There will be an initial casting call on Monday, March 19, 2007 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. in the Graduate Acting Studio at the UT Health and Physical Education Building (HPER) for the reading of the play INSIGNIFICANCE directed by David Keith.
The Reading will take place on Sunday, April 29, 2007, at 7 p.m. in UT’s Carousel Theatre. Rehearsals for the Reading will be Thursday, April 26, Friday, April 27, Saturday, April 28 – times to be determined. Actors involved in other productions with evening performances may be able fit the INSIGNIFICANCE rehearsals and Reading into their schedules as rehearsals may take place during the day.
The parts called for are The Professor (Albert Einstein); The Actress (Marilyn Monroe); The Senator (Sen. Joe McCarthy); The Ballplayer (Joe DiMaggio); and The Heavy (Tall, dark mobster type, probably CIA).
David Keith will be looking for people who possess the very particular physical attributes of the above famous people. If they are not just like those people, they should at least represent those attributes: the cerebral, the sexual, the miserably evil and the physical.
Actors should come to the initial casting call looking as much like these characters as possible. It is not necessary to prepare a monologue. Those who fit the description will be called back for a second audition on Monday, March 26, 2007, from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., also in the Graduate Acting Studio in the HPER Building. At that time they will read from the play script.
If you plan to audition, please respond to Kim Midkiff at kmidkiff@utk.edu.