Auditions: Male Actor for Albatross at Sea by Leegrid Stevens, Blue Theatre, March 27

**Audition Notice** Seeking: (1) Man between the ages of 18 and 35. Experience with Viewpoints, Le Coq training, or some equivalent physical theatre background preferred.Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend. Equity contracts available under AEA Umbrella contract.All non union actors are paid.

Albatross at Sea by Leegrid Stevens, directed by Blue Theatre Producing Artistic Director Jen Gravenstein Run Time: 1 hr Synopsis: Strange experimental play

Characters: Y: Woman (already cast) & Plug Afloat Anchor: Man

Auditions: Tuesday, March 27th Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale (click for map). Callbacks: Wednesday, March 28th To set up a audition time, email Jenny@BlueTheatre.com

Sides will be emailed to you when you schedule your audition time. Please also bring only one copy of your headshot and resume. Be prepared to move.

Albatross at Sea will run 8 performances at the Blue Theatre SecondStage Studio, May 2012. Rehearsals will begin in late April.

Measure for Measure, Austin Shakespeare at the Rollins Theatre, Spetember 10 - 27

Austin Shakespeare's Measure for Measure can offer you a good time. It has a dramatic intrigue, lots of clowning, a clever time-warp setting in Savannah, Georgia of the 1920s and a cast that I'd be happy to put up against any other American Shakespeare company out there.

At the same time that he's entertaining us, Shakespeare is working some much deeper themes. These include the responsibility of authority; chastity, promiscuity, desire and disease; the role of the state in policing behavior; the arrogance of office and the equally reprehensible pride that may attend self-righteous virtue.

Summarizing all in a lengthy phrase, Measure for Measure deals with the folly of the pursuit of fleeting pleasure and the difficulty of making virtuous preparation for inevitable death.

Pretty crunchy stuff.

You don't have to take it that way, of course. The highly positive comments posted to date at NowPlayingAustin are all over the place, but each of the five ratings is for the maximum five stars.

Director Ann Ciccolella and the cast substitute Savannah for the Shakespeare's Vienna, which was imaginary, in any case, and their molasses Georgia accents give the words of this generally unfamiliar text further exotic tang. For that double distilled concoction -- Elizabethan text to Savannah speech -- you can expect your inner ear to take longer than usual to tune in. The clear diction of their wondrous speech helps.

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