Theater Works will be holding auditions for theArizona Premiere of the intensely dark comedy, All Through the Night, written by Shirley Lauro on February 13th 2012 from 6:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
There are two equity contracts available for this play.
Appointments are required! Please email the Box Office at
boxoffice@theaterworks.org or call at
623.815.7930 to reserve your audition time.
Performance dates are April 13th through May 13th, 2012.
Director: Richard Powers Hardt
Auditioners should have a headshot, resume and prepare a two minute dramatic or tragi-comic monologue for the audition.
Theater Works
8355 West Peoria Avenue
Peoria AZ 85345
All Through the Night is set during and after the Third Reich, a stylistic, surrealistic play inspired by interviews with German Gentile women. The play sweeps from their teen years through adulthood during the Holocaust and beyond. The Nazi Regime impacts the women's lives as they struggle over work, religion, marriage and motherhood. Making overwhelmingly hard choices, they survive or succumb to Hitler's Reign and are changed forever.
Character Breakdowns
Actors (25 - 55 years of age)
Ludmilla(character ages from 17-40s)
A rural German woman, salt-of-the-Earth, she has been a witness to the struggles of the other women and of her country. She is basically good, though she like all the women has been deeply changed by the regime and lives with an inner sadness. She tells the story and must have an intimate relationship with both the audience and the other characters.
Gretchen (character ages from 14-40s)
Pretty and fair, she is very poor and has an innate desire to be recognized first by her peers and then by her government. As the regime takes over, she finds her self selling her soul to the Nazis bit by bit. Her drive to better her situation in life eventually leaves her soulless. This part must be played by an actress who can also sing.
Angelika (character ages from 14-40s)
An optimist and a healer. She is always ethical and is savaged by the regime for her ethics. She is shaken throughout, but through her inner faith and basic sense of what is right, manages to resist the regime with quiet fortitude.
Friederike (character ages from 16-40s)
An aristocrat . A risk taker who begins by seeing the regime as something to work around and later fight against actively. She is passionate and a gives up her wealth and place in society to dissent and strike back against the regime.
Frau Lehrerin, Frau Direktorin, Frau Fuhrerin, Frau Oberraufseherin (30s to 50s) All these parts are played by one actress, all these characters represent a different aspect of the regime. From reluctant acceptance, to opportunism, to embracing the regime and accepting the teachings of the Nazis fully, to the sadist who relishes the opportunity the regime provides her, each character must be a fully realized individual and the part calls for a very versatile actress.
