IN CASE YOU MISSED IT over the holidays, there are still a few days to submit your headshot and résumé to be considered for an audition for the final production in Alumnae Theatre Company’s season – the April show, Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, directed by Ali Joy Richardson. Deadline to submit is 5pm on Sunday, January 8. 
The Clean House, a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, takes place in the home of married doctors whose young Brazilian cleaning lady is fixated on creating the perfect joke. Their strict household unravels when the husband falls in love with one of his patients.
A fast-paced, fearlessly honest, and wildly funny look at class, comedy and the nature of love.
AUDITION DETAILS:
Please submit your headshot and résumé, with a cover note detailing which audition slot(s) you are available for. Also specify your union status, and whether you are a member of Alumnae Theatre Company.
In the subject line of your email, please include the character you’d like to audition for.
Please read the play before auditioning. Reading copies are available at the 5th floor Performing Arts desk of the Toronto Reference Library.
Sides from the script will be provided to those selected to audition. We would also ask that those auditioning prepare a short joke, in any language.
Audition Slot 1: Saturday January 14: 7pm – 10pm
Audition Slot 2: Sunday January 15: 10am – 1pm
Audition Slot 3: Sunday January 15: 2pm – 5pm
Audition Slot 4: Monday January 16: 7pm-10pm.
Callbacks: Sunday January 22
Deadline to submit: Sunday January 8th, 2017 at 5pm.
Email applications to: alum.cleanhouse@gmail.com
Contact name: Laura Jabalee Johnston
ROLES:
LANE – F, early 50s. An important doctor. She wears white. Extremely smart, extremely driven, not extremely happy.
MATILDE – F, late 20s. Brazilian. Lane’s cleaning lady. She wears black. She has a refined sense of deadpan. She is confident and wryly matter of fact about the dark parts of life.
***Note: Actor must be able to speak basic Portuguese and speak English with a Brazilian accent.
VIRGINIA – F, 50s. Lane’s older sister. She loves cleaning. Could have been someone important. Hides her disappointment. Tries her best and treats others well, even if they hurt her.
CHARLES – M, 50s. Lane’s husband. A compassionate surgeon. He is child-like underneath his white coat. Deeply in love in Ana. Wants to save the day.
ANA – F, 60+. She is Argentinean. She is impossibly charismatic. Deeply in love with Charles. She is dying and embracing it. She knows herself.
***Note: Actor must be able to deliver text in Spanish
Rehearsals begin late February, part-time schedule.
Venue for auditions, most rehearsals, and the performance (April 7 – 22) is Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St, Toronto.
Please note this is a non-union and non-paying engagement.
Equity and diversity are factored into every casting decision at Alumnae Theatre Company. We encourage and welcome submissions from artists of all genders, ethnicities, and abilities. We would like to thank all applicants for their submissions, but will only contact those applicants to whom we are able to offer an audition.
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