Theatre and Dance Department Fall & Winter Shows Audition Information Double Show Audition – Wed., Sept 2nd 6-10pm - Magnuson Theatre Wear clothes you can move in and turn in the audition card (attached) along with a headshot and resume taped to the back.

Individual Show Call-backs – Thur., Sept 3rd 6:00 - 7:50p Weaving Our Sisters’ Voices 8:10-10:00p The Book of Hours - Magnuson Theatre The Call-back list will be posted on the Magnuson Theatre door on September 3rd by 1:00p.

Weaving Our Sisters’ Voices A sacred tapestry blended into dance, music, and poetry about women from scripture. Audiences will hear from Vashti, Jochebed, Miriam and ten other amazing women, named and unnamed from Biblical times, as we explore contemporary themes within these ancient stories. This ensemble performance uses the words from Linda Schearing (GU Religion Studies) and music from Bob Spittal (GU Music Dept). Rehearsals: Monday – Thursday 5:00 - 9:00pm in Magnuson Performances: Fridays/Saturdays 7:30 and Sundays 2:00, Jan 29, 30, 31, Feb 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2015. Available Roles: 6-12 female performers. Actors, dancers and combination will be cast. The Book of Hours “I believe in all that has never yet been spoken / I want to free what waits within me / so that what no one has dared to wish for / may for once spring clear / without my contriving.” Gonzaga Theatre & Dance presents an original devised theatrical event created by the ensemble. We will draw from Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours. Written in 1899, when the poet was 23 years old, The Book of Hours remains a startlingly raw and relevant collection of love poems to a God who needs us as much as we need God. Rilke writes as young man desperate to forge his own understanding. He loves. He doubts. He struggles for meaning in an uncertain time. Rehearsals = Monday – Thursday 3:00 - 6:30pm in TDS Performances = Fridays/Saturdays 7:30 and Sundays 2:00, Feb. 4-7 & 11-13, 2015. Available Roles: 12-15 actors, musicians, designers, dancers, and other artists will be cast. Men & Women.

Fill out the following page and bring it to auditions on September 2nd with a headshot and resume stapled to the form. If you have questions about… Weaving Our Sisters’ Voices email Director/Choreographer Suzanne Ostersmith at [email protected] The Book of Hours email Director Charlie Pepiton at [email protected]

Gonzaga University Audition Information Card – Weaving Our Sisters’ Voices & The Book of Hours Date: September 2, 2015 Time: 6:00-10:00p List any musical instruments you play and years of experience. __________________ List any dance and/or movement experience and years. __________________

Name (Last, First) Current Phone

E-mail Address Major

Minor

Year

List any other special skills (dialects, stage Combat, magic, ninja skills, gymnastics etc.) _______________________________________ _______________________________________

Hair Color Vocal Range

PLEASE ATTACH A HEADSHOT AND RESUME.

I am interested in ANY role available. (Please circle) YES NO If no, please elaborate: ___________________ ____________________________________________________

FEEL FREE TO USE THE BACK TO INCLUDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFO.

Are you willing to change your appearance/hair, etc? If you accept a role, do you agree not to alter your appearance without permission?

Production and Important Dates: First Rehearsal for both shows - Monday September 7, 2015 (WSV & The Book of Hours) Performance Dates: October 9-18, 2015 (WSV) February 5-13 (The Book of Hours) List all conflicts with rehearsal and performance schedule. We reserve the right to not excuse absences/conflicts not listed here. Unexcused absences from rehearsal could result in dismissal from the production. All tech rehearsals, shows and strikes are mandatory Regular schedule: Include things like night classes or meetings you are not willing to miss. Time Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm 8 pm 9 pm 10 pm

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Irregular conflicts: List ALL conflicts occurring throughout rehearsal and performance time period. Give date and reason. Include items such as weddings, concerts/performances, sporting events, or school trips that you will be required to attend. Date

Time Span

Reason

Date

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Please choose one of the following three poems. Choose the poem that speaks to you most. You will perform your poem as part of your audition on September 2nd. You may embody and perform the text in any way you choose. You do not necessarily have to be off-book at the audition.

A Flame BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI TRANSLATED BY CLARE CAVANAGH God, give us a long winter and quiet music, and patient mouths, and a little pride—before our age ends. Give us astonishment and a flame, high, bright.

from Without End: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2002 by Adam Zagajewski.

And I Was Alive BY OSIP MANDELSTAM TRANSLATED BY CHRISTIAN WIMAN And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear,
 Myself I stood in the storm of the bird–cherry tree.
 It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self–shattering power,
 And it was all aimed at me. What is this dire delight flowering fleeing always earth?
 What is being? What is truth? Blossoms rupture and rapture the air,
 All hover and hammer,
 Time intensified and time intolerable, sweetness raveling rot. It is now. It is not.

(May 4, 1937) From Stolen Air by Osip Mandelstam, selected and translated by Christian Wiman. Copyright © 2012 by Christian Wiman.

A Mirror BY JEAN FOLLAIN TRANSLATED BY CZESLAW MILOSZ Having gone upstairs on steps of dark oak she finds herself before a mirror with worm-eaten frame she contemplates in it her virgin torso all the countryside is ablaze and gently arrives at her feet a domestic beast as if to remind her of the animal life which conceals in itself also the body of a woman.

From A Book of Luminous Things. Copyright © 1996 by Czeslaw Milosz.