calls a “house full of women, no más,” a place where the women find solace in each other.
The men in the play are dislocated from the family, although their problems loom heavily over the activities of the women.
Submissions: Please submit headshot and resume to shadowofamancasting@yahoo.com
