Auditions Notice!
Pangea World Theater and Teatro del Pueblo announce auditions for two productions this season!
AUDITIONS will be held FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th from 5-8pm and SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th from 11am-3pm (in ten minute time slots) at the Pangea World Theater Studio, 711 West Lake Street, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55408.
Please call or email for an appointment: 612-822-0015 x1 or katie@pangeaworldtheater.org. (Please leave a message with desired audition time.)
Please prepare one classical and one contemporary monologue for a total of up to 3 minutes. Optional: Include an additional movement piece in that 3 minutes.
Curiosities by Heid Erdrich (produced by Pangea World Theater) will run November 18-21, 2010 at Intermedia Arts, with rehearsals beginning October 25.
Oedipus el Rey by Luis Alfaro (co-produced by Pangea World Theater and Teatro del Pueblo) will run March 10-27, 2011 with rehearsals beginning January 24, 2011.
Both productions will be directed by Dipankar Mukherjee.
About “Curiosities”, by Heid Erdrich: Written in 2005 and 1845, Curiosities is a play in two centuries: the nineteenth and twenty-first. The main character’s lines are composed of the actual words that Mangwudaws, an Ojibwe man, wrote about his visit to Europe in the 1840’s. Other characters are Native American artists and dancers trying to start a troupe to tour Europe. The American painter George Catlin has role as does a contemporary American Indian visual artist who is reversing Catlin’s images by painting the non-Indians s/he sees. All characters interchange with characters in the 1840’s. The play features dance, painting, Ojibwe Hymn singing, contemporary and traditional American Indian music and multi-media images to show how much the images of 200 years ago haunt us today. Finally, the play is about the search to honor the Ojibwe men and women who died in Europe while traveling as “curiosities” on display.
About “Oedipus el Rey”, by Luis Alfaro: Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater once again join forces to bring you the Latino version of the timeless story of betrayal and incestuous love Oedipus el Rey written by Luis Alfaro the 1997 winner of the a Macarthur Genius award in Playwriting. Set in a prison in east LA, this regional premier production is sure to bring about an animated discussion on the social imbalances that has lead to the high incarceration rates facing the Latino community today.
