[BATA] Auditions for Sartre's No Exit

[Meredith Hagedorn]

Dragon Productions Presents
NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre 

Auditions: Monday Sept. 13th & Tuesday Sept. 14th -6:30-9:30PM
(Possible call-backs on the 14th)
Location: TBA (mid-peninsula)
Performances: November 4th-21st, Thurs. - Sat. 8pm & Sun. 2pm 
Performance Space:  The Pear Ave. Theatre in Mountain View
Non-AEA Only - Stipends Available

Auditioners are asked to prepare two contrasting monologues (one dramatic, one comic) and will be given a total of 2 minutes to present those pieces. 

Auditioners will be given 5 minute slots. Please call 650-493-2006 or email info@dragonproductions.net for an audition slot.  If you call in, please leave your name (spell it), & your email address & all the details will be emailed to you once the location has been finalized.

DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS 

VALET - Male, 20 - 50.  Polite and enigmatic, the valet shows each of the three characters into the room and provides a surprisingly normal tone in surprisingly abnormal circumstances. 

JOSEPH GARCIN - Male, 30s or 40s.  Middle-class "pacifist" journalist whose facade of solid masculinity is stripped to reveal a cruel and cowardly deserter.  The actor playing this role must be comfortable with the text's language and be able to convey Garcin's macho bravado as well as his deep-seated fear and vulnerability. 

ESTELLE RIGAULT - Female, 20s or early 30s.  A fair-haired, upper-class woman whose brutal, murderous secret belies her seemingly fragile and oh-so-feminine persona.  Estelle is a complicated young woman, delicate and winsome in one moment, cruel and manipulative in the next. 

INEZ SERRANO - [pre-cast] 


Director's Notes:
Forget your idea of Hell.  Imagine just one man and two women in a relatively bare room from which there is no escape.  No flames, no torture racks, no devil.  So what's there to be afraid of?  Jean-Paul Sartre's ingenious one-act play, No Exit, explores philosophical concepts of existence and relationship as the three characters, Garcin, Inez, and Estelle, contemplate why they've been sent to Hell.  What emerges is an intricate web of mental torment, self-deception, and fear.  Written in France during World War II, this tragic-comic story 



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