[KWLT Announce] KWLT Announces Auditions for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Location updated)

[Anita Kilgour]

KWLT would like to announce

AUDITIONS
AND
PRODUCTION CALL

What: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard

Where: Student Life Centre, Room 1115, University of Waterloo

When: January 3-5, 2007, 7pm-10pm

You do not need to show up each night, however we may have call-backs.

Who: We are looking for Actors, Technicians, and Production staff
(publicity, front of house, and general production).  The production
requires both speaking & non-speaking roles.

How: Audition pieces welcome but not necessary. Come in comfortable clothes.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is about ambiguity: ambiguity in
time, place, comprehension, identity.  The two characters, brought
into being within the puzzling universe of the play, by an act of the
playwright's creation, and those they encounter, often confuse their
names, as they have interchangeable yet periodically unique
identities. They are portrayed as two clowns or fools in a world that
is beyond their understanding; they cannot identify any reliable
feature or the significance in words or events. Their own memories are
not reliable or complete and they misunderstand each other as they
stumble through philosophical arguments while not realizing the
implications to themselves. They often state deep philosophical truths
during their nonsensical ramblings, however they depart from these
ideas as quickly as they come to them.

'Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot
of scope for our particular talent.Generally speaking, things have
gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about
as bad as they reasonably get.' -- The Player

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Performances Dates:

March 22-24, 29-31, 2007 at 8pm

Contact: Karen Grierson, Director, arnora.d at gmail.com or Anita
Kilgour, Producer, (519) 502-4736 (cell) or akilgour at gmail.com